Python DNSimple

Introduction

This is a client for the DNSimple REST API. It currently allows you to fetch existing domain info, as well as register new domains and manage domain records.

Getting started

You'll need the json module that is included with python version 2.6 and later, or the simplejson module if you are using an earlier version.

Import the module:

from dnsimple import DNSimple

You can provide your DNSimple credentials in one of two ways:

1. Provide username/password or email/api_token credentials programmatically:

    # Use username/password authentication: HTTP Basic
    dns = DNSimple(username=YOUR_USERNAME, password=YOUR_PASSWORD)
   
    # Use email/api_token credentials
    dns = DNSimple(email=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS, api_token=YOUR_API_TOKEN)
   

2. Store you username/password credentials in a file called .dnsimple in the current directory with the following data:

    username: email@domain.com
    password: yourpassword
   

   You then need not provide any credentials when constructing DNSimple:

   dns = DNSimple()

Domain Operations

Check out your existing domains:

Just run:

domains = dns.domains()

Results appear as a Python dict:

{'domain': {'created_at': '2010-10-14T09:45:32Z',
            'expires_at': '10/14/2011 5:45:00 AM',
            'id': 999,
            'last_enom_order_id': None,
            'name': 'yourdomain.com',
            'name_server_status': 'active',
            'registrant_id': 99,
            'registration_status': 'registered',
            'updated_at': '2010-10-14T10:00:14Z',
            'user_id': 99}},
{'domain': {'created_at': '2010-10-15T16:02:34Z',
            'expires_at': '10/15/2011 12:02:00 PM',
            'id': 999,
            'last_enom_order_id': None,
            'name': 'anotherdomain.com',
            'name_server_status': 'active',
            'registrant_id': 99,
            'registration_status': 'registered',
            'updated_at': '2010-10-15T16:30:16Z',
            'user_id': 99}}]

Get details for a specific domain

dns.domain('mikemaccana.com')

Results are the same as domains() above, but only show the domain specified.

Check whether a domain is available

dns.check('google.com')

# Hmm, looks like I'm too late to get that one...
{u'currency': u'USD',
 u'currency_symbol': u'$',
 u'minimum_number_of_years': 1,
 u'name': u'google.com',
 u'price': u'14.00',
 u'status': u'unavailable'}

Register a new domain

dns.register('newdomain.com')

This will register 'newdomain.com', automatically picking the registrant_id from your first domain. To specify a particularly registrant\_id, just run:

dns.register('newdomain.com', 99)

Responses will be in a dictionary describing the newly created domain, same as the domain() call above.

Delete a domain

Careful with this one!

dns.delete('domain-to-die.com')

Record operations

All operations on domain records are now supported:

• List records: records(id_or_domainname)
• Get record details: record(id_or_domainname, record_id)
• Add record: add_record(id_or_domainname, data)
• Update record: update_record(id_or_domainname, record_id, data)
• Delete record: delete_record(id_or_domainname, record_id)

License

Licensed under the MIT license