Cloudflare api error zone identifier cannot be found - cloudflare

Question

Hey so trying to use the API to purge individual links but what do I replace with identifier in this link? https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/:identifier/purge_cache
Anyone know where it is located exactly, cloudflare support is a waste of time.

Answer 1

According to the CloudFlare API documentation for Purge Cache, you can post an array of files in a HTTP DELETE request to that endpoint.
Now, that identifier is the Zone ID, for this, you can get a list using a GET request on the Zones endpoint, e.g.:
$ curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones?name=example.com&status=active&page=1&per_page=20&order=status&direction=desc&match=all" \
-H "X-Auth-Email: user#example.com" \
-H "X-Auth-Key: c2547eb745079dac9320b638f5e225cf483cc5cfdda41" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
The ID will be in the "result" variable that comes back. Details are here: List zones.
After you've got this ID you can then pass it through as the identifier in the DELETE request.
Example with cURL:
$ curl -X DELETE "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353/purge_cache" \
-H "X-Auth-Email: user#example.com" \
-H "X-Auth-Key: c2547eb745079dac9320b638f5e225cf483cc5cfdda41" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"files":["http://www.example.com/css/styles.css"],"tags":["some-tag","another-tag"]}'
Response:
{
"success": true,
"errors": [],
"messages": [],
"result": {
"id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353"
}
}

Answer 2

mjsa is right, but you are probably running into CloudFlare's firewall.
I ran into the exact same problem with CloudFlare blocking my cURL requests. I managed to solve, or rather bypass it, by adding a User-Agent header to my requests. For example:
"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.87 Safari/537.36"