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API Token Management

1 post · May 2016 – Aug 2019

What this trail covers

Cloudflare's API token management has evolved to provide granular access control, allowing users to create tokens scoped by resource (accounts and zones) and permission (specific services within a zone). This enhances security by enabling least privilege access and easier token rotation.

All Cloudflare trails
  1. Announcing the General Availability of API TokensThis post announces the general availability of API Tokens, a new feature for managing Cloudflare API access. It details the three core capabilities: scoping by resource, scoping by permission, and the ability to provision multiple tokens. The post explains the principle of least privilege and how API Tokens implement it. It also provides a step-by-step guide on creating and using API Tokens, including examples of scoping by zone and permission, and verifying token validity with a curl request. Updates to the Terraform provider, Cloudflare-Go library, and WordPress plugin are mentioned.
  2. python-cloudflareThis post introduces python-cloudflare, a Python wrapper for the Cloudflare v4 API. It provides code examples for listing zones, checking IPv6 settings, creating DNS records, and managing WAF rules. The post emphasizes the one-to-one mapping between API documentation and the Python library's methods and also introduces a CLI tool for interacting with the API.