Friday Fun: What’s My IP

Today's Friday Fun is a "quick and dirty" solution to the question, "What is my public IP address?" There are plenty of web sites and services you can visit that will display that piece of information. Naturally I want an easy way to get this in PowerShell. Recently I came across a reference to a web site that simply displays your IP address. To see for yourself go to http://icanhazip.com/.

Pretty cool.

This means I can use PowerShell.

The content property is all I need so here's a one-liner.

(invoke-webrequest http://icanhazip.com/ -UseBasicParsing -DisableKeepAlive).content.trim()

Of course that's a lot to type so I put together a simple function.

Function Get-MyPublicIP {
[cmdletbinding()]

Param()

$paramHash = @{
 uri = 'http://icanhazip.com/'
 DisableKeepAlive = $True
 UseBasicParsing = $True
 ErrorAction = 'Stop'
}
Try {
    $request = Invoke-WebRequest @paramHash
    $request.Content.Trim()
}
Catch {
    Throw $_
}

} #end function

Now I can easily get my public IP.

Nothing fancy, just getting the job done. Enjoy.

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