moira

MOIRA

Most Outstanding IP Reporting Assistant

Description

MOIRA is a Node module that retrieves your external IP address asynchronously. It works by requesting your IP from several different IP-fetching services simultaneously and reports the quickest result after verifying that it is a valid IP address. Similar modules that rely on only a single IP-reporting service can introduce issues (returning undefined, etc) in the event that the service is offline; I needed something with a bit more redundancy and reliability.

Installation

You may install MOIRA via Node Package Manager as follows:

npm install moira

The source code is available on GitHub.

Usage

var moira = require('moira');

moira.getIP(function(ip, service) {
    console.log("Your external IP address is " + ip);
    console.log("The fastest service to return your IP address was " + service);
});

Example Output:

Your external IP address is 74.125.239.128
The fastest service to return your IP address was http://whatismyip.akamai.com/

Improving MOIRA

If you would like to contribute code or simply add an IP reporting service, feel free to submit a pull request. Please report issues here.