A conky question (IP related)

[wolfe]

How can I make conky show my external IP address? Is there a way to query whatismyipaddress.com?

[easybake]

How can I make conky show my external IP address? Is there a way to query whatismyipaddress.com?

Put this in your conkyrc

${execi 3600 wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ | tail}

[wolfe]

thanks so much, works perfectly!

[bluesfreak72]

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

[Ng Oon-Ee]

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

I use the following:-

execi 3600 wget -O - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail

Got it from one of the .conkyrc files posted up in that humongous thread.

[hectic1]

I use the following:-

execi 3600 wget -O - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail

Got it from one of the .conkyrc files posted up in that humongous thread.

man thank you!! i still dunno why whatismyip dindn't show any info for me,if i'd use the link in my browser it would work but not in conky,lol
this works just fine tough! ty

[redDEADresolve]

Do these commands continually check the ip or just do it once at start up?

I don't want it checking every second.

[5BallJuggler]

Do these commands continually check the ip or just do it once at start up?

I don't want it checking every second.

execi 3600 wget -O - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail

the "execi 3600" part of the command means run this every 3600 second

Phil

[redDEADresolve]

execi 3600 wget -O - http://ip.tupeux.com | tail

the "execi 3600" part of the command means run this every 3600 second

Phil

I guess I should think before I type, thanks. As soon as I read that I realized how obvious it was.

If there anyway to get it to just run once?

[5BallJuggler]

just increase the number to an overly large value....

65535 should do it.

Phil