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Get your IP from MaxMind using the requests and bs4 libraries in Python
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ip.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from requests import Session
MAXMIND_URL = 'http://www.maxmind.com/en/locate_my_ip'
def get_ip(sesh):
soup = BeautifulSoup(sesh.get(MAXMIND_URL).content)
return soup.find(id='my-ip-address').text
if __name__ == '__main__':
print get_ip(Session())
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