Cloudflare PUT API only keeps last subdomain

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i wrote this Cloudflare dns updater in python:

 

 

def update_subdomain(subdomain, ext_ip, proxied=True):
zone_id = get_zone_id() #correct
identifier = get_identifier(subdomain) #correct
url = f"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/{zone_id}/dns_records/{identifier}" #correct url

payload = {
"content": ext_ip,
"name": subdomain,
"type": "A",
"comment": "Automatically updated by Cloudflare.py",
"ttl": 1,
"proxied": proxied
}

headers = get_headers() #correct auth headers

response = requests.request("PUT", url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json()) # -> {'result': {'id': 'XXX', 'zone_id': 'XXX', 'zone_name': 'XXX', 'name': 'XXX', 'type': 'A', 'content': 'XXX', 'proxiable': True, 'proxied': False, 'ttl': 1, 'locked': False, 'meta': {'auto_added': False, 'managed_by_apps': False, 'managed_by_argo_tunnel': False, 'source': 'primary'}, 'comment': 'Automatically updated by Cloudflare.py', 'tags': [], 'created_on': '2023-10-09T08:12:39.52179Z', 'modified_on': '2023-12-09T22:46:19.848655Z'}, 'success': True, 'errors': [], 'messages': []}

 

When i call this function:

 

update_subdomain("test", 1.2.3.4, True)

 

it works completly fine and the record shows up in teh dashbord and works.

 

but when i call it again with a different subdomain but the same external ip address:

update_subdomain("test2", 1.2.3.4, True)

it removes the previous record for test.example.com and overwrites it with test2.example.com.

 

i want to update the ip address for a record if that record exists and if it dopesnt exist yet, add that record.

How do i do that?