AlQuran Api doesnt work in Russia

LIkus777

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. Please tell me the reason why requests to do not work in Russia. https://alquran.cloud/api (it works with VPN). Maybe there are some solutions to this problem?

meezaan

LIkus777 3laykum salaam! Thank you for bringing this up.

We have had some intermittent reports but we need to get to the source of this to solve it the right way. We have a CDN PoP running in Russia for the Audio files (but even it's source is outside Russia), so I'm not sure if that is also problematic. It's possible that only certain Russian ISPs are blocked, but even if that is the case, we'll need to make the provision for all Russian IPs.

If you can help debug, we'll get to the bottom of it and see if we need to place infrastructure in Russia.

When you call the API (ideally from the command line), do you get any response at all? Or just connection timeouts? - Any specific TCP or HTTP errors?
Are you able to access the AlAdhan API, for instance, at https://api.aladhan.com/v1/methods. If so, can you please share the HTTP headers?
Are you able to access the CDN, or instance, at https://cdn.islamic.network/quran/audio/64/ar.alafasy/777.mp3. If so, can you please share the HTTP headers?

Thank you for your help.

LIkus777

meezaan

1) The essence of the error is that when I make an http request, I just don't get a response. Even if you set the request timeout to 5 minutes.

2) Request to https://api.aladhan.com/v1/methods

Status: 200
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Header: x-ratelimit-limit-second = $24
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Header: ratelimit-remaining = $23
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Header: access-control-allow-origin = $*
Header: access-control-allow-headers = $Authorization, origin, if-none-match
Header: access-control-allow-methods = $GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS
Header: x-cache-status = $Hit
Header: access-control-expose-headers = $*
Header: age = $2745
Header: access-control-allow-credentials = $true
Header: x-powered-by = $Kipchak by Mamluk
Header: cache-control = $public,max-age=7200
Header: etag = $fae915fbd649d8c58613e4357724ace3
Header: server = $Unit/1.34.2
Header: date = $Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:29:49 GMT
Header: content-length = $3578
Header: x-kong-upstream-latency = $0
Header: x-kong-proxy-latency = $1
Header: via = $1.1 kong/3.9.0
Header: x-kong-request-id = $95fbf514ba97007f3813a675b742a008
Body echo: {"code":200,"status":"OK","data":{"MWL":{"id":3,"name":"Muslim World League","params":{"Fajr":18,"Isha":17},"location":{"latitude":51.5194682,"longitude":-0.1360365}},"ISNA":{"id":2,"name":"Islamic So

3) Request to https://cdn.islamic.network/quran/audio/64/ar.alafasy/777.mp3

Status: 200
Header: server = $nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
Header: date = $Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:18:40 GMT
Header: content-type = $audio/mpeg
Header: content-length = $240941
Header: last-modified = $Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:31:34 GMT
Header: vary = $Accept-Encoding
Header: etag = $"67043716-3ad2d"
Header: expires = $Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:36:57 GMT
Header: cache-control = $max-age=2592000
Header: pragma = $public
Header: cache-control = $public
Header: x-sb-pop = $AYBAK
Header: x-sb-provider = $Storage by Mamluk
Header: x-cdn-cache = $HIT
Header: x-cdn-pop = $Saint Petersburg
Header: x-cdn-provider = $Bahriya by Mamluk
Header: accept-ranges = $bytes
Body echo: ID3 ???????? COMM??????1???? eng??::Served by Islamic Network CDN - 001001.mp3TALB?????? ???? The Holy Qur'anTIT2?????? ???? Al-Maaida, Ayah 108 (5:108)TPE1?????? ???? Alafasy??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

meezaan

LIkus777 That is interesting. Both api.alquran.cloud and api.aladhan.com should resolve to the same IP. Can you please ping both domains and tell me what IP you see? Thank you.

LIkus777

meezaan Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. They are being sent successfully

meezaan

LIkus777 3laykum salaam, to what IP?

LIkus777

meezaan Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh. to: https://cdn.islamic.network and https://api.aladhan.com

meezaan

@LIkus777 My question is which IP address do you see when you ping these domains?

And are you able to ping alquran.cloud or api.alquran.cloud?

LIkus777

cdn.islamic.network - 147.45.110.97
api.aladhan.com - 128.140.85.170
alquran.cloud - 128.140.85.170
api.alquran.cloud - 128.140.85.170

all success. I'm doing this from a PC with no VPN

meezaan

LIkus777 Thank you. So as you can see, both api.aladhan.com and api.alquran.cloud resolve to the same IP and have the exact same firewall rules. So your request is not timing out because of something on that side as api.aladhan.com works and neither are Russian IPs blocked.

This appears to be something done by your ISP, most likely.

Can you perhaps share the exact HTTP call you are making to the API?

Thanks.

LIkus777

meezaan and now I'm even having some kind of problem with the vpn.
D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/0/ar.alafasy
D ➡️ Headers:
D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/1/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
E ❌ Request failed: Unable to resolve host "api.alquran.cloud": No address associated with hostname
E ❌ Request failed: Unable to resolve host "api.alquran.cloud": No address associated with hostname

LIkus777

D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/1/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/1/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
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date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:16:53 GMT
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D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/2/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
D ⬅️ Response (200) for https://api.alquran.cloud/v1/surah/1/ru.kuliev in
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D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/2/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
D ➡️ Request: GET https://api.alquran.cloud/surah/1/ru.kuliev
D ➡️ Headers:
E ❌ Request failed: timeout
E ❌ Request failed: timeout
E ❌ Request failed: timeout

meezaan

LIkus777 Thank you, this helped me dig deeper into what the problem might be.

Can you please try with the base url https://alquran.api.islamic.network instead? So https://alquran.api.islamic.network/v1/surah/1/ru.kuliev.

It looks like the .cloud TLD is blocked in Russia by several ISPs due it it's usage by US Cloud providers - so having a different name throughout the ecosystem (domain, DNS, etc included) should solve this problem.

Please keep us posted. Thanks!