CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
Sep 16, 2011Damon Billian
Summary
This post introduces the Cloudflare API as a tool for customers to programmatically manage their Cloudflare settings. It highlights five frequently used API calls: enabling development mode, purging the cache, pulling basic statistics, reporting spam, and updating the challenge page screen capture. The spam reporting feature is explicitly linked to improving Cloudflare's threat intelligence and making the system smarter for all users.
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