How to get my external IP address with node.js?

Question

I\'m using node.js and I need to get my external IP address, provided by my ISP. Is there a way to achieve this without using a service like http://myexternalip.com/raw ?

Answer 1

Can do the same as what they do in Python to get external IP, connect to some website and get your details from the socket connection:

const net = require('net');
const client = net.connect({port: 80, host:"google.com"}, () => {
  console.log('MyIP='+client.localAddress);
  console.log('MyPORT='+client.localPort);
});

*Unfortunately cannot find the original Python Example anymore as reference..

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Update 2019: Using built-in http library and public API from https://whatismyipaddress.com/api

const http = require('http');

var options = {
  host: 'ipv4bot.whatismyipaddress.com',
  port: 80,
  path: '/'
};

http.get(options, function(res) {
  console.log("status: " + res.statusCode);

  res.on("data", function(chunk) {
    console.log("BODY: " + chunk);
  });
}).on('error', function(e) {
  console.log("error: " + e.message);
});

Tested with Node.js v0.10.48 on Amazon AWS server