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In the case of HTTPS DDoS attacks, service providers only see encrypted payloads leaving their network without any possibility to decrypt or understand if it is malicious or legitimate traffic. However, Cloudflare can see an entire attack and all of its sources if the attack targets an Internet property that uses Cloudflare's services. This global view can help service providers stop the abusers.
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For more details, refer to [How DDoS protection works](/ddos-protection/about/how-ddos-protection-works/).
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## Availability
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The Cloudflare DDoS Botnet Threat Feed is available for free to service providers. For more information, refer to the [Terms of Use](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/service-specific-terms-application-services/#ddos-botnet-threat-feed).
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4. On the list of ASNs configured for your threat feed, select **Add ASN**.
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5. You will be redirected to the PeeringDB authentication page, where you can log in and consent to share the affiliation data with us. You will be redirected back to the configuration page once it is successful.
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:::note
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You can add multiple ASNs to your threat feed.
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### 2. Obtain Cloudflare API token
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You must [obtain a Cloudflare API token](/fundamentals/api/get-started/create-token/) with at least the following account-level permission:
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- The API URI path is planned to change from `.../botnet_feed/...` to `.../ddos_botnet_feed/...` in the future.
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- Responses with no IP addresses in the results (empty state) will return an `HTTP 200` status code (success), with an empty list in the `result` property.
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- When the response is a success but the result is `0` or `null`, this means that there are no detected offenses.
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To invoke an API endpoint, append the operation endpoint to the Cloudflare API base URL:

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