Get only the IP Adress in Anaconda Powershell

Question

I want to get the Output of my Ip Address only inside the Anaconda Powershell in Windows.

curl https://ipinfo.io/ip

Gives me the following:

    StatusCode        : 200
    StatusDescription : OK
    Content           : 22.031.123.456
    RawContent        : HTTP/...
                        ...
                        ...
                    ...
                    ...
                    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
                    Date: ...
                    Via:...
Forms             : {}
Headers           : {[..., *], [...], [...],
                    [..., ...}
Images            : {}
InputFields       : {}
Links             : {}
ParsedHtml        : ...
RawContentLength  : ...

As you can see, "Content" shows my IP Adress. But I can't get the IP-Address without any other informations.

Note: "curl api.ipify.org" and "curl ipinfo.io/ip" and others are doing the exact same thing.

Answer 1

In Windows PowerShell, curl does not refer to the external curl.exe program; instead, it is a built-in alias for PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet.

In order to invoke curl.exe, include the filename extension, .exe:

curl.exe ipinfo.io/ip  # Note: The https:// part isn't strictly needed.

Note that this is no longer necessary in PowerShell (Core) v6+, where the curl alias has been removed, along with others, so as not to shadow external programs that come with the operating system.

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Also note that you could also have used the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet, which - unlike Invoke-WebRequest, which returns a wrapper object around the actual data - returns the response data directly (and, as applicable, parses XML data into [xml] instances and JSON data into [pscustomobject] instances); its built-in alias is irm:

irm ipinfo.io/ip  # irm == Invoke-RestMethod

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As a general tip: To determine which command (a PowerShell-native one or an external program) a given name such as curl refers to, use the Get-Command cmdlet.

• By default, the effective command by that name will be listed.
• If you add the -All switch, you'll potentially see shadowed command forms.

  • On Windows, if an external program is shadowed, you can still invoke it by excluding the .exe extension, as shown.

  • Generally, if a shadowed command is of a different type than the effective command, you can use the Get-Command's -Type parameter to target the shadowed command and invoke it via &, the call operator; e.g., the (less desirable) alternative to appending .exe on Windows would be:

    & (Get-Command -Type Application curl) ipinfo.io/ip