https://mikerossiter.tech/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on Mike's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:04:14 +0100 https://mikerossiter.tech/posts/how-to-view-your-ip-address-in-the-command-line/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:27:19 +0100 https://mikerossiter.tech/posts/how-to-view-your-ip-address-in-the-command-line/ <img src="https://mikerossiter.tech/world.png" alt="Featured image of post How to View Your Public IP Address in the Command Line" /><h1 id="how-to-view-your-public-ip-address-in-the-command-line">How to View Your Public IP Address in the Command Line </h1><p>This is a short post but I discovered a really handy API in a great website: <a class="link" href="https://www.myip.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >MyIP.com</a> No ads either. (<em>Noice!</em>) It shows you your IP and some interesting stats too. I have utilised the API of the website to make this handy command because it isn&rsquo;t often that straightforward and running <code>ip a</code> or <code>ifconfig</code> only shows you the addresses for what is happening locally. So the command I&rsquo;m using is:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span class="line"><span class="cl">curl -s https://api.myip.com | jq .ip | tr -d \&#34; </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Taking this apart, we can run the curl command and return some useful values in json format. Hence the inclusion of the <code>jq</code> parse tool which pulls out only the IP address. Finally the <code>tr</code> tool simply trims off the surrounding quotes which is nicer to look at and might make this command more useful in a script or something. I don&rsquo;t know. Or whatever you want to use it for.</p> <p>So there you go! If this helped you too then you can help me stay awake by <a class="link" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mikerossiter" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >buying me a coffee</a>. Thanks!</p>