wanip 2025.7.8.4

Determine your WAN IP

Determine your WAN IP, using publicly available providers

Example usage

$ wanip -h
usage: wanip [-h] [-p PROVIDER] [-4] [-v]

Ask a provider for your ip with which you connect to it, then print it out

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p, --provider PROVIDER
                        the provider to contact, instead of pseudo-randomly auto-selecting one from a pre-built
                        internal list (default: None)
  -4, --ipv4            force the usage of IPv4 (default: False)
  -6, --ipv6            force the usage of IPv6 (default: False)
  -v, --verbose         used once: show which provider will be contacted; used twice (or more often):
                        display contactable providers as well (i.e., the pre-built internal list) (default: 0)

Respect the netiquette when contacting the provider.

Installation

The project is on PyPI, so simply run

$ python -m pip install wanip