How do I get the external IP of a socket in Python?

Question

When I call socket.getsockname() on a socket object, it returns a tuple of my machine's internal IP and the port. However, I would like to retrieve my external IP. What's the cheapest, most efficient manner of doing this?

Answer 1

The most simple method of getting a public IP is by using this

import requests

IP = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org/').text
print(f'Your IP is: {IP}')