what is the IP address of my heroku application

Question

So in my django application, i'm running a task that will request from an api some data in the form of json.

in order for me to get this data, i need to give the IP address of where the requests are going to come from (my heroku app)

how do i get the ip address in which my heroku application will request at

Answer 1

Heroku does not provide a static IP by itself but you can use addons to achieve this goal. This limitation is discussed here - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains

Generally sites use URL instead of IP address to authenticate requests. You can use zerigo_dns to get an static IP address for your Heroku app.

Answer 2

To my knowledge you can not get an ip for a heroku application. You could create a proxy with a known ip that serves as a middleman for the application. Otherwise you might want to look at whether heroku is still the correct solution for you