My Internet IP Rust Crate

"My Internet IP" is a small rust crate for retrieving the public IP of the device this code is executed on.

Example

extern crate my_internet_ip;

fn main() {
	let ip: ::std::net::IpAddr = match my_internet_ip::get() {
		Ok(ip) => ip,
		Err(e) => panic!("Could not get IP: {}", e)
	};

	// Do something with the IP, e.g. print it
}

Note: The call to my_internet_ip::get() blocks until the public IP was retrieved or an error occurred.

Cargo.toml

my_internet_ip = "0.0.3"

How it works

This crate uses the curl crate to access http://www.myip.ch and parse the result.

Ideas for contributions

• Support async retrieval of the IP
• Use other sites to retrieve the IP (maybe STUN server?) and select one randomly
• Clear up the code (it is quite convoluted, but it works)

License

MIT