/Current-IP-Address-Finder-and-Notifier

This is a program that fetches your current IP address and will send you a text and an email whenever it changes using Python3.

Primary LanguagePython

Current IP Address Finder and Notifier Description

This is a program that fetches your current IP address whenever it changes and sends you a text and email containing your current IP address. In order to have this run consantly you must automate this program using crontab on a raspberry pi. This is intended to run through a Raspberry Pi and written in Python 3. Big thanks to Alexander Baran-Harper on YouTube for all of the helpful Raspberry Pi tutorials!

Required external libraries and assets

In order to run this you must have a Twilio account and you must download and install the helper library from Twilio. Follow the instructions listed on their website to install properly. Helper library: https://www.twilio.com/docs/libraries/python

You will also need a phone number and a gmail account.

This has to be run in Python3.

For any comments or questions please email me at martin.e.zugschwert@gmail.com