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by jjguy 5590 days ago
That's clever and useful. Thanks. I've used http://checkip.dyndns.org for this problem for years, but this is an improvement. Checkip:

    >>> url = urllib2.urlopen("http://checkip.dyndns.org")
    >>> url.read()
    '<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: 192.168.0.1</body></html>\r\n'
Details here: http://www.dyndns.com/developers/checkip.html

It's not as easy to parse as JSON, but nor is it very difficult. The format has not changed in years; I've got a regex running I haven't needed to adjust since day 1.
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electrum 5590 days ago
Try this: http://myip.dnsomatic.com/

Documented here: http://dnsomatic.com/wiki/api#detecting_changes

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callahad 5590 days ago
You could also use: http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp
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pavel_lishin 5590 days ago
What a convenient URL to remember.
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spicyj 5589 days ago
For a while, http://whatismyip.org/ returned your IP in plain text, but no longer.
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