How to make your own 'get my current IP address' server using only nginx

Note: In some configurations, this returns e.g. ::ffff:1.2.3.4 for IPv4 requests and I did not resolve this yet

This nginx config will return the user’s IP address to the user. Note that it won’t work behind a reverse proxy, it actually needs to listen on port 80 and/or 443 of the IP address of the domain it is served as.

location = /api/get-my-ip {
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, OPTIONS';
    add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
    return 200 '$remote_addr';
}

This is a JSON-returning variant:

location = /api/get-my-ip-json {
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, OPTIONS';
    add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
    return 200 '{"ip": "$remote_addr"}';
}

This configuration is available online, for free, at techoverflow.net: See How to get your current IPv4 address using wget and How to get your current IPv6 address using wget