A simple python script that tweets the external public IP to a private Twitter account. The idea is to create an alternative to dynamic DNS services. In practice you only need the IP of your remote host. The script is going to be run daily by cron. The beauty of Twitter API is that it prevents duplicated message. Thus you will only get a new tw…

tweet_ip.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import tweepy 
import urllib2

CONSUMER_KEY = "<your consumer key>"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "<your consumer secret>"
ACCESS_TOKEN = "<your access token>"
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = "<your access secret>"

def get_external_ip():
    conn = urllib2.urlopen("http://ipinfo.io/ip")
    external_ip = conn.read()
    conn.close()
    return external_ip

if __name__ == "__main__":
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
    auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)

    try:
        API = tweepy.API(auth)
        API.update_status(get_external_ip())
    except tweepy.error.TweepError as error:
        print >> sys.stderr, "Error: %s" % error