echoip: Cloudflare stops the API access

While trying to access the curl ifconfig.co/ I’m getting cloudlfare challenge that is impossible to do in curl. The “How do I get this programmatically?” section does not work.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
    <title>Just a moment...</title>
...
        <h2 class="h2" id="challenge-running">
            Checking if the site connection is secure
        </h2>

Remove the cloudflare, of this website is not usable for its intended purpose.

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State: open
Created a year ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 19 (1 by maintainers)

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Yes, the service is worthless as is, but fortunately there are alternatives that actually work:

curl https://api.ipify.org/
curl -6 https://api64.ipify.org/

hydrargyrum on Mar 26, 2023

@hydrargyrum It is intentional since we could not check tor exit nodes against IPv6 exit nodes. If some amount of donation is received will host another instance under a new domain that will support both IPv4 and IPv6.

ifconfigla on Aug 20, 2023

For anyone finding the same problem I made the host of https://ifconfig.la which is cloudflare-free.

ifconfigla on Aug 14, 2023

I don’t think this will be done. It would expose the origin server and lose ddos protection. The compromise is to toggle “bot fighting mode” off.

mfld-pub on Mar 1, 2023

im asking to disable cloudflare for the main website

altmind on Mar 1, 2023

Sourcing from 35.79.238.0/24, but im not asking to whitelist this subnet. Cloudlfare defeats the purpose of API access, cloudflare needs to be removed?

altmind on Mar 1, 2023