# Cloudflare API Shield API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-api-shield-api/  
**Provider:** Cloudflare — https://apis.io/providers/cloudflare/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cloudflare.com  
**Documentation:** https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/

Cloudflare API Shield API is one of 87 APIs that [Cloudflare](https://apis.io/providers/cloudflare/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include API Gateway, API Security, and Schema Validation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, and an API reference.

Cloudflare API Shield provides API discovery, schema validation, and security features to protect APIs from abuse. It includes API Gateway capabilities for routing, authentication, and rate limiting, along with sequence-based fraud detection and mTLS client certificate enforcement.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/
- **GettingStarted** — https://developers.cloudflare.com/api-shield/get-started/
- **APIReference** — https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/api_gateway/

## Other Cloudflare APIs (12)

- [Cloudflare Load Balancing API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-load-balancing-api/)
- [Cloudflare WAF API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-waf-api/)
- [Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-graphql-analytics-api/)
- [Cloudflare Magic Transit API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-magic-transit-api/)
- [Cloudflare Email Routing API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-email-routing-api/)
- [Cloudflare Waiting Room API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-waiting-room-api/)
- [Cloudflare Spectrum API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-spectrum-api/)
- [Cloudflare Zero Trust API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-zero-trust-api/)
- [Cloudflare Registrar API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-registrar-api/)
- [Cloudflare Workflows API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-workflows-api/)
- [Cloudflare Browser Rendering API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-browser-rendering-api/)
- [Cloudflare Realtime API](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-realtime-api/)

## Tags

API Gateway, API Security, Schema Validation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cloudflare/cloudflare-api-shield-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cloudflare/.