Cloudflare api - Identify and remove a record

taronyu

For a project I need to remove a a record from a CF account. When I started I didn't think this would be hard. But now I reached that part and I'm stuck. I'm writing a bash script and I only have that ip and/or a record name. However according to the CF I need to know the record id.

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And to get the record id I need to call rec_load_all. This will return all the records for that given domain. Now the problem is, how am I going to identify the right record id from the response from Cloudflare in bash?

Cloudflare api documentation: https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html

bdtech

Traverse, match the same fqdn or IP, then grab the record_id. I'd recommend PHP and execute via the command line. It will provide more functionality and you would exec just like bash anyway

black

Here's a snippet of code I have, though it might have an issue with www.something.com vs something.com. I can't remember if I fixed it or not. It's something to start off, I guess.

$tkn is your cloudflare API token

$email is your cloudflare email address

function rec_load_all() {
curl https://www.cloudflare.com/api_json.html \
  -d 'a=rec_load_all' \
  -d "tkn=$tkn" \
  -d "email=$email" \
  -d "z=$1" -s | python -mjson.tool > results.txt
}

#$1 = searching for that zone's dns ID
function getDNSID() {
        dnsLineNum=`grep -E "$1" -n results.txt | head -n 1 |  cut -d ":" -f1`;
        echo "dns line #:$dnsLineNum";
        dnsIDLineNum=`echo "$dnsLineNum + 13" | bc -q`;
        echo "dns id line #: $dnsIDLineNum";
        DNSID=`sed -n "$dnsIDLineNum p" results.txt | cut -d ":" -f2 | sed "s/\"//g;s/ //;s/\,//";`
}