How to get user IP address in Python Django?

To get user IP address in Python Django, we get the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR request header.

For instance, we write

def get_client_ip(request):
    x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
    if x_forwarded_for:
        ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0]
    else:
        ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
    return ip

to create the get_client_ip function that takes the view’s request object.

And we get the user IP address with

request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')

If that’s not available, we use

request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')

to get the user’s IP address.