/cloudflare-deploy

Snippets API Reference

Request Object

HTTP Properties

request.method    // GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
request.url       // Full URL string
request.headers   // Headers object
request.body      // ReadableStream (for POST/PUT)
request.cf        // Cloudflare properties (see below)

URL Operations

const url = new URL(request.url);
url.hostname             // "example.com"
url.pathname             // "/path/to/page"
url.search               // "?query=value"
url.searchParams.get("q") // "value"
url.searchParams.set("q", "new")
url.searchParams.delete("q")

Header Operations

// Read headers
request.headers.get("User-Agent")
request.headers.has("Authorization")
request.headers.getSetCookie() // Get all Set-Cookie headers

// Modify headers (create new request)
const modifiedRequest = new Request(request);
modifiedRequest.headers.set("X-Custom", "value")
modifiedRequest.headers.delete("X-Remove")

Cloudflare Properties (request.cf)

Access Cloudflare-specific metadata about the request:

// Geolocation
request.cf.city            // "San Francisco"
request.cf.continent       // "NA"
request.cf.country         // "US"
request.cf.region          // "California" or "CA"
request.cf.regionCode      // "CA"
request.cf.postalCode      // "94102"
request.cf.latitude        // "37.7749"
request.cf.longitude       // "-122.4194"
request.cf.timezone        // "America/Los_Angeles"
request.cf.metroCode       // "807" (DMA code)

// Network
request.cf.colo            // "SFO" (airport code of datacenter)
request.cf.asn             // 13335 (ASN number)
request.cf.asOrganization  // "Cloudflare, Inc."

// Bot Management (if enabled)
request.cf.botManagement.score        // 1-99 (1=bot, 99=human)
request.cf.botManagement.verified_bot // true/false
request.cf.botManagement.static_resource // true/false

// TLS/HTTP version
request.cf.tlsVersion      // "TLSv1.3"
request.cf.tlsCipher       // "AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256"
request.cf.httpProtocol    // "HTTP/2"

// Request metadata
request.cf.requestPriority // "weight=192;exclusive=0"

Use cases: Geo-routing, bot detection, security decisions, analytics.

Response Object

Response Constructors

// Plain text
new Response("Hello", { status: 200 })

// JSON
Response.json({ key: "value" }, { status: 200 })

// HTML
new Response("<h1>Hi</h1>", { 
  status: 200,
  headers: { "Content-Type": "text/html" }
})

// Redirect
Response.redirect("https://example.com", 301) // or 302

// Stream (pass through)
new Response(response.body, response)

Response Headers

// Create modified response
const newResponse = new Response(response.body, response);

// Set/modify headers
newResponse.headers.set("X-Custom", "value")
newResponse.headers.append("Set-Cookie", "session=abc; Path=/")
newResponse.headers.delete("Server")

// Common headers
newResponse.headers.set("Cache-Control", "public, max-age=3600")
newResponse.headers.set("Content-Type", "application/json")

Response Properties

response.status       // 200, 404, 500, etc.
response.statusText   // "OK", "Not Found", etc.
response.headers      // Headers object
response.body         // ReadableStream
response.ok           // true if status 200-299
response.redirected   // true if redirected

REST API Operations

List Snippets

GET /zones/{zone_id}/snippets

Get Snippet

GET /zones/{zone_id}/snippets/{snippet_name}

Create/Update Snippet

PUT /zones/{zone_id}/snippets/{snippet_name}
Content-Type: multipart/form-data

files=@snippet.js
metadata={"main_module":"snippet.js"}

Delete Snippet

DELETE /zones/{zone_id}/snippets/{snippet_name}

List Snippet Rules

GET /zones/{zone_id}/rulesets/phases/http_request_snippets/entrypoint

Update Snippet Rules

PUT /zones/{zone_id}/snippets/snippet_rules
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "rules": [{
    "description": "Apply snippet",
    "enabled": true,
    "expression": "http.host eq \"example.com\"",
    "snippet_name": "my_snippet"
  }]
}

Available APIs in Snippets

✅ Supported

• fetch() - HTTP requests (2-5 subrequests per plan)
• Request / Response - Standard Web APIs
• URL / URLSearchParams - URL manipulation
• Headers - Header manipulation
• TextEncoder / TextDecoder - Text encoding
• crypto.subtle - Web Crypto API (hashing, signing)
• crypto.randomUUID() - UUID generation

❌ Not Supported in Snippets

• caches API - Not available (use Workers)
• KV, D1, R2 - Storage APIs (use Workers)
• Durable Objects - Stateful objects (use Workers)
• WebSocket - WebSocket upgrades (use Workers)
• HTMLRewriter - HTML parsing (use Workers)
• import statements - No module imports
• addEventListener - Use export default { async fetch() {} pattern

Snippet Structure

export default {
  async fetch(request) {
    // Your logic here
    const response = await fetch(request);
    return response; // or modified response
  }
}