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[jaco0646]

There's probably an easy way to do this that I'm missing: how can I get my global IP address? %A_IPAddress1% only returns the local. Is there a command line program that retrieves it perhaps? IPconfig.exe only returns the local as well.

I could use 'URLDownloadToFile' to check a webpage for it, but that's a last resort.

[ggirf14]

What is global IP address???
Are you looking for your MAC address?, Your "public" network card address?

The following will get you at the root of C a file called "output" with the info about all of your network cards.

Run, cmd.exe
Sleep, 100
Send, ipconfig /all > c:\outputfile.txt {enter}
Sleep, 3000
Send, exit {enter}

[SKAN]

Dear jaco0646,

The following lines of AHK code will retrieve the "External IP Address"

1) You should be connected to the Internet else it will show 0.0.0.0
2) It consumes mere 505 bytes of Bandwidth

[jaco0646]

I found my answer here. Apparently my last resort is my only resort.

[SKAN]

But jaco0646, did you try my code?!
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[jaco0646]

Goyyah, you beat me to it! 'URLDownloadToFile' is indeed the only answer I could find. Thanks for the web link; your code works perfectly!

[PhiLho]

I found a similar script (at a time I forget to write down where I get these tips) in this forum and kept it as I find it convenient.
It is basically the same as Goyyah's one, but since it uses a different address, I give it here (Internet resources are never permanent...):

[SKAN]

Dear PhiLho,

[skygt]

instead of ipconfig try:

ipconfig all
or
ipconfigall

it shows more than 1 ip adresse

Hope it helps!

if you have a router you can type a local ip adresse in the browser
and should see somewhere a link showing all your ip adresses

[PhiLho]

That's ipconfig /all (see second post), and it doesn't show the "global" (public, known by Internet servers) IP address.
I am not sure about your second trick, even less if you run some Web server... Perhaps it works with some routers.
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[skygt]

Oh ok sorry then
At least i tryed helping
And yes some routers can let you look at all your stuff
Like Linksys and D-link

[jaco0646]

This URL no longer works for me: http://www.whatismyip.org/ It generates the following error message:

Error: blank User-Agent header is not allowed! Please ask the author of your IP address checking client to specify their client's name in the User-Agent header

I have no idea what the error means; but I thought it might be of interest to Chris as far as how the UrlDownloadToFile command functions and possibly changing it to avoid this. Can AHK specify a "User-Agent header?"

The second URL is still working: http://www.netikus.net/show_ip.html

What was that about Internet resources... ?
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[PhiLho]

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