This guide is for educational and legitimate purposes only. Always respect privacy laws and obtain proper consent before attempting to gather someone's IP address. Use these methods responsibly and ethically.
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique numerical identifier assigned to every device connected to a network. It serves as a digital address that allows devices to communicate with each other over the internet.
Four groups of numbers separated by dots
Eight groups of hexadecimal digits
Create tracking links that capture IP addresses when clicked. Most common and effective method.
Use tracking pixels in emails to capture IP addresses when emails are opened.
Widely written about, but no longer works on Discord, Zoom or Skype — they all relay traffic through their own servers now.
Analyze web server access logs to find IP addresses of website visitors.
The most reliable and straightforward method to capture someone's IP address.
Select a reliable IP logger tool
Visit IPLogger.icu or similar tracking services. These tools are specifically designed for legitimate IP tracking purposes.
Generate a unique tracking URL
Enter a destination URL (the page you want the person to land on) and generate the link. You get back two different URLs, and it matters which one you use: a short tracking link to share, and a separate results page that only you open to read the log.
Save the results page URL. There is no account and no login, so if you lose that URL you lose access to the data the link collects.
Send the link to your target
Share the tracking link through various channels:
Check the tracking dashboard
When someone opens your link they are forwarded to the destination you chose, and the visit is written to
the log. Open the grabify.icu results page you saved in step 2 to see:
Use tracking pixels to capture IP addresses when emails are opened.
Email tracking involves embedding invisible images (tracking pixels) in emails. When the recipient opens the email, their email client loads the image from a tracking server, revealing their IP address.
<img> taggrabify.icu results page to see when it was openedReplace AbC123 with the code from your own link.
Reads land on the same results page as link clicks.
These are the commands people are usually told to use. It is worth being clear about what they actually return, because most of that advice is wrong.
You will find guides claiming that ping or tracert can reveal someone's address.
They cannot:
ping and tracert/traceroute take a hostname you
already know and resolve it through public DNS. They tell you the address of a server, not of a
person. You have to know the target before you start, so they cannot be a way of finding it.netstat and ss list connections on your own
machine. They will show a game or chat server you are connected to — not the other people using it.ipconfig and ifconfig show your own network configuration
and nothing about anyone else.All four are diagnostic tools. They are worth knowing if you are checking whether a host is reachable, where along the route a connection is failing, or which local port a service is bound to.
If your goal is to see who opened something you sent, a tracking link (Method 1) is the only approach on this page that actually does that. The command line is for diagnosing your own connection.
This is the area with the most outdated advice online. Most of what used to work stopped working years ago.
Discord voice has run through its own relay servers for years, in DMs and in servers alike. The other party sees a Discord IP, not yours. Any "Discord IP resolver" being sold or advertised is either scraping something else or is simply a scam.
Zoom, Teams and similar platforms route calls through their own infrastructure by default. The old Skype resolvers everyone remembers stopped working when Microsoft moved Skype to cloud relays, and consumer Skype was retired entirely in 2025.
This one is real: in a BitTorrent swarm every peer connects directly, so peer addresses are visible to everyone in the swarm. It is not targeted, though — you see whoever happens to be sharing that file, and you cannot use it to look up a particular person.
Direct peer-to-peer connections used to be normal because they were cheaper and lower latency. Platforms moved to relaying traffic through their own servers partly for reliability behind NAT and firewalls, and partly because exposing user addresses to each other turned into a harassment and DDoS problem. Guides that still describe the old behaviour were usually written before that shift and never updated.
Always ensure your IP tracking activities comply with:
Virtual Private Networks mask your real IP address by routing traffic through secure servers.
Route your internet traffic through proxy servers to hide your actual IP address from tracking.
Use the Tor network for maximum anonymity and protection against IP tracking.
Configure browser privacy settings, disable JavaScript, and block external images in emails.
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