#cloudflare #ddns #updater

app cloudflare-ddns-updater

tiny applet to update Cloudflare DNS A records for your domain

3 stable releases

Uses new Rust 2024

2.0.0 May 9, 2025
1.1.0 Feb 21, 2025
1.0.0 Dec 21, 2024

#323 in Network programming

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166 downloads per month

MIT license

12KB
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Cloudflare DDNS updater

Tiny applet to update Cloudflare DNS A records for your domain.

It is recommended to use a service to restart the program on a regular interval, for example systemd on Linux or Task Scheduler on Windows.


Config

The configuration is stored using the .toml format in the OS-specific config directory.

Location

OS Path
Linux $HOME/.config/cloudflare-ddns-updater/config.toml
Windows %APPDATA%/cloudflare-ddns-updater/config.toml

Entries

Key Type Required Description Default
auth_key String yes Cloudflare authentication key
My Profile > API Tokens > Create Token > Edit zone DNS (template)
auth_email String yes Cloudflare account Email
zone_id String yes Cloudflare zone ID
Websites > (Your website) > Overview > API (bottom right) > Zone ID
patterns Vec<String> List of glob-patterns to match the DNS record name with
invert_patterns bool Inverts the effect of patterns
ip_src Vec<String> List of URLs used for fetching the external IPv4 ipv4.icanhazip.com
api.ipify.org
http_timeout_s u64 Timeout for all HTTP requests in seconds 10

Dependencies

~11–20MB
~287K SLoC