Create a Cloudflare D1 database and run SQL queries against it over the REST API rather than a Worker binding
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Documented steps
Create an API token with 'D1 Write' (Account > D1 > Edit) and note your account_id.
Create the database: POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/d1/database with `Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN` and `Content-Type: application/json`. Body {"name":"my-database"} plus optional "jurisdiction" (eu | fedramp), "primary_location_hint" (wnam | enam | weur | eeur | apac | oc), "read_replication":{"mode":"auto"|"disabled"}.
Save result.uuid from {"success":true,"result":{"uuid":"<database_id>","name":...,"version":"production","num_tables":0,"file_size":0,"read_replication":{...}}} — that uuid is the {database_id} for every later call.
Query with rows as objects: POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/d1/database/{database_id}/query with body {"sql":"SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE CompanyName = ?","params":["Bs Beverages"]}. Positional '?' placeholders bind in order from the params array (SQLite semantics). Always bind parameters rather than interpolating strings.
Run several statements in one call with the batch form: {"batch":[{"sql":"...","params":[...]},{"sql":"..."}]}. Each statement is subject to the same per-statement limits as a single query.
Read the response: {"success":true,"result":[{"success":true,"meta":{"changed_db","changes","duration","last_row_id","rows_read","rows_written","served_by_colo","served_by_primary","served_by_region","size_after","timings"},"results":[{row object}]}]} — one entry per statement executed.
For performance-sensitive reads use POST .../d1/database/{database_id}/raw with the identical body shape; it returns rows as arrays: results becomes {"columns":[...],"rows":[[...],[...]]} instead of an array of row objects.
Toggle read replication later with PUT https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/d1/database/{database_id} and body {"read_replication":{"mode":"auto"}} (or "disabled"); GET the same URL to read back result.read_replication.mode. Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/d1/subresources/database/methods/create/ , .../methods/query/ , .../methods/raw/ , https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/limits/ , https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/best-practices/read-replication/
Known gotchas
Documented D1 limits: max SQL statement 100,000 bytes (applies per statement even inside a batch), max 100 bound parameters per query, max query duration 30 seconds, max string/BLOB/row 2,000,000 bytes, max database size 10 GB on Workers Paid and 500 MB on Free.
The Sessions API is only available via the D1 Worker binding, not the REST API — REST callers cannot get bookmark-based read-after-write consistency across replicas.
Disabling read replication takes up to 24 hours for all replicas to stop serving requests.
Cloudflare positions the D1 REST API as best suited to administrative use because the global Cloudflare API rate limit applies to it, unlike the in-Worker binding — do not put it on a hot request path.
/raw and /query return different result shapes (columns+rows arrays vs. row objects), so client parsers must branch on which endpoint was called.
Both {account_id} and {database_id} (the create response's result.uuid, not the database name) are required path parameters on every query, raw, get and update call.
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