diff --git a/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf b/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
index 4c0a3810..361cb177 100644
--- a/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
+++ b/config/action.d/cloudflare.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Please set jail.local's permission to 640 because it contains your CF API key.
 #
-# This action depends on curl and jq.
+# This action depends on curl (and optionally jq).
 # Referenced from http://www.normyee.net/blog/2012/02/02/adding-cloudflare-support-to-fail2ban by NORM YEE
 #
 # To get your CloudFlare API Key: https://www.cloudflare.com/a/account/my-account
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ actionban = curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST <_cf_api_prms> \
 # API v4
 actionunban = id=$(curl -s -X GET <_cf_api_prms> \
                    "<_cf_api_url>?mode=block&configuration_target=ip&configuration_value=<ip>&page=1&per_page=1&notes=Fail2Ban%%20<name>" \
-                   | jq -r '.result[0].id')
+                   | { jq -r '.result[0].id' 2>/dev/null || tr -d '\n' | sed -nE 's/^.*"result"\s*:\s*\[\s*\{\s*"id"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)".*$/\1/p'; })
               if [ -z "$id" ]; then echo "<name>: id for <ip> cannot be found"; exit 0; fi;
               curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE <_cf_api_prms> "<_cf_api_url>/$id"