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Basic Usage

Look Up Your Public IP

Section titled “Look Up Your Public IP”

Run with no arguments to auto-detect and look up your own IP:

Terminal window
ipwhoami
Fetching your public IP...
Your IP: 203.0.113.42


[ipinfo]
  IP         203.0.113.42
  City       Sydney
  Region     New South Wales
  Country    AU
  Org        AS12345 Example ISP
  Location   -33.8688,151.2093
  Timezone   Australia/Sydney

Look Up a Specific IP

Section titled “Look Up a Specific IP”

Pass an IPv4 or IPv6 address as an argument:

Terminal window
ipwhoami 8.8.8.8
Terminal window
ipwhoami 2001:4860:4860::8888

Choose a Provider

Section titled “Choose a Provider”

By default, ipwhoami uses ipinfo.io. Switch with -p:

Terminal window
# Use ipapi.co
ipwhoami -p ipapi 8.8.8.8


# Use ip-api.com
ipwhoami -p ip-api 8.8.8.8

See Providers for details on each provider.

Combine Flags

Section titled “Combine Flags”

Flags can be combined freely:

Terminal window
# Raw JSON from a specific provider
ipwhoami -r -p ipapi 1.1.1.1


# Compare all providers with raw output
ipwhoami -c -r 8.8.8.8