This script reads the external IP address, stored in file ext_ip_add.txt (full path), then gets the new external IP address and compares the two, then overwrites previous stored address. Replace LT with proper less than sign and GT with greater than sign. Following cron job pipes output to a text to speech converter. #!usr/bin/python # # Program gets your external IP address # # This program reads the title from # myip.dk website and prints out from # 12th char after < # # Prog checks for change in ip address # # The ip address is written to file # ext_ip_add.txt (overwritten) # # Version 1.0 Geoff Robinson July 09 fileobject1=open('/home/geoff/python/ext_ip_add.txt','r') oldipaddress = fileobject1.readline() fileobject1.close import urllib url = urllib.URLopener() resp = url.open('http://myip.dk') html = resp.read() start = html.find("LTtitleGT") + 12 end = html.find("LT/titleGT") newipaddress = html[start:e