Prayer Times API is not working

shaukatali

I am currently using the API below within the WordPress theme of the www.edarabia.com website, but it is not working as expected. I am encountering the following error:

API: https://api.aladhan.com/v1/calendar/2025/9?latitude=24.8607&longitude=67.0011&method=1&school=1
Error: Error fetching data: cURL error 28: Failed to connect to api.aladhan.com port 443: Connection timed out

Could you please look into this issue and assist in resolving it?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Regards,
Shaukat Ali
Email: developer2.grafdom@gmail.com

meezaan

shaukatali Salaam. Are you using Digital Ocean? If so, please share your IP as the Digital Ocean ASN has been blocked for now due to the DDoS.

shaukatali

Replied to your chat on email

I have replied to the message above at support@islamic.network.

meezaan

shaukatali Let's continue there.

rafikee

Salam I have the same issue it seems. I'm using appwrite.io as my backend and can't hit the API anymore. I did extensive testing to make sure it's not something else. I can other endpoints and locally it works. But when using appwrite to hit aladhan it doesn't work 🙁

Is this something you can help me with? It was working up until a couple days ago I think

meezaan

rafikee 3laykum salaam. What is the API URL you are calling exactly and what is the response you are getting? Please ensure you call the updated URL structure on https://aladhan.com/prayer-times-api to avoid any 302s which will cut your rate limit (https://community.islamic.network/d/2-is-there-a-rate-limit-on-the-apis) into half, effectively.

Also, you may want to ask what provider / servers appwrite uses. If they use Digital Ocean, currently traffic cannot be allowed from their servers because of https://community.islamic.network/d/167-ddos-attack-and-mitigation.

rafikee

Thanks for the troubleshooting steps.

Here is the URL I'm using https://api.aladhan.com/v1/timings/16-09-2025?latitude=47.618962&longitude=-122.337647&method=2&iso8601=true
It looks to me like this is the updated URL structure?
I don't think rate limits are in effect here because I'm just trying to hit it once
I tried to research it and couldn't find any details on appwrite using Digital Ocean, but that is a possible scenario.

I looked into hosting my own but it seems like 7x is prohibitively expensive so I might end up building my own backend that does what's needed

meezaan

rafikee 7x is expensive? How? Also, can you share details of what actual error you get?

The URL structure is updated. If you're running into an issue with just 1 URL, it means their IP is blacklisted as that would mean L3 throttling.

rafikee

Sorry I should have included that earlier. This is from my logs. It seems like it is not even connecting. My assumption is because whatever IP is being used is blacklisted by you? It's understandable and looks like I would have to use a different backend than appwrite or try to do something hosted by myself. The pricing is almost 50 USD a month for 7x which is entirely too much for my smaller scale 100 user project. I'm going to look into using some free APIs for converting long/lat into timezones.

🌐 API request failed: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.aladhan.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/timings/17-09-2025?latitude=47.618962&longitude=-122.337647&method=2&iso8601=true (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f1de1f32870>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 101] Network unreachable'))
🔍 Error type: ConnectionError

meezaan

rafikee This indeed means you are hitting the L3 firewall, so appwrite likely runs on Digital Ocean.

Pricing for 7x begins at less than USD 5 per month. With 100 users you probably only need the 2x or 3x plan, both of which are under USD 5 a month. See https://7x.ax/pricing.

rafikee

Sounds good I'll look into it!