Get Public IP address with curl and ipchicken.com

get_public_ip.sh

curl -s https://ipchicken.com | egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}'

Thanks for your script as it provides a nice example of using regular expressions to extract info from HTML. I had to do a curl -sL http://ipchicken.com to follow redirects to make it work and then I realized that ipchicken.com is now using https . The updated script would thus be:

curl -s https://ipchicken.com | egrep -o '([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}'

Thanks. I updated my original with https

Perfect!

This is great, thank you!

This gist is cool because it demonstrates some simple web scraping that can be accomplished using egrep. In practice, I would probably use the following if I were seeking to fetch my public IP address in a shell script:

# show public IP
curl -s ifconfig.me

# use inside a variable
my_ip=$(curl -s ifconfig.me)
echo "My public IP address: $my_ip"

if you don't have egrep installed or don't wanna deal with grep in general, you can do this;

curl ipaddress.ai

wget can also be used;

wget -qO- ipaddress.ai

or visit ipaddress.ai