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Use ifconfig.me to return your IP and Host

Martin Fitzpatrick

• 1 min read

ifconfig.me is a web service that displays information about your connection, including IP address, hostname and User Agent string. Helpfully it provides a simplified interface that can be easily queried to get this information from the command line.

All commands are variations on the below. 

curl ifconfig.me curl ifconfig.me/<request-data>
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The full list is also available on the ifconfig.me website

For example, to get your remote IP address as seen by other users online enter the following at a command line:

curl ifconfig.me

Or

curl ifconfig.me/ip
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curl is a command-line tool for performing http network requests & retrieving data from a specified address or URL

Other commands are variations on this theme such as curl ifconfig.me/host for your remote hostname, or curl ifconfig.me/ua for your User Agent

Note that your User Agent will be that as sent by curl and will differ from that reported when accessing ifconfig.me in your actual browser.

A full set of all the data returnable is available using:

curl ifconfig.me/all