View random ngrok URL when run in background

Question

When I start an ngrok client with ./ngrok tcp 22 it runs in the foreground and I can see the randoming generated forwarding URL, such as tcp://0.tcp.ngrok.io:

Answer 1

In Python3

import json
import requests


def get_ngrok_url():
    url = "http://localhost:4040/api/tunnels"
    res = requests.get(url)
    res_unicode = res.content.decode("utf-8")
    res_json = json.loads(res_unicode)
    return res_json["tunnels"][0]["public_url"]

This returned json have 2 url for http and https. If you want only https url, you res_json["tunnels"][index num]["proto"]