Go External IP    

A Golang library to get your external ip from multiple services.

TODO

• Design/Implement STUNSource, more info:
  • RFC 3489;
  • RFC 5389;

Docs

https://godoc.org/github.com/GlenDC/go-external-ip

Usage

Using the library can as simple as the following (runnable) example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/glendc/go-external-ip"
)

func main() {
    // Create the default consensus,
    // using the default configuration and no logger.
    consensus := externalip.DefaultConsensus(nil, nil)
    // Get your IP,
    // which is never <nil> when err is <nil>.
    ip, err := consensus.ExternalIP()
    if err == nil {
        fmt.Println(ip.String()) // print IPv4/IPv6 in string format
    }
}

Please read the documentation for more information.

exip

This library also comes with a standalone command line application, which can be used to get your external IP, directly from your terminal.

install

$ go install github.com/glendc/go-external-ip/cmd/exip

usage

$ exip -h
Retrieve your external IP.

Usage:
    exip [flags]

Flags:
  -h help
    	show this usage message
  -t duration
    	consensus's voting timeout (default 5s)
  -v	log errors to STDERR, when defined