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title: API commands
description: API commands for managing waiting rooms.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/core-services-preview.png
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# API commands

Cloudflare Waiting Room redirect visitors to virtual waiting rooms when they are trying to access web pages that have high volumes of traffic.

The [Cloudflare Waiting Room API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/list/) provides an interface for programmatically managing waiting rooms.

## Request URL format

To invoke a [Cloudflare Waiting Room API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/list/) operation, append the endpoint to the Cloudflare API base URL:

Terminal window

```

https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4


```

For authentication instructions, refer to [Getting Started: Requests](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/) in the Cloudflare API documentation.

For help with endpoints and pagination, refer to [Getting Started: Endpoints](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/).

## Manage your waiting room

| Operation                                                                                              | Method + URL stub                                             | Notes                              |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| [List waiting rooms](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/list/)    | GET zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms                  | List all waiting rooms for a zone. |
| [Create waiting room](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/create/) | POST zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms                 | Create a waiting room.             |
| [Waiting room details](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/get/)   | GET zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms/{:identifier}    | Fetch a waiting room.              |
| [Update waiting room](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/update/) | PUT zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms/{:identifier}    | Update a waiting room.             |
| [Delete waiting room](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/delete/) | DELETE zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms/{:identifier} | Delete a waiting room.             |
| [Patch waiting room](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/methods/edit/)    | PATCH zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms/{:identifier}  | Patch a configured waiting room.   |

## Fetch the current status of a waiting room

| Operation                                                                                                                                      | Method + URL stub                                                 | Notes                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Get the current status of a waiting room](https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/waiting%5Frooms/subresources/statuses/methods/get/) | GET zones/{:zone\_identifier}/waiting\_rooms/{:identifier}/status | Returns queueing if the queue is activated (clients are put in the waiting room).Returns not\_queueing if the queue is not activated or if the waiting room is suspended. |

```json
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```