How to get local ip address python?

Question

There's a code I found in internet that says it gives my machines local network IP address:

hostname = socket.gethostname()
local_ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)

but the IP it returns is 192.168.94.2 but my IP address in WIFI network is actually 192.168.1.107 How can I only get wifi network local IP address with only python? I want it to work for windows,linux and macos.

Answer 1

Here's code from the whatismyip Python module that can grab it from public websites:

import urllib.request

IP_WEBSITES = (
           'https://ipinfo.io/ip',
           'https://ipecho.net/plain',
           'https://api.ipify.org',
           'https://ipaddr.site',
           'https://icanhazip.com',
           'https://ident.me',
           'https://curlmyip.net',
           )

def getIp():
    for ipWebsite in IP_WEBSITES:
        try:
            response = urllib.request.urlopen(ipWebsite)

            charsets = response.info().get_charsets()
            if len(charsets) == 0 or charsets[0] is None:
                charset = 'utf-8'  # Use utf-8 by default
            else:
                charset = charsets[0]

            userIp = response.read().decode(charset).strip()

            return userIp
        except:
            pass  # Network error, just continue on to next website.

    # Either all of the websites are down or returned invalid response
    # (unlikely) or you are disconnected from the internet.
    return None

print(getIp())

Or you can install pip install whatismyip and then call whatismyip.whatismyip().