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Python Code Snippet to Get External IP Address

15 Oct 2009
Posted by Jeet Sukumaran
UPDATE, 2010-05-09: Corrected to return external IP even when on subnet.

The following function returns the current external ip address: 

import urllib
 
def get_external_ip():
    ip = urllib.urlopen("http://whatismyip.org").read()
    return ip
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It must be wrong.

This function returns Internal IP, not the external one.
Posted by Anonymous on Nov 30th, 2009 at 1:07 pm.

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