Print out IP address script

Question

I need to make a script that gets my public IP address from a website and prints it out.

#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.ipchicken.com/

grep

I don't know where to go from here.

Please help

What do you mean by "get my ip address from a website and print it out"? Do you just want the ip address of the site itself? — Nasir Riley, Mar 09 '20 at 01:09
what is your question? ... we should not have to guess what you want to know — jsotola, Mar 09 '20 at 01:41
Does this answer your question? [How can I get my external IP address in a shell script?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22615/how-can-i-get-my-external-ip-address-in-a-shell-script) — GAD3R, Mar 09 '20 at 09:25

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '20 at 01:29

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You could use

wget -qO- https://api.ipify.org; echo

See the API usage on ipify.org.

answered Mar 09 '20 at 01:29

Freddy

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '20 at 01:29

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What you're trying to do is fragile; it depends on the format of the HTML document returned by ipchicken, and that can change without warning. This currently works for me, your mileage may vary:

$ wget http://www.ipchicken.com/ -qO - | grep -oE "\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b"
108.27.105.76

answered Mar 09 '20 at 01:29

Andy Dalton

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See @freddy 's answer; that doesn't depend on parsing the HTML – Andy Dalton Mar 09 '20 at 01:30

schrodingerscatcuriosity · Answer 3 · 2020-03-09T02:24:22.140

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You can use http://plain-text-ip.com/:

 wget -qO- http://plain-text-ip.com/; echo
 18?.1?.2?.5?

edited Mar 09 '20 at 02:24

answered Mar 09 '20 at 01:39

schrodingerscatcuriosity

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Print out IP address script

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