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Delete a rule in a ruleset

Deletes a single rule in a ruleset at the account or zone level.

Use one of the following API endpoints:

OperationMethod + Endpoint
Delete an individual rule (account)DELETE /accounts/{account-id}/rulesets/{ruleset-id}/rules/{rule-id}
Delete an individual rule (zone)DELETE /zones/{zone-id}/rulesets/{ruleset-id}/rules/{rule-id}

If the delete operation succeeds, the API method call returns a 200 OK HTTP status code with the complete ruleset in the response body.

Example

The following example deletes rule {rule-id-1} belonging to ruleset {ruleset-id}.

Request
curl -X DELETE \
  -H "X-Auth-Email: user@example.com" \
  -H "X-Auth-Key: REDACTED" \
  "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account-id}/rulesets/{ruleset-id}/rules/{rule-id-1}"
Response
{
  "result": {
    "id": "{ruleset-id}",
    "name": "Custom Ruleset 1",
    "description": "My first custom ruleset",
    "kind": "custom",
    "version": "12",
    "rules": [
      {
        "id": "{rule-id-2}",
        "version": "2",
        "action": "js_challenge",
        "expression": "(ip.geoip.country eq \"GB\" or ip.geoip.country eq \"FR\") or cf.threat_score > 0",
        "description": "challenge GB and FR or based on IP Reputation",
        "last_updated": "2021-07-22T12:54:58.144683Z",
        "ref": "{rule-ref-2}",
        "enabled": true
      }
    ],
    "last_updated": "2021-07-22T12:54:58.144683Z",
    "phase": "http_request_firewall_custom"
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": []
}

The response includes the complete ruleset after deleting the rule.