Look up a Cloudflare zone ID by domain name and list zones with filtering and pagination via the API
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Documented steps
Authenticate with an API token holding the 'Zone Read' permission scope; send it on every request as header `Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN`.
To find a zone ID by domain, call GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones?name=example.com — the `name` query parameter is an exact-match filter on the domain name (Punycode form).
For partial matching use operator suffixes: `name.contains=example`, `name.starts_with=api`, `name.ends_with=.com` (plus case-sensitive variants). Combine multiple filters with `match=any` or `match=all`.
Filter by zone state with `status` (initializing | pending | active | moved) and by zone type with `type` (comma-separated: full, partial, secondary, internal).
Sort with `order` (name | status | account.id | account.name | plan.id) and `direction` (asc | desc).
Paginate with `page` and `per_page`. The response carries a `result_info` object with page, per_page, count, total_count and total_pages — use total_pages to decide whether to fetch more.
Parse the standard envelope {"success":bool,"result":[{Zone}],"result_info":{...},"errors":[],"messages":[]}. Take result[0].id as the zone ID and result[0].status to confirm the zone is active.
Optionally re-read a single zone with GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/{zone_id}, which returns the same Zone object shape in the same envelope. Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/zones/methods/list/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/zones/methods/get/
Known gotchas
`name` is an exact match by default — a naive lookup for a subdomain or a partial string returns zero results unless you use the .contains / .starts_with / .ends_with operator suffixes.
Listing zones across more than 500 accounts is documented as not allowed; scope the token narrowly if the credential spans many accounts.
Zones of type `internal` are excluded from results unless the type is explicitly requested, so internal DNS zones can be silently missing.
Pagination metadata lives in `result_info`, not in `result` — code that only inspects `result` will silently truncate at the first page.
Zone names are always returned in Punycode even when the query used the Unicode form.
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