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Visitor IP Reporting API

1 post · Apr 2011

What this trail covers

Cloudflare's API has evolved to provide access to visitor IP data, enabling customers to gain deeper insights into traffic origins and identify potential attacks. This feature allows for programmatic retrieval of IP addresses and associated metadata within a specified time range, enhancing security and traffic analysis capabilities.

All Cloudflare trails
  1. Using the CloudFlare API to pull visitor IPsThis post introduces a new API function, `zone_ips`, that allows customers to retrieve a list of visitor IP addresses and their associated hit counts for their websites within the past 48 hours. It details the API parameters, including API key, zone ID, hours, optional class (regular, crawler, threat), and optional geo-location data. The post also provides instructions on how to construct the API URL and interpret the JSON output, highlighting its utility for identifying and blocking malicious IPs.