How can I obtain my public key (using web3)

Question

I know my Ethereum address, my Metamask wallet will give it to me, and I can run :

web3.eth.coinbase

But I want to know what my public key is.
Is there any way I can find that ?

(the reason I want to know a public key because I believe I need it to verify if a particular signed message was truely signed by that key)

If the message signature includes the v value (in addition to r and s)—which is the norm for signatures in Ethereum—then you can recover the public key, hash it to get the address, and see if the address matches. (You don't need to know the public key in advance.) — smarx, Feb 23 '18 at 3:23

crododile · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-20 18:46:11Z

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answered Jun 20 at 18:46

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You can use recover to verify a signed message. But otherwise the public key is not exposed by web3. – Ismael Jun 21 at 4:48

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