checkip VS hostctl

Compare checkip vs hostctl and see what are their differences.

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checkip hostctl
14 0
202 994
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4.4 3.9
about 1 month ago 2 months ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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checkip

Posts with mentions or reviews of checkip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
  • CLI tool and library that checks an IP address
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    Did you come across an IP address, like from logs, and you have no idea what is it? checkip can help you.
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    I'm getting it here. And I'm using net Go standard library package.
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    OK :-)
  • Check an IP address using various public services
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    checkip uses also shodan. It gets the OS and ports from there.
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    I try to put only the most useful information in the output, like geolocation, OS and ports, company responsible for the autonomous system. And it quickly tells you whether the IP address is considered malicious. Also it's easy to add more Checkers (code the gives you information on an IP address). See https://github.com/jreisinger/checkip for more.
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    I wanted to add it to checkip but I can't call it from command line:

hostctl

Posts with mentions or reviews of hostctl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning hostctl yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing checkip and hostctl you can also consider the following projects:

termbox-go - Pure Go termbox implementation

color - Color package for Go (golang)

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

gocui - Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.

go-flags - go command line option parser

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

kafka-go - Kafka library in Go

The Platinum Searcher - A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

termui - Golang terminal dashboard

urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go

dnstake - DNSTake — A fast tool to check missing hosted DNS zones that can lead to subdomain takeover

markpdf - Watermark PDF files using image or text