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How to use Fense

Fense is a versatile security service that offers features like blocking proxies, VPNs, Tor networks, geolocation blocking, and referrer-based blocking. By integrating Fense directly into your website, you can take full advantage of its capabilities and enhance your website's protection.

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How to use Fense on WordPress
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Don't use WordPress?

No problem! If your website is based on other CMS like Laravel, pure PHP, CakePHP or others, you can use Fense without any problem. Here's a complete guide of how you can add Fense protection to your website.

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API Response

Get information about any IP and check if it's a proxy or not

Endpoint
https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]

Example: Good IP

Scanning a clean IP using Google's DNS (8.8.8.8)

Request
https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/8.8.8.8
Clean IP The response shows "proxy": "no" meaning this IP is clean and safe.
Response
{ "status": "success", "ip": "8.8.8.8", "hostname": "dns.google", "city": "Mountain View", "region": "California", "country": "US", "lang": "English", "loc": "37.4056,-122.0775", "org": "AS15169 Google LLC", "proxy": "no" }

Example: Bad IP

Scanning a known proxy IP (178.212.54.161)

Request
https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/178.212.54.161
Proxy Detected The response shows "proxy": "yes" meaning this IP is a proxy and should be blocked.
Response
{ "status": "success", "ip": "178.212.54.161", "hostname": "178-212-54-161.lss.net.pl", "city": "Midzyrzecz", "region": "Lubusz", "country": "PL", "lang": "English", "loc": "52.4388,15.5677", "org": "", "proxy": "yes" }

PHP Integration

Use this code for any PHP-based framework. If you can create your own code, feel free to do that.

Using cURL

cURL
PHP
<?php $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($curl, [ CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET", ]); $response = curl_exec($curl); $err = curl_error($curl); curl_close($curl); if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err; } else { echo $response; }

Using Guzzle

Guzzle
PHP
<?php $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(); $response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]'); echo $response->getBody();

Python Integration

Use this code for any Python project. If you can create your own code, feel free to do that.

Python
import requests url = "https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]" response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) print(response.json())

JavaScript Integration

Use this code for any JavaScript-based framework. If you can create your own code, feel free to do that.

Using Axios

Axios
JavaScript
import axios from 'axios'; const options = { method: 'GET', url: 'https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]' }; try { const response = await axios.request(options); console.log(response.data); } catch (error) { console.error(error); }

Using jQuery

jQuery
JavaScript
const settings = { async: true, crossDomain: true, url: 'https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]', method: 'GET' }; $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) { console.log(response); });

Using Fetch

Fetch
JavaScript
const url = 'https://api.fense.in/API_TOKEN/[IP address]'; const options = { method: 'GET' }; try { const response = await fetch(url, options); const result = await response.text(); console.log(result); } catch (error) { console.error(error); }