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A client library for ipify: A Simple IP Address API in C.

ipify is the best IP address lookup service on the internet. It's fast, simple, scalable, open source, and well-funded by Randall Degges.

In short: if you need a way to pragmatically get your public IP address, ipify is the best possible choice!

This library will retrieve your public IP address from ipify's API service, and return it as a string. It can't get any simpler than that.

 git clone https://github.com/seekaddo/libipify-c.git
 cd libipify-c
 make all && make install

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ipify.h>

int main(void){


    ipify_connect();
    
    // no free needed here. It uses static gloabl buffer of size 4069 which is enough for GET response
    char *ipptr = ipify_getIP(); 
    
    fprintf(stdout, "Public ip is: %s\n", ipptr);
    ipify_disconnect();
    
    return 0
}

After running your C program above compare your terminal results with this

#Do this in the terminal
curl 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json'


#if you don't have curl installed,then use your browser.
https://api.ipify.org?format=json