finds the machine's hostname and external and internal IP address, and logs them to data.sparkfun.com

logIP.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# by David Hay @misterhay
# This script finds the machine's hostname and external and internal IP address, and logs them to data.sparkfun.com
# borrowed some code from http://blog.turningdigital.com/2012/09/get-ip-address-of-raspberry-pi-operating-headlessly/

# edit the next two lines with your values from https://data.sparkfun.com/streams/make
public_key = ''
private_key = ''

import os
import re
import commands
import requests # https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/

# get the hostname
hostname = os.uname()[1]
# on Windows:
'''
import socket
hostname = socket.gethostname()
ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
'''

# get the internal IP address
addresses = []
found_these = re.findall( r'[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+){3}', commands.getoutput("/sbin/ifconfig"))
for ip in found_these:
    if ip.startswith('255') or ip.startswith('127') or ip.endswith('255') or ip.startswith('0'):
        continue # we don't want those sorts of IP addresses
    addresses.append(ip)
internal_address = addresses[0] # we are assuming that we want the first IP address in the created list

# get the external IP address
check_address = requests.get('http://checkip.dyndns.org/').text
start = check_address.find(': ') + 2
end = check_address.find('</body>')
external_address = check_address[start:end]

# push what we've found to data.sparkfun.com
base_url = 'https://data.sparkfun.com/input/'+public_key
payload = {'private_key': private_key, 'hostname':hostname, 'internaladdress': internal_address, 'externaladdress': external_address}
push_url = requests.get(base_url, params=payload)

# print what we've found
print 'hostname:', hostname
print 'internal_address:', internal_address
print 'external_address:', external_address
print 'Logged to https://data.sparkfun.com/streams/'+public_key