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PUT /v1/sites/{siteId}/geo-restriction
Restrict this site to chosen countries, or refuse named ones.
Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. This endpoint does not state a specific permission in the specification, so give your key the least it needs and check the response rather than assuming.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X PUT https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/sites/{siteId}/geo-restriction \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "mode": <string<off, allow, block>>, "countries": <string[]> }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
**Convergent, and `mode` plus `countries` must be sent together.** The same list means "only these may enter" under `allow` and "only these are refused" under `block`, so a partial update that changed one field would invert who can reach the site without naming a country. **The rule is pushed to every layer that can carry it** — the CDN edge where the provider supports it, and the origin. A provider that cannot express the requested direction is reported in `edge.detail` and the rule is never quietly narrowed to fit it. When *no* layer can carry it the call is refused with `422` rather than storing an intent nothing enforces. **`exempt_search_engines` defaults to `true`, and you usually want it.** A single-country allow-list otherwise blocks Googlebot, which crawls from US addresses, and removes the site from search. It is honoured only where the provider verifies the crawler by forward/reverse DNS; `search_engines_exempt_at_edge` reports whether it is actually in force, which is not the same as whether it was requested. **This is a customer-visible, revenue-affecting switch** — a wrong country refuses every real visitor to a live site. Clients must confirm before sending, and every call is audit-logged with the acting principal. Requires **both** `hosting.cdn.manage` and `sites.panel_access`.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
siteId (path) | Uuid | Yes | Site ID (UUIDv7). |
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
mode | string<off, allow, block> | Yes | — |
countries | string[] | Yes | ISO-3166 alpha-2. Must name at least one country unless `mode` is `off`; an empty allow-list would take the site off the internet worldwide and is refused. |
exempt_search_engines | boolean | No | Leave verified search-engine crawlers able to reach the site. Defaults to `true`: a single-country allow-list otherwise removes the site from search, because Googlebot crawls fr… |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
mode | string<off, allow, block> | Yes | `allow` admits **only** the listed countries and refuses everywhere else; `block` refuses the listed ones and serves everywhere else; `off` is no rule at all. |
countries | string[] | Yes | ISO-3166 alpha-2, upper-case. Empty when `mode` is `off`. |
exempt_search_engines | boolean | Yes | Whether verified search-engine crawlers were asked to bypass the rule. |
search_engines_exempt_at_edge | boolean | Yes | Whether that exemption is actually **in force**, which is not the same as whether it was requested — only a provider that verifies a crawler by forward/reverse DNS can carry it.… |
edge | GeoRestrictionLayer | Yes | What ONE enforcement layer can do, and what it is doing right now. Four fields rather than one flag because "this provider cannot do it" and "it failed this morning" need differ… |
origin | GeoRestrictionLayer | Yes | What ONE enforcement layer can do, and what it is doing right now. Four fields rather than one flag because "this provider cannot do it" and "it failed this morning" need differ… |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 404 · 422 · 429