Turnstile Pre-Clearance

Pre-clearance lets a successful Turnstile challenge set a cookie that Cloudflare-proxied properties can honor to skip subsequent bot challenges for the same visitor, which is useful for single-page applications and API-heavy flows.

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: cloudflare-turnstile:pre-clearance
name: Turnstile Pre-Clearance
description: 'Pre-clearance lets a successful Turnstile challenge set a cookie

  that Cloudflare-proxied properties can honor to skip subsequent

  bot challenges for the same visitor, which is useful for single-page

  applications and API-heavy flows.

  '
humanURL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/concepts/pre-clearance-support/
baseURL: https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js
tags:
- Pre-Clearance
- Cookies
- Spa
tags_raw:
- Pre-Clearance
- Cookies
- SPA
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/concepts/pre-clearance-support/