Emailing myself my Pi's external IP address

[ChefBorjan]

Hi there.

I have come across the following command

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curl -s http://ifconfig.me

That quickly returns a nice simple output just displaying my external IP address. I would like to append this information to the python script as given by this guide: http://elinux.org/RPi_Email_IP_On_Boot_Debian

I'm quite new to linux, so could someone just suggest to me where I need to slot it in? I presume I need to make some sort of variable that calls this command and stores the output in a string, then spits this back out just after

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my_ip = 'Your ip is %s' %  ipaddr

This should make it a lot easier to gain access to the machine when I plug it into a new location.

[jamiesk]

Using your URL supplied ... try changing the line

_IP=$(hostname -I) || true

to

_IP=`wget -q -O - http://icanhazip.com/ | tail`

and it should work

[ChefBorjan]

I would just like to say I'm still having problems with this, the above code doesn't seem to work for me.. anyone else?

[bgreat]

Make certain you enter the command correctly. The answer given is an example of command output substitution within the bash (and similar) shell.

From original answer:

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_IP=`wget -q -O - http://icanhazip.com/ | tail`

Note: that those are back-tick characters surrounding the command and not single quote characters. On my US keyboard, the back-tick is located to the left of the number one key.

For reference:

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  ' --> single quote
  ` --> back qoute/back-tick
  " --> double quote

If you want to use your original example site, you can use it in the same way:

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_IP=`curl -s http://ifconfig.me`

In scripting for bash (and similar), enclosing a command in back-ticks is an indication to run the command and use the command output inline. So, using your command as an example, typing at command prompt gives (ip replaced with xx.xx.xx.xx):

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$ curl -s http://ifconfig.me
xx.xx.xx.xx

Executing the script line previously given, after the shell executes and performs substitution, would be equivalent to:

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_IP=xx.xx.xx.xx

The _IP variable is assigned the command output.

The example you linked to has a Python script also. To perform an equivalent in the Python script requires you to update the IP request command with:

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arg='curl -s http://ifconfig.me'
p=subprocess.Popen(arg,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

Single quotes this time...

Enjoy!
Bill