Create a relay

POST/accounts/{account_id}/moq/relays

Provisions a new MoQ relay instance. Auto-creates a publish+subscribe token and a subscribe-only token. Token values are included in the response (shown once). Config is set to defaults (lingering subscribe enabled, 30s ceiling, origin fallback off). Use PUT to modify.

Security

API Token

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

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

account_id: string

Cloudflare account identifier.

Body ParametersJSONExpand Collapse

name: string

Human-readable name for the relay.

ReturnsExpand Collapse

errors: array of object { code, message }

code: optional number

message: optional string

messages: array of object { code, message }

code: optional number

message: optional string

success: boolean

result: optional object { config, created, modified, 4 more }

Relay with auto-generated tokens (shown once).

config: object { lingering_subscribe, origin_fallback }

origin_fallback and lingering_subscribe are mutually exclusive.

lingering_subscribe: optional object { enabled, max_timeout_ms }

enabled: optional boolean

max_timeout_ms: optional number

Relay-level ceiling on lingering subscribe timeout (ms). Default 30000.

maximum300000

minimum0

origin_fallback: optional object { enabled, origins }

enabled: optional boolean

origins: optional array of object { url }

Ordered list of upstream origin relays. Each entry is an object (not a bare string) so per-origin configuration can be added in the future without another breaking change.

url: optional string

Upstream origin relay URL.

created: string

formatdate-time

modified: string

formatdate-time

name: string

token_publish_subscribe: string

Full access token (publish + subscribe). Treat as sensitive.

token_subscribe: string

Subscribe-only token. Treat as sensitive.

uid: string

Server-generated unique identifier (32 hex chars).

Create a relay

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/moq/relays \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
    -d '{
          "name": "Production Live Stream"
        }'

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "config": {
      "lingering_subscribe": {
        "enabled": true,
        "max_timeout_ms": 0
      },
      "origin_fallback": {
        "enabled": true,
        "origins": [
          {
            "url": "url"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "created": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "modified": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "name": "Production Live Stream",
    "token_publish_subscribe": "eyJhbGciOiJFZDI1NTE5...",
    "token_subscribe": "eyJhbGciOiJFZDI1NTE5...",
    "uid": "a1b2c3d4e5f67890a1b2c3d4e5f67890"
  }
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "config": {
      "lingering_subscribe": {
        "enabled": true,
        "max_timeout_ms": 0
      },
      "origin_fallback": {
        "enabled": true,
        "origins": [
          {
            "url": "url"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "created": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "modified": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "name": "Production Live Stream",
    "token_publish_subscribe": "eyJhbGciOiJFZDI1NTE5...",
    "token_subscribe": "eyJhbGciOiJFZDI1NTE5...",
    "uid": "a1b2c3d4e5f67890a1b2c3d4e5f67890"
  }
}