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Cloudflare Developers•2mo ago

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Abuse Reports API returns 401 for DMCA submissions — Trusted Reporter / allowlist access?

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Hello Cloudflare team

My name is Nikolay, and I represent MIT Lawyers, a legal firm working with rightsholders on copyright enforcement.

We regularly file reports against piracy/infringing domains and URLs that appear to be using Cloudflare services (reverse proxy/CDN).

We are currently building an internal automation workflow to:

submit copyright/DMCA abuse reports, track report status, reduce manual workload for large-scale enforcement.

Problem

When we attempt to submit reports via the Cloudflare Abuse Reports API, we consistently receive:

HTTP 401 — client is not authorized to do this operation


Example response:

{
"result": "error",
"msg": "client is not authorized to do this operation"
}


Endpoint:

POST /accounts/{account_id}/abuse-reports/{report_param}
(report type: abuse_dmca)

Question

Is DMCA/copyright reporting via the Abuse Reports API currently restricted?

If yes:

What are the prerequisites to enable this capability?

Is there an allowlist / Trusted Reporter onboarding process?

Which team or channel handles access for verified reporters?

Cloudflare support redirected us only to the public Abuse Reporting Form, but our request is specifically about API authorization / trusted reporter access, not a single report.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.