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Ipify

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pipeworx.ioDeveloper Tools0Updated 2d ago

About Ipify

Ipify is an MCP server for checking the public IPv4 or IPv6 address visible to its service. It is for clients that need a simple IP echo, including egress checks and smoke tests.

Key features

  1. 01Retrieve the observed IPv4 address
  2. 02Retrieve the observed IPv6 address
  3. 03Run locally over stdio or use Pipeworx gateway

Use cases

  1. 01Check the gateway's egress IP
  2. 02Run a connectivity smoke test

MCP support

Exposes ipv4() and ipv6() as MCP tools. It can run as a local stdio server or be connected through the Pipeworx gateway, which also supplies shared meta-tools.

Configuration

Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.

Endpointhttps://gateway.pipeworx.io/ipify/mcp
Copy install command
Claude CodeTerminal
Cursor.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code.vscode/mcp.json
Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json
Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.

Tools

Details

From the project README

@pipeworx/ipify

ipify MCP — keyless "what is my public IP" echo.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1881+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

  • ipv4() — caller's IPv4 (as gateway sees it — note: this is the CF Worker egress IP, not the upstream caller)
  • ipv6() — caller's IPv6

When called via the pipeworx gateway, the returned IP is the Cloudflare egress IP that fetched the upstream — not the LLM/agent IP. Useful for verifying egress IPs / smoke tests.

Data source

https://api.ipify.org, https://api64.ipify.org

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipify": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ipify/mcp"
    }
  }
}
What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ipify/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1881+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ipv4 \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ipv4. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ipify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-ipify"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ipify

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Ipify data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

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License

MIT

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