publicaddr 0.19.1

Getting your public IP v4 and v6

What is this?

Simple python module for getting your public IP V4 and V6 from several providers in random mode with also several protocols (DNS, HTTPS and STUN).

Supported providers

IP Checker	HTTPS	STUN	DNS	IPv4	IPv6	Use Policy
google	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
cloudflare	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
openDNS	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
akamai	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
ipify	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	✔️
icanhazip	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	✔️
matrix	❌	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️
framasoft	❌	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️
ifconfig.me	✔️	❌	❌	✔️	✔️

Installation

This module can be installed from pypi website

pip install publicaddr

Lookup for IPv4 and IPv6

Lookup for your public IPs from random providers with DNS or HTTP protocols with 3 retries if no ips are returned. This is the default behaviour of the lookup function.

import publicaddr

publicaddr.lookup()
{'ip4': 'x.x.x.x', 'ip6': 'x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x', 'provider': 'opendns',
'proto': 'dns', 'duration': '0.037'}

Configuration

This module can be configurated with environment variables

Variables	Description
PUBLICADDR_DEBUG	debug mode 1 or 0
PUBLICADDR_TIMEOUT	timeout, default is 2s
PUBLICADDR_RETRIES	retries, default is 3
PUBLICADDR_IPV6_ENABLED	enable ipv6 with 1 or 0 to disable
PUBLICADDR_LOOKUP_HTTPS	lookup with HTTPS protocol (1 or 0 to disable)
PUBLICADDR_LOOKUP_DNS	lookup with DNS protocol (1 or 0 to disable)
PUBLICADDR_LOOKUP_STUN	lookup with STUN protocol (1 or 0 to disable)

Specific lookups

Lookup for public IP with specific protocol

Lookup for your public IPs from random DNS providers with specific protocol.

import publicaddr

publicaddr.lookup(providers=publicaddr.DNS, retries=2)
{'ip4': 'x.x.x.x', 'ip6': 'x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x', 'provider': 'opendns',
'proto': 'dns', 'duration': '0.037'}

Default constants for transport protocol:

• publicaddr.HTTPS
• publicaddr.DNS
• publicaddr.STUN

Get IPv4 or IPv6 only

Get your public IPv4 with default provider (Google with DNS protocol).

import publicaddr

publicaddr.get(ip=publicaddr.IPv4)
{'ip': 'x.x.x.x', 'duration': '0.025'}

Default constants for IP version:

• publicaddr.IPv4
• publicaddr.IPv6

Get IP with specific provider

Example to use the provider Cloudflare instead of the default one.

import publicaddr

myip = publicaddr.get(provider=publicaddr.CLOUDFLARE, proto=publicaddr.DNS)
{'ip': 'x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x', 'duration': '0.020'}

Default constants for providers:

• publicaddr.CLOUDFLARE
• publicaddr.GOOGLE
• publicaddr.OPENDNS
• publicaddr.AKAMAI
• publicaddr.IPIFY
• publicaddr.ICANHAZIP
• publicaddr.MATRIX
• publicaddr.FRAMASOFT
• publicaddr.IFCONFIG_ME

For developpers

Run from source

sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 example.py

Custom configuration

See the default configuration file

Run test units

python3 -m unittest discover tests/