Update a User Agent Blocking rule

firewall.ua_rules.update(, ) -> UARuleUpdateResponse

PUT/zones/{zone_id}/firewall/ua_rules/{ua_rule_id}

Updates an existing User Agent Blocking rule.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Firewall Services Write

ParametersExpand Collapse

zone_id: str

Defines an identifier.

maxLength32

ua_rule_id: str

The unique identifier of the User Agent Blocking rule.

maxLength32

configuration: Configuration

The rule configuration.

One of the following:

class AccessRuleIPConfiguration: …

target: Optional[Literal["ip"]]

The configuration target. You must set the target to ip when specifying an IP address in the rule.

value: Optional[str]

The IP address to match. This address will be compared to the IP address of incoming requests.

class IPV6Configuration: …

target: Optional[Literal["ip6"]]

The configuration target. You must set the target to ip6 when specifying an IPv6 address in the rule.

value: Optional[str]

The IPv6 address to match.

class AccessRuleCIDRConfiguration: …

target: Optional[Literal["ip_range"]]

The configuration target. You must set the target to ip_range when specifying an IP address range in the rule.

value: Optional[str]

The IP address range to match. You can only use prefix lengths /16 and /24 for IPv4 ranges, and prefix lengths /32, /48, and /64 for IPv6 ranges.

class ASNConfiguration: …

target: Optional[Literal["asn"]]

The configuration target. You must set the target to asn when specifying an Autonomous System Number (ASN) in the rule.

value: Optional[str]

The AS number to match.

class CountryConfiguration: …

target: Optional[Literal["country"]]

The configuration target. You must set the target to country when specifying a country code in the rule.

value: Optional[str]

The two-letter ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 code to match. For more information, refer to IP Access rules: Parameters.

mode: Literal["block", "challenge", "whitelist", 2 more]

The action to apply to a matched request.

One of the following:

"block"

"challenge"

"whitelist"

"js_challenge"

"managed_challenge"

description: Optional[str]

An informative summary of the rule. This value is sanitized and any tags will be removed.

maxLength1024

paused: Optional[bool]

When true, indicates that the rule is currently paused.

ReturnsExpand Collapse

class UARuleUpdateResponse: …

id: Optional[str]

The unique identifier of the User Agent Blocking rule.

maxLength32

configuration: Optional[Configuration]

The configuration object for the current rule.

target: Optional[str]

The configuration target for this rule. You must set the target to ua for User Agent Blocking rules.

value: Optional[str]

The exact user agent string to match. This value will be compared to the received User-Agent HTTP header value.

description: Optional[str]

An informative summary of the rule.

maxLength1024

mode: Optional[Literal["block", "challenge", "js_challenge", "managed_challenge"]]

The action to apply to a matched request.

maxLength12

One of the following:

"block"

"challenge"

"js_challenge"

"managed_challenge"

paused: Optional[bool]

When true, indicates that the rule is currently paused.

Update a User Agent Blocking rule

import os
from cloudflare import Cloudflare

client = Cloudflare(
    api_token=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
ua_rule = client.firewall.ua_rules.update(
    ua_rule_id="372e67954025e0ba6aaa6d586b9e0b59",
    zone_id="023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
    configuration={},
    mode="challenge",
)
print(ua_rule.id)

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "372e67954025e0ba6aaa6d586b9e0b59",
    "configuration": {
      "target": "ua",
      "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4"
    },
    "description": "Prevent access from abusive clients identified by this User Agent to mitigate a DDoS attack",
    "mode": "js_challenge",
    "paused": false
  },
  "success": true
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": "372e67954025e0ba6aaa6d586b9e0b59",
    "configuration": {
      "target": "ua",
      "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4"
    },
    "description": "Prevent access from abusive clients identified by this User Agent to mitigate a DDoS attack",
    "mode": "js_challenge",
    "paused": false
  },
  "success": true
}