How to get client IP address using jQuery

Question

I want to know how to get client IP address using jQuery?

Is it possible? I know pure javascript can't, but got some code using JSONP from Stack Overflow itself.

So, is there any workaround using jQuery?

Answer 1

jQuery can handle JSONP, just pass an url formatted with the callback=? parameter to the $.getJSON method, for example:

$.getJSON("https://api.ipify.org/?format=json", function(e) {
    console.log(e.ip);
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

This example is of a really simple JSONP service implemented on with api.ipify.org.

If you aren't looking for a cross-domain solution the script can be simplified even more, since you don't need the callback parameter, and you return pure JSON.