Overview

1. Preface

Welcome to CDNetworks products and services. you can use the CDNetworks APIs and examples described in each API document to manage product services. if you want to use API, you can self-configure on OpenAPI Explorer or contact CDNetworks technical support to open the CDNetworks API interface.
Ensure you have the right to use the API authentication key(API key or API access key) and fully understand the product description and API use method.

2.Getting Started

CDNetworks API is runnable based on HTTP(s) to create, view, modify and delete resources and add the request parameters according to the interface instructions.

Note:

CDNetworks API is a RESTful API to support JSON/XML formats and specifications to create APIs.
The default rate limit for CDNetworks API is a maximum of 300 API requests per 5 minutes.
CDNetworks API recommends API call rate for each account is 30 times/5 min for a single API interface. If you have special needs, you can contact technical support.
For tracking problem tracking and efficient communication, CDNetworks API creates an ID for each API request/action by adding an x-cnc-request-id field to the response header information to return the request ID to the customer

3. Authentication Method

All requests to CDNetworks API must be authenticated. Requests that write data require reporting access and require authentication Requests that read data require full access and also require authentication.
CDNetworks provide two authentication mechanisms: API-Key Authentication and AK/SK(Access Key/Secret Key) authentication. after checking the API-Key or AK/SK management on Console, you should check the authentication methods

AK (Access Key - it means “AccessKey ID” that is used to identify the user account
SK (Secret Key - it means “Access Key Secret”: The secret key of AccessKey ID)

Before using CDNetworks API, you should check & set up AK/SK and API-Key.

For API-key management, please refer to the API Security Management.
For AK/SK management, please refer to the Access Key Management.

For the authentication methods, you should refer to the following pages.

For using API-Key authentication method, you refer to the page - API-Key Authentication
For using AK/SK authentication method, you refer to the page - AK/SK Authentication

3.1. API-Key & AK/SK Authentication Supported Products & Services

CDN Products, Cloud-Security Products, and Cloud DNS support both API-Key Authentication and AK/SK Authentication (Access Key/Secret Key Authentication).

Category	Product Lists	Reference link
Media Delivery	Media Acceleration Media Acceleration - Live Broadcast	https://www.cdnetworks.com/web-performance/
Cloud Security	Flood Shield Application Shield Bot Shield Web Application Firewall FloodShield (for Media Acceleration)	https://www.cdnetworks.com/cloud-security/
Web Performance	Content Acceleration Dynamic Web Acceleration Download Acceleration	https://www.cdnetworks.com/web-performance/
Storage	Local Storage
Domain Service	Cloud DNS	https://www.cdnetworks.com/web-performance/cloud-dns/
Enterprise Application	E-Connect	https://www.cdnetworks.com/e-connect/
Enterprise Application	Enterprise Secure Access	https://www.cdnetworks.com/enterprise-secure-access/
Application Service	Content MGMT Log Download Certificate MGMT HTTPDNS Security Report Security Overview Cloud Monitor	Purge contents and monitor purge status Log delivery service Upload Certificates HTTP based DNS service Security Report for Cloud Security Products.

3.2. Object Storage

Before using CDNetworks Object Storage API, you should check & set up AK/SK management and check the Object Storage API Reference.

For Object Storage, please refer to the Object Storage API Reference.

3.3. Cloud-Live and Cloud VoD.

Before using Cloud-Live & Cloud VoD API, you should refer to the following API references.

For Cloud Live Product, please refer to the Cloud Live API Reference.
For Cloud VoD Product, please refer to the Cloud VoD API Reference.

4.Appendixes

ANNEX：CountryCode Value List

Introduction