Get User IP Address : GameSparks

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Marcin Olszewski

started a topic over 5 years ago

Hi,

we are planning to integrate DB with some external service which requires user IP address to work. Is it possible to get current IP from player?

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Customer Support said over 5 years ago

Hi Marcin,

You can provide the IP Address from the client and send it to the Cloud Code to save on the Gamesparks DB. It is not possible to infer the IP Address from the Cloud Code on it's own.

In Unity this is as simple as:

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

IPHostEntry host;
string localIP = "";
host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
        
foreach (IPAddress ip in host.AddressList)
{
             if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
             {
                 localIP = ip.ToString();
                 break;

             }
}

You can then send this string with any of our requests such as Authentication, Registration or LogEvent. Then in the Cloud Code for these events, save the attribute in a collection, or even the player's privateData.

If you have any other questions let me know.

-Pádraig

Customer Support

said over 5 years ago

Answer

Hi Marcin,

You can provide the IP Address from the client and send it to the Cloud Code to save on the Gamesparks DB. It is not possible to infer the IP Address from the Cloud Code on it's own.

In Unity this is as simple as:

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

IPHostEntry host;
string localIP = "";
host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
        
foreach (IPAddress ip in host.AddressList)
{
             if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
             {
                 localIP = ip.ToString();
                 break;

             }
}

You can then send this string with any of our requests such as Authentication, Registration or LogEvent. Then in the Cloud Code for these events, save the attribute in a collection, or even the player's privateData.

If you have any other questions let me know.

-Pádraig

Customer Support

said over 5 years ago

Hey Marcin,

There are many ways to get the IP from the client -> http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/get-ip-address.100109/
We do not store the IP on the player-doc as we do not currently use it for anything. However you can get the IP from the client and us it in cloud-code as you wish. You should be careful however, as none of these methods are 100% reliable and are based on ISP rules too.

Sean

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ahsan muzaheed

said almost 5 years ago

hi.
i was wondering if it's gamespark's limitation that it cannot have player's ip address. or for security reason they dont provide ip address

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Marcin Olszewski

said over 5 years ago

Cool, thank you, this will help. But for the future that would be great to get that kind of data exactly from cloud code:)

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Marcin Olszewski

said over 5 years ago

I've double checked and noticed that you solution only returns lokal network IP adress (like 192.168.xxx)

Customer Support

said almost 5 years ago

Hi Ahsan,

In line with Data Protection conventions, we do not have direct or access, nor do we expose the ip address of users. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Best Regards, Patrick.

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