How to Get Your Mobile Proxy IP Address Using Python

Introduction

In today's post we are going to show you how you can check the current IP address of your mobile proxy using Python

To do this we will utilise a service provided by Akamai for checking the IP address of the current connection, you can do that here: http://whatismyip.akamai.com/

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

  1. Python is installed on your system. You can download Python from the official website (https://www.python.org/downloads/).
  2. A mobile proxy, you should have the proxy server details, including the IP address and port number as well as any authentication. If you need one, you can purchase a GridPanel mobile proxy.

Get Your Mobile Proxy IP Address Using Python

Step 1: Import the Required Module

Python comes with the handy requests module which we use to make all kinds of HTTP requests. It has excellent built-in proxy support so it is great for finding your IP.


import requests

Step 2: Configure and send the HTTP Request

To see the IP of the mobile proxy we need to route the traffic through the mobile proxy itself. You can learn more about how this works by reading our post on using a mobile proxy with python


proxy = {
    'http': 'http://your-proxy-address:port',
    'https': 'https://your-proxy-address:port'
}
response = requests.get("http://whatismyip.akamai.com/", proxies=proxy)

Step 3: Extract the IP Address

Once we have made the request we can easily extract the IP address by reading the text content of the response. Of course, we need to ensure that the request returns a 200, success status code.


if response.status_code == 200:
    ip_address = response.text.strip()
    print("Your mobile proxy IP address is:", ip_address)
else:
    print("Failed to retrieve the IP address. Check your internet connection or the URL.")

Step 4: Run the Script

Save your Python script with a 

.py
extension (e.g., 
get_proxy_ip.py
) and run it using your preferred Python interpreter.


python get_proxy_ip.py

Below you can see the contents of the final script in full


proxy = {
    'http': 'http://your-proxy-address:port',
    'https': 'https://your-proxy-address:port'
}

response = requests.get("http://whatismyip.akamai.com/", proxies=proxy)

if response.status_code == 200:
    ip_address = response.text.strip()
    print("Your mobile proxy IP address is:", ip_address)
else:
    print("Failed to retrieve the IP address. Check your internet connection or the URL.")

Conclusion

In this blog post, we've shown you how to retrieve your mobile proxy IP address using Python and the http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ service. If you are using our mobile proxies, and rotating them often, checking the IP is a crucial part of the process. With the code above you can achieve this with ease.

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