Getting the ‘external’ IP address in Java

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I am not sure if you can grab that IP from code that runs on the local machine.

You can however build code that runs on a website, say in JSP, and then use something that returns the IP of where the request came from:

request.getRemoteAddr()

Or simply use already-existing services that do this, then parse the answer from the service to find out the IP.

Use a webservice like AWS and others

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

URL whatismyip = new URL("http://checkip.amazonaws.com");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                whatismyip.openStream()));

String ip = in.readLine(); //you get the IP as a String
System.out.println(ip);

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