ngrok_api_python.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import json

try:
    # For Python 3.0 and later
    from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:
    # Fall back to Python 2's urllib2
    from urllib2 import urlopen


def get_url(host="127.0.0.1", port="4040"):
    try:
        response = urlopen("http://" + host + ":" + port + "/api/tunnels/command_line")
        data = response.read().decode("utf-8")
        parsed = json.loads(data)
        if 'public_url' in parsed:
            return parsed['public_url']
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
    return None


def get_host():
    url = get_url()
    if url:
        return url.split('://')[1]
    return None