cloudflare

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Query Cloudflare HTTP analytics AND manage security rules across zones. Traffic investigation (top IPs, paths, user agents, bot scores, timelines, scrape analysis) plus export and port of Custom Rules + Rate Limit Rules between zones (e.g. civitai.com -> civitai.red).

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Cloudflare Analytics + Rule Management

Query Cloudflare HTTP traffic analytics and manage security rules (Custom Rules, Rate Limit Rules) across zones. The CF_API_TOKEN in .env needs Zone Analytics: Read for analytics, and Zone WAF: Edit for rule management.

Running Commands

node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs <command> [options]

Commands

Command	Description
`top-clients`	Top IPs by request count
`top-paths`	Top request paths
`top-agents`	Top user agents
`timeline`	Requests per minute timeline (bar chart)
`ip <addr>`	Full breakdown for a specific IP (paths, UAs, statuses, geo)
`scrape`	Full scrape analysis — top IPs, paths, UAs + detail on high-volume IPs
`bot-scores`	Bot score distribution
`bot-clients`	Top clients with low bot scores (likely bots)
`firewall`	Recent firewall/WAF events
`rate-limits`	Current rate limit rules
`waf-rules`	Current WAF custom rules
`list-zones`	List all accessible zones (id, name, plan)
`export-rules <zone>`	Dump Custom Rules + Rate Limit Rules from a zone
`port-rules`	Copy rules between zones (dry-run by default)

Flags

Flag	Description
`--start`, `--from`	Start time: relative (`-1h`, `-2d`, `-30m`), time (`16:41`), or ISO datetime
`--end`, `--to`	End time (default: now)
`--limit`	Max results (default: 20)
`--path`	Filter by path pattern using SQL LIKE (`/api/%`, `/api/trpc/%`)
`--ip`	Filter by client IP
`--score`	Max bot score for `bot-clients` (default: 10)
`--source`, `--target`	Zone name or id (used by `port-rules`)
`--phase`	`custom`, `ratelimit`, or `all` (default) for rule commands
`--out`	Write `export-rules` output to a JSON file
`--skip-disabled`	When porting, skip rules with `enabled: false`
`--skip-hosts`	Comma-separated list of hosts; rules referencing them are skipped
`--rewrite-host FROM:TO`	Replace `"FROM"` with `"TO"` in rule expressions during port
`--only`	Comma-separated substrings; only port rules whose description matches
`--pro-compat`	Strip Enterprise-only syntax to fit Pro/Free target zones (see below)
`--apply`	Actually write. Without this, `port-rules` is a dry run

Examples

# Full scrape analysis for a time window
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs scrape --start "2026-03-24 16:41" --end "2026-03-24 19:08"

# Top IPs hitting API endpoints in the last 2 hours
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs top-clients --start -2h --path "/api/%"

# What paths is a specific IP hitting?
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs ip 1.2.3.4 --start -6h

# Traffic timeline for API/trpc routes
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs timeline --start -1h --path "/api/trpc/%"

# Find likely bots (low bot score) hitting API
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs bot-clients --start -3h --score 5 --path "/api/%"

# Top user agents on search-related paths
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs top-agents --start -2h --path "/api/trpc/image%"

# Check current rate limit rules
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs rate-limits

# List all zones (id, name, plan)
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs list-zones

# Export civitai.com rules (custom + rate limit) to a file
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs export-rules civitai.com --out com-rules.json

# Dry-run a port from civitai.com to civitai.red — preview only
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs port-rules \
  --source civitai.com --target civitai.red \
  --skip-disabled \
  --skip-hosts api.civitai.com,metrics.civitai.com,education.civitai.com,image.civitai.com,meilisearch-v1-9.civitai.com,meilisearch-v1-6.civitai.com,meilisearch-metrics.civitai.com \
  --rewrite-host civitai.com:civitai.red \
  --pro-compat

# Same thing, but actually write it (REPLACES target rulesets wholesale)
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs port-rules \
  --source civitai.com --target civitai.red \
  --skip-disabled \
  --skip-hosts api.civitai.com,metrics.civitai.com,education.civitai.com,image.civitai.com,meilisearch-v1-9.civitai.com,meilisearch-v1-6.civitai.com,meilisearch-metrics.civitai.com \
  --rewrite-host civitai.com:civitai.red \
  --pro-compat \
  --apply

# Port only specific rules (match by description substring)
node .claude/skills/cloudflare/query.mjs port-rules \
  --source civitai.com --target civitai.red --phase ratelimit \
  --only "Global Limit,Rate limit trpc (No Regex)" \
  --rewrite-host civitai.com:civitai.red \
  --pro-compat --apply

Porting Security Rules Between Zones

port-rules replaces the target zone's Custom Rules ruleset and/or Rate Limit Rules entrypoint with a filtered + transformed copy of the source zone's rules. It overwrites the target ruleset — existing rules on the target are wiped.

What gets ported

The Cloudflare "Security Rules" surface maps to two phase entrypoints:

Phase	UI name	Flag value
`http_request_firewall_custom`	Custom Rules	`--phase custom`
`http_ratelimit`	Rate Limit Rules	`--phase ratelimit`

Managed Rules, IP Access Rules, Zone Lockdown, and User Agent Blocking are not ported.

Filters

Without filters, every rule from the source is copied as-is.

--skip-disabled drops rules where enabled: false.
--skip-hosts host1,host2 drops any rule whose expression literal-matches one of the listed hosts (useful for source-only subdomains that don't exist on the target zone).
--only pat1,pat2 keeps only rules whose description contains one of the given substrings.
--rewrite-host FROM:TO rewrites "FROM" → "TO" inside rule expressions after the skip filter runs. Use this to point apex-host rules at the new zone (civitai.com:civitai.red).

Pro-plan / Free-plan compatibility (`--pro-compat`)

Cloudflare Pro zones reject several Enterprise-only rule features that are commonly used on Business/Enterprise source zones. When the target zone plan is pro or free, --pro-compat is applied automatically; otherwise pass it explicitly. Transforms:

IP list exclusions: and not ip.src in {…} / and ip.src in {…} clauses are stripped. Pro zones don't support ip.src in expressions in rate-limit rules.
Bot management checks: and not cf.bot_management.verified_bot / and cf.bot_management.verified_bot clauses are stripped (Bot Management is an Enterprise feature).
Rate-limit period: Pro only allows periods in [10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 45, 60] seconds. Rules with longer periods (e.g. 300s) are scaled to 60s and the requests_per_period is scaled proportionally to preserve the same req/s rate.
requests_to_origin: stripped (Enterprise-only).

Each transform is reported in the dry-run output as a ~ line so you can review them before applying.

Rule-count limits

Target zone plans cap the number of rules per phase. If the port exceeds the cap, Cloudflare returns exceeded the maximum number of rules in the phase X: N out of M. Common caps:

Plan	Custom Rules	Rate Limit Rules
Free	5	1
Pro	20	2
Business	100	15
Enterprise	1000+	1000+

Use --only or manually trim the source rule list if you hit the cap.

Known constraints

ref is stripped on write so rules are re-id'd on the target. This means subsequent ports between the same two zones replace wholesale, not diff-and-merge.
Managed Rules, IP Access Rules, Zone Lockdown, User Agent Blocking, and legacy Firewall Rules are not ported.
Account-scoped custom lists (e.g. $attackers, $bandwidth_theft) work across zones in the same account with no change.