A tool for fetching your current public IPv4 address

get_public_ip.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from random import shuffle
from sys import exit, stderr
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.error import URLError


urls = [
    "ifconfig.me",
    "icanhazip.com",
    "ipinfo.io/ip",
    "api.ipify.org",
    "ident.me",
    "bot.whatismyipaddress.com",
    "ipecho.net/plain",
    "checkip.amazonaws.com",
    "whatismyip.akamai.com",
    "diagnostic.opendns.com/myip",
]


def fetch_ip_address():
    shuffled_urls = list(urls)
    shuffle(shuffled_urls)

    while shuffled_urls:
        target = shuffled_urls.pop()
        try:
            r = urlopen("http://" + target, timeout=3)
            if r.status == 200:
                return r.read().strip().decode("ASCII")
        except URLError as e:
            pass
    else:
        return None


if __name__ == "__main__":
    result = fetch_ip_address()

    if result:
        print(result)
    else:
        print("No address could be found", file=stderr)
        exit(1)