Get IP address of visitors using Flask for Python

Question

I'm making a website where users can log on and download files, using the Flask micro-framework (based on Werkzeug) which uses Python (2.6 in my case).

I need to get the IP address of users when they log on (for logging purposes). Does anyone know how to do this? Surely there is a way to do it with Python?

Answer 1

See the documentation on how to access the Request object and then get from this same Request object, the attribute remote_addr.

Code example

from flask import request
from flask import jsonify

@app.route("/get_my_ip", methods=["GET"])
def get_my_ip():
    return jsonify({'ip': request.remote_addr}), 200

For more information see the Werkzeug documentation.