Create a Cloudflare Pages project and push a direct-upload deployment via the API, then poll deployment status
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Documented steps
Create an API token with 'Account > Cloudflare Pages > Edit' (the 'Pages Write' scope). Pages is account-scoped; no zone permission is needed.
Create the project: POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/pages/projects with `Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>`, `Content-Type: application/json` and body {"name":"<project-name>","production_branch":"main"}. Both fields are required.
Read the envelope {"success":true,"result":{...},"errors":[],"messages":[]}; result carries id, name, production_branch, subdomain, domains, build_config, source, canonical_deployment and latest_deployment.
Build a manifest: a JSON object mapping each asset path to that file's content hash.
Create the deployment: POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/pages/projects/{project_name}/deployments as multipart/form-data with `Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>`. Required field `manifest` (the path-to-hash JSON); optional `branch`, `commit_hash`, `commit_message`, `commit_dirty`, `_worker.js` or `_worker.bundle` (mutually exclusive), `_headers`, `_redirects`, `_routes.json`.
Read the deployment result: id, url, short_id, project_name, environment ('preview' or 'production'), latest_stage {name, status} and deployment_trigger.
Poll status: GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/pages/projects/{project_name}/deployments/{deployment_id} and inspect result.latest_stage.name (queued | initialize | clone_repo | build | deploy) and result.latest_stage.status (success | idle | active | failure | canceled); result.stages holds the full pipeline history.
Treat the deployment as done only when latest_stage.name is 'deploy' and status is 'success'. Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-started/direct-upload/ , https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/pages/subresources/projects/subresources/deployments/methods/create/ , .../methods/get/
Known gotchas
The deployment POST is multipart/form-data with a required `manifest` field — sending a JSON body is rejected.
Direct Upload via Wrangler supports up to 20,000 files at 25 MiB each; dashboard drag-and-drop ZIP/folder uploads are capped at 1,000 files at 25 MiB each.
A `functions` directory (Pages Functions) must be deployed through Wrangler — a plain API or dashboard upload cannot compile it. A single `_worker.js` file works on both paths.
`environment` is derived from whether the deployed branch matches the project's production_branch set at creation time; you cannot set it directly in the deployment request.
The POST response often still shows an in-progress stage, so success must be discovered by polling the GET deployment endpoint rather than read off the create response.
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