Python script for updating Dreamhost.com DNS custom records.
This is a simple python script for updating the DNS Custom Records in Dreamhost.com Nameservers using Dreamhost API commands.
Provided under the MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for details.
Python 3 with urllib. Should be installed by default, if not use your package manager.
No arguments needed, everything is included in the script itself. Unfortunately, this means that if you want to update several domains you must use different copies of this script.
Script requires API_key and domain variables to be filled in. API_Key is the
API Key you have created in Dreamhost's control panel (it must have permission
for the DNS commands). domain is the DNS record to be updated, eg.
myawesomedyndomain.example.com.
Script runs from CLI in the usual way, eg.:
python3 /path/to/script/dreampy_dns.py
or you can run it as it is (make sure you make it executable):
./dreampy_dns.py
You can update your domain with an IPv6 (AAAA) record also, if you would like to do so. In that case, CHECKIPV6 variable must be set to anything other than the default 0.
The script may seem a bit crude and dirty -and it is. This is a script I wrote for personal use
when I had minimal experience with Python and I decided to make it publicly available, in case anyone else needed it.
If memory serves, this project started when a similar script I was using and was written in Perl stopped working around 2012. So, I decided to write my own script to update my dynamic IP address home server domain.
As of January 2019 I am no longer using Dreamhost so I can't verify anymore that it does work. However, APIs do not change often, and I hope that this little piece of code will be useful for many more years to anyone that needs it.
Thanks to pfidr34 for his commits.
Special thanks to Bryan Sutula for his feedback, his commits and for validating my changes worked correctly.
No serious (if any) bugs reported. If you find one, and corrected it, please make a pull request. If you don't know how to correct it, you can raise an issue on github.
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