Check if a user is using a VPN - Guide

[ShadowDEV_fr (ShadowDEV)]

Detect if the user uses a VPN

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Today I’m gonna show you how you can check an user’s IP and see if they are using a VPN without any extension and without a limit.

Step 1

Drag 2 web component into your screen.
x2
leave the settings for the first web component.
For the second, put this as url : https://api.ipify.org/

Step 2

This part of the guide is outdated, please see Check if a user is using a VPN - Guide - #5 by ShadowDEV_fr

Go into the blocks screen, and drop the following blocks:

Step 3

It works! Leave a like if this helped you

[Taifun]

thank you for your contribution!

further reading concerning the services used see here:
http://getipintel.net/
https://www.ipify.org/

Taifun

[ShadowDEV_fr (ShadowDEV)]

Yeah, I’ve forgotten to put it on my topic

(btw I love what you do and I day thank you for your extension directory, i’ts very useful, maybe try and put a more “modern” design?)

[Mateja]

This does not work for me. Returns -5 no matter if I am using a VPN or no

[ShadowDEV_fr (ShadowDEV)]

Strange seems like they changed their API or smth…
I found another API: https://proxycheck.io/
You can parse the result with the JSON component, and get the “type”

Here with nordvpn:

I am connected to the belgium server, and you can see that in the “type” return “VPN”
(I’m using ubuntu so yeah)

Without a VPN it will output "type": "Residential"

So from this you can check if the value of “type” is a VPN.

[Mateja]

Cool, it works, sometimes. Here’s when I am connected to another server

Their server is probably hosted with Azure

[ShadowDEV_fr (ShadowDEV)]

Maybe
Well you just have to test if “type” is “Residential” maybe it’ll work better

[pubgmobile]

Please make a Extension