Purge zone versions via API
To purge zone versions via the Cloudflare API, follow these steps:
First, retrieve your zone's environment ID by sending a request to the following API endpoint:
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<zone_id>/environments
This API call will return a JSON response similar to the example below:
{ "result": { "environments": [ { "name": "Production", "ref": "12abcd3e45f678940a573f51834a54", "version": 0, "expression": "(cf.zone.name eq \"example.com\")", "locked_on_deployment": false, "position": { "before": "5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c" } }, { "name": "Staging", "ref": "5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c", "version": 0, "expression": "((cf.edge.server_ip in {1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8})) and (cf.zone.name eq \"example.com\")", "locked_on_deployment": false, "position": { "before": "49f0bad299687c62334182178bfd", "after": "12abcd3e45f678940a573f51834a54" } }, { "name": "Development", "ref": "49f0bad299687c62334182178bfd", "version": 0, "expression": "((any(http.request.cookies[\"development\"][*] eq \"true\"))) and (cf.zone.name eq \"example.com\")", "locked_on_deployment": false, "position": { "after": "5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c" } } ] }, "success": true, "errors": [], "messages": []}
In this particular example, we have three environments: Production, Staging, and Development. You can find the environment ID in the ref
field.
To purge the Production environment, use the general cache purge endpoint:
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<zone_id>/purge_cache/
To purge non-production environments, you must use a new purge_cache
endpoint and specify the environment you would like to purge.
To purge the Staging environment from the example above, send a request to the following endpoint:
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<zone_id>/environments/5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c/purge_cache/
To purge the Development environment from the example above, send a request to the following endpoint:
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/<zone_id>/environments/49f0bad299687c62334182178bfd/purge_cache/