WhereAmI

whereami is a simple command line utility that displays your current global/public IP address; works on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Useful for finding out the ephemeral (current external) IPv4 address.

$ whereami
123.234.123.124

$ whereami -help
Usage of whereami:
  -verbose
        prints detailed information if any. such as IPv6 and etc.

• Note:
  • This command only displays IPv4 addresses. However, some service providers will return IPv6 addresses and more detailed information. In these cases, the --verbose option can be used to view the details of the provider's response.
  • To avoid a large number of API requests to the service providers, this application sleeps for one second after printing the obtained global/public IP address.

Install

• Manual download and install:

  • Latest Releases Page
    • macOS (x86_64/M1), Windows (x86_64/ARM64), Linux (x86_64/ARM64/ARM v5, 6, 7)
    • Download the archive of your OS and architecture then extract it. Place the extracted binary in your PATH with executable permission.
    • Public Key of the signature: https://github.com/KEINOS.gpg

• Install via Homebrew:

  • macOS, Linux and Windows WSL2. (x86_64/ARM64, M1)

    brew install KEINOS/apps/whereami

• Install via go install:

  • Go v1.16 or above.

    go install github.com/KEINOS/whereami/cmd/whereami@latest

• Run via Docker:

  • Multiarch build for x86_64 (Intel/AMD) and ARM64/M1 architectures.

    # The image is around 5.5MB in size
    docker pull keinos/whereami:latest
    docker run --rm keinos/whereami

Statuses

Contribute

• GolangCI Lint rules: .golangci-lint.yml
• To run tests in a container:
  • docker-compose --file ./.github/docker-compose.yml run v1_17
  • This will run the below on Go 1.17:
    • go test -cover -race ./...
    • golangci-lint run
    • golint ./...
• Branch to PR:
  • main
  • ( It is recommended that DraftPR be done first to avoid duplication of work )

License

• MIT. Copyright: (c) 2021 KEINOS and the WhereAmI contributors.

Acknowledgment

Service Providers Used

We would like to thank the following service providers that this command uses to discover global/public IP addresses.

• https://ipinfo.io/
• https://inet-ip.info/
• http://inetclue.com/
• https://toolpage.org/
• https://ipinfo.io/

This command requests these providers in random order and returns the first IP address with the same response. As soon as 3 of the same IP address are returned, the command stops and prints that IP address. If you notice that a provider is not working or not responding properly, please report an issue.