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Ifconfig.co – Hacker-friendly “What is my IP address”

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224 points gurjeet | 4 comments | 30 Mar 21 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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mazamats ◴[30 Mar 21 12:53 UTC] No.26633984[source]▶
I prefer ipinfo.io

You can even lookup info for other up addresses. E.g. https://ipinfo.io/1.1.1.1

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mazamats ◴[30 Mar 21 12:54 UTC] No.26633994[source]▶
Plus if you use curl, it will return JSON instead of HtML
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jodrellblank ◴[30 Mar 21 13:25 UTC] No.26634323[source]▶
If you use powershell / invoke-restmethod it will return json and get deserialised into a structured object, too.

    PS C:\> irm ipinfo.io

    PS C:\> $x = irm ipinfo.io
    PS C:\> $x.timezone
    Europe/London
Personally, I use http://checkip.dyndns.org/ by habit, with its one-line return.
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1. majkinetor ◴[30 Mar 21 13:45 UTC] No.26634537[source]▶
No it wont, server need to return JSON format itself.

Your example doesn't work. It needs to be:

    irm ipinfo.io/json
Your other example can be get like this:

    irm http://checkip.dyndns.org | % HTML | % body
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2. JimDabell ◴[30 Mar 21 15:12 UTC] No.26635532[source]▶
It will work. The server will return JSON. The URL http://ipinfo.io/ returns HTML if the Accept header indicates that you want HTML, and JSON if there is no header, a wildcard header, or a header that requests JSON. As far as I can see, irm doesn’t add an Accept header, so the command jodrellblank provided will fetch JSON and work correctly.
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3. majkinetor ◴[30 Mar 21 15:26 UTC] No.26635699[source]▶
Doesnt work on Windows 10 using latest pwsh
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4. jodrellblank ◴[30 Mar 21 15:58 UTC] No.26636201{3}[source]▶
Works on Windows 10 using Windows PowerShell. In Pwsh it does seem to need /json