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

this should work well without any external dependencies (with the exception of ipify.org):

var https = require('https');

var callback = function(err, ip){
    if(err){
        return console.log(err);
    }
    console.log('Our public IP is', ip);
    // do something here with the IP address
};

https.get({
    host: 'api.ipify.org',
}, function(response) {
    var ip = '';
    response.on('data', function(d) {
        ip += d;
    });
    response.on('end', function() {
        if(ip){
            callback(null, ip);
        } else {
            callback('could not get public ip address :(');
        }
    });
});

You could also use https://httpbin.org

GET https://httpbin.org/ip