Show HN: IPof – no nonsense client IP address lookup for machines

by vivekv on 1/4/2015, 4:13 PM with 4 comments

I would like to present a simple API for obtaining the public IP address of the client. the API is fairly simple.

JSON

http://ipof.candralabs.com/json

XML

http://ipof.candralabs.com/xml

Plain text

http://ipof.candralabs.com/txt

Please share your feedback. What features would you like to have in this simple service?

  • by jlgaddis on 1/4/2015, 7:32 PM

    Why do you think something like this needs more "features"?

    When I'm somewhere other than home and need to know my public IP address for some reason, I just use "icanhazip" [0] (GitHub: [1]) which I've aliased to make it even easier/quicker, e.g.:

      $ alias myip
  alias myip='curl http://icanhazip.com'
  $ myip
  192.0.2.42
    It doesn't get much simpler than that -- just spit out the IP address in plain-text and, if needed, I'll massage it however I need to.

    [0]: http://icanhazip.com/

    [1]: https://github.com/major/icanhaz

  • by vivekv on 1/6/2015, 2:52 PM

    I received a bunch of feature requests and here is the status

    1. smaller URL : Changed it to ipof.in so the new URL is

    http://ipof.in/json http://ipof.in/xml http://ipof.in/txt

    2. HTTPS support

    Done. same URLs as above, except in HTTPS format

    3. Return the IP in the HTTP response headers

    Done. Added header X-IPof : <ipaddress>

    4. check if the IP is blacklisted

    Done. Returns a blacklisted flag in the XML and JSON response.

    5. Todo

    IPv6 Geo location data

    Hope this helps

  • by detaro on 1/4/2015, 8:00 PM

    IPv4/6 support is a big one (but not something new, many similar services have that also)