Simon Willison’s Weblog

ifconfig.co (via) I really like this: “curl ifconfig.co” gives you your IP address as plain text, “curl ifconfig.co/city” tells you your city according to MaxMind GeoLite2, “curl ifconfig.co/json” gives you all sorts of useful extra data. Suggested rate limit is one per minute, but the code is open source Go that you can run yourself.

# 30th March 2021, 7:53 pm / curl, ip, networking

IPy. Handy Python module for manipulating IP addresses—use IP(ip_addr).iptype() == ’PUBLIC’ to check that an address isn’t in a private address range.

# 24th December 2007, 1:19 pm / ip, ipaddresses, ipy, networking, python, security

List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations (via) See anonymous edits from CIA IP addresses, Fox News and more.

# 14th August 2007, 11:59 am / cia, foxnews, ip, wikipedia

Visual Security: 9-block IP Identification. Smart (and pretty) trick for showing a representation tied to a commenter’s IP address without affecting their privacy.

# 18th January 2007, 4:55 pm / 9block, donpark, ip, privacy