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I have researched and found dozens of ways to determine the public IP on a standard Rasbian or UbuntuMate Distro. Because I am working in UbuntuCore I do not have access to any thing that I cannot install through the snap package installer. (background) I am creating a networked surveillance system for a class project but have some limitations due to the high security of the school/test network. I've narrowed my search to a package/tool to perform http get request though I'm not sure I'm looking in the correct direction

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  • Welcome to Raspberry Pi SE. Feel free to take the tour at raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/Tour that will help you get the most from this site. Have you tried just using your web browser? Many sites will feed it back to you like GRC's Shields-Up and bearsmyip.com
    – SDsolar
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 2:21

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After a very specific search (netcat what is my ip) I found this post. My solution was the second answer: echo 'GET /' | nc icanhazip.com 80 worked and gave me exactly what I was looking for... Hope someone else finds this useful!

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    The command does not work for me on Raspbian 2018-03-13. I get the error message usage: nc [...].
    – Ingo
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 10:27
  • Hey sorry about that. Its not a version issue I forgot to include the port number in the original post is all. Thanks this was helpful
    – Brothaman
    Commented Jun 13, 2018 at 17:11

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