ipify API

Code samples

This section contains some common usage patterns from a variety of programming languages. Want something included that isn't listed here? Email us!

Bash

#!/bin/bash

ip=$(curl -s https://api.ipify.org)
echo "My public IP address is: $ip"

NGS (Next Generation Shell)

ip=`curl -s https://api.ipify.org`
echo("My public IP address is: $ip")

Python

# This example requires the requests library be installed.  You can learn more
# about the Requests library here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
from requests import get

ip = get('https://api.ipify.org').text
print('My public IP address is: {}'.format(ip))

Ruby

require "net/http"

ip = Net::HTTP.get(URI("https://api.ipify.org"))
puts "My public IP Address is: " + ip

PHP

<?php
    $ip = file_get_contents('https://api.ipify.org');
    echo "My public IP address is: " . $ip;
?>

Java

try (java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(new java.net.URL("https://api.ipify.org").openStream(), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A")) {
    System.out.println("My current IP address is " + s.next());
} catch (java.io.IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent();
my $ip = $ua->get('https://api.ipify.org')->content;
print 'My public IP address is: '. $ip;

C#

var httpClient = new HttpClient();
var ip = await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://api.ipify.org");
Console.WriteLine($"My public IP address is: {ip}");

VB.NET

Dim httpClient As New System.Net.Http.HttpClient
Dim ip As String = Await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://api.ipify.org")
Console.WriteLine($"My public IP address is: {ip}")

NodeJS

var http = require('http');

http.get({'host': 'api.ipify.org', 'port': 80, 'path': '/'}, function(resp) {
  resp.on('data', function(ip) {
    console.log("My public IP address is: " + ip);
  });
});

Go

package main

import (
        "io/ioutil"
        "net/http"
        "os"
)

func main() {
        res, _ := http.Get("https://api.ipify.org")
        ip, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
        os.Stdout.Write(ip)
}

Racket

(require net/url)

(define ip (port->string (get-pure-port (string->url "https://api.ipify.org"))))
(printf "My public IP address is: ~a" ip)

Lisp

;This example requires the drakma http package installed.
;It can be found here: http://www.weitz.de/drakma

(let ((stream
    (drakma:http-request "https://api.ipify.org" :want-stream t)))
  (let ((public-ip (read-line stream)))
    (format t "My public IP address is: ~A" public-ip)))

Xojo

Dim s As New HTTPSecureSocket
Dim t As String = s.Get("https://api.ipify.org",10)
MsgBox "My public IP Address is: " + t

Scala

val addr = scala.io.Source.fromURL("https://api.ipify.org").mkString
println(s"My public IP address is: $addr")

Javascript

<script type="application/javascript">
  function getIP(json) {
    document.write("My public IP address is: ", json.ip);
  }
</script>

<script type="application/javascript" src="https://api.ipify.org?format=jsonp&callback=getIP"></script>

jQuery

<script type="application/javascript">
  $(function() {
    $.getJSON("https://api.ipify.org?format=jsonp&callback=?",
      function(json) {
        document.write("My public IP address is: ", json.ip);
      }
    );
  });
</script>

C#

using System;
using System.Net;

namespace Ipify.Examples {
    class Program {
        public static void Main (string[] args) {
            WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
            string publicIp = webClient.DownloadString("https://api.ipify.org");
            Console.WriteLine("My public IP Address is: {0}", publicIp);
        }
    }
}

Elixir

:inets.start
{:ok, {_, _, inet_addr}} = :httpc.request('http://api.ipify.org')
:inets.stop

nim

import HttpClient
var ip = newHttpClient().getContent("https://api.ipify.org")
echo("My public IP address is: ", ip)

PowerShell

$ip = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json'
"My public IP address is: $($ip.ip)"

Lua

socket_http = require "http.compat.socket"
body = assert(socket_http.request("https://api.ipify.org"))
print(body)

PureBasic

InitNetwork()
*Buffer = ReceiveHTTPMemory("https://api.ipify.org?format=json")
If *Buffer
  ParseJSON(0, PeekS(*Buffer, MemorySize(*Buffer), #PB_UTF8))
  FreeMemory(*Buffer)
  Debug GetJSONString(GetJSONMember(JSONValue(0), "ip"))
EndIf

LiveCode

put "My public IP address is" && url "https://api.ipify.org"

Objective-C

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.ipify.org/"];
NSString *ipAddress = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
NSLog(@"My public IP address is: %@", ipAddress);

Swift

import Foundation

let url = URL(string: "https://api.ipify.org")

do {
    if let url = url {
        let ipAddress = try String(contentsOf: url)
        print("My public IP address is: " + ipAddress)
    }
} catch let error {
    print(error)
}

Arduino

if (client.connect("api.ipify.org", 80)) {
    Serial.println("connected");
    client.println("GET / HTTP/1.0");
    client.println("Host: api.ipify.org");
    client.println();
} else {
    Serial.println("connection failed");
}

AutoIT

$b = TimerInit()
$Read = InetRead("https://api.ipify.org",1)
$sData = BinaryToString($Read)
MsgBox(64,"Information","Your IP Address: " & $sData & @CRLF & "Elapsed Time: " & StringLeft(TimerDiff($b) / 1000,4) & " seconds.")

SAS language

filename ipresp "%sysfunc(pathname(work))\ipify-response.html";
proc http
url="https://api.ipify.org"
method=GET
out=ipresp
;
run;
data null;
length ip $ 20;
infile ipresp recfm=f lrecl=32000 encoding='utf-8' truncover;
input ip :$20.;
**Create a macro variable "IP" with the ip address: ;
call symput('IP',cats(ip));
**Print the ip address to the log: ;
put 'NOT' 'E: >>>>>>>>>>>> Official IP: ' ip ' <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<';
run;
filename ipresp;