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Python 3 Script to Get Local and Public IP Address Using Socket and Requests Libraries
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I will show you a Python
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script which will actually find out you
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the local and public IP address of your
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machine so every ISP have a unique IP IP
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address attached to it so if you want to
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find out your IP address then this
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Python script will definitely uh just
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help you in finding out your local and
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public IP address so for this we will be
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using the built-in packages of Python
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which is the socket module and the
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request module so these comes within the
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Python installation so if I execute the
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script now you will see it will tell me
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the local IP address which is
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192.168.1.2 and the public IP address
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which is
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103.1781.8 i can crossverify as well if
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I go to a website find my IP
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address
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so you can see
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that it is returning the same address
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103.17081.8 you can see that this
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also so in this way this is returning
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the correct address and now I will show
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you the script here
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so first of all just you import the
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necessary packages which is your socket
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package and the request
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package so we require the packages first
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of all and then we
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actually go to the main
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function and inside the main function
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right here we will actually
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call
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the the
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functions which will be responsible to
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define two functions the first function
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will be returning the local IP address
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the second one will be returning the
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public IP address so now we need to
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define these two
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methods
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so I will just define right here first
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one is get local IP
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and now for getting the local IP we
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define one variable public IP and this
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request basically will make a get
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request to an API which is a free API
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which will return you
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the IP addresses so this is the API that
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we are using right here
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https
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api.ipfi.org so if you hit this API it
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will return you the public IP you can
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see
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that so this is the address here so we
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running simply making a request to this
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API for returning our public IP so once
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we do text so this will return I will
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simply return this public
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IP like this and if any sort of now
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error take place we can show the
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error that's all so this completes the
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function
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and now the second function will be
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responsible for getting
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the which is your
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uh this one for
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get public IP and this one will be for
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getting the local
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IP and once again we will be doing this
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inside for getting the local IP address
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it's little bit different we basically
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use the socket module and this contains
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this function get host name we basically
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get the host name after that using that
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host name we will get the local IP
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address so this socket contains this
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function get host by name and we pass
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the host
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name like this and then this will be
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returning the local IP so you can see
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that for getting the local IP address we
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are using the socket module these two
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functions and for getting the public IP
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we are making a simple get call to the
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this API it's a free API you can call
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make this get call and if I run this
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script
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now so it is
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saying just the indentation
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error so you can see now it is returning
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your local IP and this is your public IP
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so in this way inside Python you can get
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these local and public IP addresses and
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uh thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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