Read, write, list and delete Cloudflare Workers KV keys via the REST API, including bulk operations, expiration and metadata
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Documented steps
Collect account_id and namespace_id, and an API token with the account-scoped 'Workers KV Storage Read' and/or 'Workers KV Storage Edit' permission groups.
Read one value: GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/values/{key_name}. The response body is the raw stored value, not a JSON envelope; a missing key returns 404.
List keys: GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/keys with optional `prefix`, `limit` and `cursor`. Response: {"success":true,"result":[{"name":"...","expiration":<unix ts>,"metadata":{...}}],"result_info":{"count":N,"cursor":"<next>"}} — feed `cursor` back in to page.
Write one value: PUT https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/values/{key_name} with the raw value as the body. Append `expiration` (absolute Unix timestamp) or `expiration_ttl` (relative seconds) as query parameters to set a TTL.
Write a value with metadata: same PUT endpoint, encoded as multipart/form-data with a `value` part and a `metadata` part containing a JSON string (the endpoint is documented as 'Write key-value pair with optional metadata'). Metadata cannot be attached through a plain raw-body write.
Bulk write: PUT https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/bulk with `Content-Type: application/json` and a JSON array of objects [{"key":"...","value":"...","base64":false,"expiration":<ts>,"expiration_ttl":<seconds>,"metadata":{...}}].
Delete one key: DELETE https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/values/{key_name}. Percent-encode key names containing characters such as ':' , '/' or '%'.
Bulk delete: POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/storage/kv/namespaces/{namespace_id}/bulk/delete with a plain JSON array of key-name strings.
Both bulk endpoints return {"success":bool,"result":{"successful_key_count":N,"unsuccessful_keys":[...]},"errors":[],"messages":[]} — always inspect unsuccessful_keys rather than trusting the HTTP status alone. Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api/read-key-value-pairs/ , .../write-key-value-pairs/ , .../list-keys/ , .../delete-key-value-pairs/ , https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/platform/limits/
Known gotchas
KV reads are eventually consistent: a write may take up to 60 seconds (or the cacheTtl duration, minimum 30s) to become visible from other edge locations. Never write-then-immediately-read expecting the new value.
Documented size limits: key name 512 bytes, value 25 MiB, key metadata 1024 bytes. Oversized values fail rather than truncate.
The bulk API accepts up to 10,000 KV pairs per request and the entire request must be under 100 megabytes.
Writes to a single key are limited to 1 per second on both Free and Paid plans — using KV as a counter or lock will be throttled regardless of plan.
The single-value GET returns the raw value as the body, not the standard {success, errors, result} envelope used by almost every other v4 endpoint; JSON-parsing it unconditionally will break on non-JSON values.
Free-plan KV carries additional daily caps (on the order of 100,000 reads/day and 1,000 writes to different keys/day); confirm current figures on the limits page before designing around them.
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