Delete all DNS records for specified zone

cloudflare-delete-all-records.sh

#!/bin/bash

TOKEN="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
ZONE_ID=2222222222222222222222222

# EMAIL=me@gmail.com
# KEY=11111111111111111111111111
# Replace with 
#     -H "X-Auth-Email: ${EMAIL}" \
#     -H "X-Auth-Key: ${KEY}" \
# for old API keys
 

curl -s -X GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/${ZONE_ID}/dns_records?per_page=500 \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq .result[].id |  tr -d '"' | (
  while read id; do
    curl -s -X DELETE https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/${ZONE_ID}/dns_records/${id} \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json"
  done
  )

Worked a treat; thanks. But note that almost nobody will have 'jq' installed, or have even heard of it. On Deb/Ubuntu, 'apt install jq'.

Initial code has jq so I've used as well. But agree that extra tool could be missed at user's shell.

do you have script to delete specific domain ?

@pr4ns sure, I wrote this for you based on the Cloudflare REST API docs here

#!/bin/bash


# permission needed: #zone:edit
TOKEN="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
ZONE_ID=2222222222222222222222222


# EMAIL=me@gmail.com
# KEY=11111111111111111111111111
# Replace with 
#     -H "X-Auth-Email: ${EMAIL}" \
#     -H "X-Auth-Key: ${KEY}" \
# for old API keys

curl -X DELETE "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/${ZONE_ID}" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Tested and working 👍

thanks a lot. it works for me

Thanks

works perfect and thanks a lot !

Thank you! Ridiculous that you can't add a new zone without copying all the old DNS records from the previous domain owner.

Thanks,
The code works like a charm on wsl ubuntu
It took 3min to remove 600+ dns records