Cloudflare Turnstile pre-clearance demo
This page carries a Cloudflare Turnstile widget with pre-clearance on. Passing it gives the form a token, as any widget does, and also sets a cf_clearance cookie on this site, which lets later requests skip challenge rules up to the widget's clearance level.
The widget
LiveThis widget's settings
0x4AAAAAAFMVElae0AKMyQgM- Mode
- managed, pre-clearance
- Appearance
- always
- Size
- normal
- Rendering
- implicit
- Task
- TurnstileTaskProxyless
The verdict
The token goes to this site's API, which asks Cloudflare's siteverify with the widget's secret key. The reply is shown as it came.
No token checked yet
Solve the widget and press Verify, or paste a token a task returned for this page.
- success
- not checked yet
- hostname
- not checked yet
- challenge_ts
- not checked yet
- action
- not checked yet
- cdata
- not checked yet
- error-codes
- not checked yet
- Widget
- not checked yet
- Round trip
- not checked yet
What the error codes mean
The token you checked
Solve this page with the API
The complete createTask request for this page, then getTaskResult every 2 seconds until it is ready, then the result used as the page uses it. Set ZEROCAPTCHA_KEY to your API key.
- type
- TurnstileTaskProxyless, or TurnstileTask with your proxy
- websiteURL
- https://zerocaptcha.io/captcha-test/cloudflare-turnstile-pre-clearance
- websiteKey
- 0x4AAAAAAFMVElae0AKMyQgM
- metadata.action
- This widget sets none
- metadata.cdata
- This widget sets none
- proxy
- Only with TurnstileTask: http://user:pass@host:port
- callbackUrl
- Optional: called with the result when the task ends
- Idempotency-Key
- A header: sent again within 24 hours, it returns the first task
A task is charged at the listed price when it succeeds; a failed one costs nothing. The same task over REST, POST /v1/tasks, is inSolving Cloudflare Turnstile.
What this widget is
Pre-clearance is a widget setting that makes Turnstile issue cf_clearance in addition to its token, the same cookie a challenge page sets. It works only on a site whose traffic runs through Cloudflare, for hostnames the widget and the zone share, and the cookie lasts for the zone's Challenge Passage time, 30 minutes by default.
Single-page apps use it so that their API calls behind challenge rules go through without ever getting a challenge page back.
Bring a token from elsewhere: the Cloudflare Turnstile token checker.
How to use the result
The task's result is a token: the same value a browser puts in the form's hidden cf-turnstile-response field. Send it where the page's own form sends it, in the same field. On this page that is the check at the top, beside the widget, which asks Cloudflare's siteverify about it with this widget's secret and shows the verdict; a task's token goes in its token box.
A token passes siteverify once, within 300 seconds of the solve. Use it straight away, and solve again for the next submission rather than reusing one.
A task returns the token. The cf_clearance cookie the widget sets stays in the browser that solved it, so to get a clearance for your own client, point a CloudflareChallengeTask at a page behind a challenge rule, such as the managed challenge page, through your proxy.
How to recognise it on a real site
The markup is an ordinary widget's; the difference shows after it passes: a fetch to the site's own /cdn-cgi/ path, and a cf_clearance cookie on the site's domain.
The page loads https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js, the only script Cloudflare supports: it must not be copied, proxied or cached.
The widget itself is an iframe from challenges.cloudflare.com, under /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/. Its requests go to Cloudflare, never to the site.
Inside a form, the widget adds a hidden input named cf-turnstile-response and puts the token there. The site's server checks it with POST https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify.
<script src="https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js" async defer></script>
<div class="cf-turnstile" data-sitekey="0x4AAAAAAFMVElae0AKMyQgM"></div>
<!-- once solved: <input type="hidden" name="cf-turnstile-response" value="…"> -->Pre-clearance questions
Which ZeroCaptcha task solves the Cloudflare Turnstile widget with pre-clearance?
TurnstileTaskProxyless, or TurnstileTask to solve through your own proxy, with the page's URL and its sitekey, plus action and cdata when the widget sets them. The same task solves every Cloudflare Turnstile widget, whatever its mode or appearance.
Does a Cloudflare Turnstile task return the pre-clearance cookie?
No. It returns the token. The cookie stays in the solver's browser; a CloudflareChallengeTask through your proxy returns a clearance your own client can use.