Get the public-facing IP for any server with icanh

There are a ton of places on the internet where you can check the public-facing IP for the device you are using. I've used plenty of them, but I've always wanted one that just returned text. You can get pretty close with , but there is still HTML in the output:

$ curl checkip.dyndns.org
Current IP Address: 174.143.240.31

I wanted something simpler, so I set up :

$ curl icanhazip.com
174.143.240.31