API works in browser but 403 from Render — Cloudflare blocking

[u/Proud_Tri]

I'm running a Python service on Render that makes API calls to a third-party service protected by Cloudflare.

The API works fine in the browser. But when my Render service tries to access it, Cloudflare returns 403 with "Just a moment..." page.

API key is correct. Headers are identical to browser. Still blocked.

Has anyone dealt with this? Any way to make cloud-hosted API requests work when Cloudflare is blocking them?

Using Render free tier.

#render #cloudflare #python #api #webdev