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Cloudflare Trace

Instant edge diagnostics; caller IP, country, colo, TLS and HTTP version

Cloudflare's /cdn-cgi/trace endpoint returns a plain key=value report about the connecting client as seen by Cloudflare's edge: public IP, country, the data-center (colo) you hit, TLS version, HTTP protocol, user agent and a request timestamp. It is an effortless, keyless way to get the caller's IP and rough geolocation.

Free tier

Free, no key; available on cloudflare.com and any Cloudflare-fronted domain

Rate limits

Not published; trivial edge endpoint with effectively no cost

Auth

No key

Base URL

https://www.cloudflare.com

What you'd build with it

  • Get the caller's public IP and country without an IP-geo service
  • Detect which Cloudflare data-center a region routes to
  • Sanity-check TLS/HTTP version from a script or automation
  • Lightweight 'where am I' check inside a skill

Key endpoints

  • GET/cdn-cgi/tracePlain-text key=value client diagnostics (ip, loc, colo, tls, http)
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ipgeodiagnosticsnetworkdeveloper