How can I make conky show my external IP address? Is there a way to query whatismyipaddress.com?
How can I make conky show my external IP address? Is there a way to query whatismyipaddress.com?
Put this in your conkyrc
Code:${execi 3600 wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ | tail}
thanks so much, works perfectly!
I've had this working for quite some time, but it stopped working this morning. I have this in my ~/.conkyrc file:
${execi 600 wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ | tail}
It used to get my external IP, but now it's displaying
(html)(body)(h1)It Works(/h1)(/body)(/html)
(Replace parentheses with angle brackets)
This is also what I get when I view the source of the http://whatismyip.org site. Does anybody know of another site I can query to display my external IP in conky???
Thanks in advance,
Scott
Do these commands continually check the ip or just do it once at start up?
I don't want it checking every second.
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just increase the number to an overly large value....
65535 should do it.
Phil
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