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Introduction

hCaptcha is a captcha service provided by Ace Data Cloud, offering hCaptcha solutions. Through the unified API of Ace Data Cloud, you can quickly call hCaptcha using cURL to achieve functions such as obtaining hCaptcha Tokens and hCaptcha image recognition.

Prerequisites

  • Have an Ace Data Cloud account and obtain an API Token
  • Terminal environment with cURL installed

Basic Usage

The main endpoint for calling the hCaptcha API is:
POST https://api.acedata.cloud/captcha/token/hcaptcha
Complete cURL command example:
curl -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/captcha/token/hcaptcha \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"website_key": "a5f74b19-9e45-40e0-b45d-47ff91b7a6c2", "website_url": "https://accounts.hcaptcha.com/demo"}'
Please replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the actual Token you obtained from the Ace Data Cloud platform.

Response Example

A successful call returns data in JSON format, for example:
{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    ...
  }
}

Using jq to Process Response

It is recommended to use the jq tool for formatted output:
curl -s -X POST https://api.acedata.cloud/captcha/token/hcaptcha \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"website_key": "a5f74b19-9e45-40e0-b45d-47ff91b7a6c2", "website_url": "https://accounts.hcaptcha.com/demo"}' | jq .

Error Handling

Common error codes:
Status CodeDescription
401Authentication failed, please check API Token
403Insufficient balance or no access permission
429Request rate limit exceeded
500Internal server error

Next Steps