Why using Lexicon?

Lexicon provides a way to manipulate DNS records on multiple DNS providers in a standardized way.

Lexicon can be used as:

• a CLI tool:

# Create a TXT entry in domain.net zone hosted by CloudFlare
lexicon cloudflare create domain.net TXT --name foo --content bar

• or a Python library:

# Create a TXT entry in domain.net zone hosted by CloudFlare
from lexicon.client import Client
from lexicon.config import ConfigResolver

action = {
    "provider_name" : "cloudflare",
    "action": "create",
    "domain": "domain.net",
    "type": "TXT",
    "name": "foo",
    "content": "bar",
}
config = ConfigResolver().with_env().with_dict(action)
Client(config).execute()

Lexicon was designed to be used in automation, specifically letsencrypt.

• Generating Intranet & Private Network SSL Certificates using Lets Encrypt & Lexicon

Supported providers

Only DNS providers who have an API can be supported by lexicon.

The current supported providers are:

• Aliyun.com

• AuroraDNS

• AWS Route53

• Azure DNS

• Cloudflare

• ClouDNS

• CloudXNS

• ConoHa

• Constellix

• DigitalOcean

• Dinahosting

• DirectAdmin

• DNSimple v1, v2

• DnsMadeEasy

• DNSPark

• DNSPod

• Dreamhost

• Dynu

• EasyDNS

• Easyname

• EUserv

• ExoScale

• Gandi RPC (old) / LiveAPI

• Gehirn

• Glesys

• GoDaddy

• Google Cloud DNS

• Gransy (sites subreg.cz, regtons.com and regnames.eu)

• Hover

• Hurricane Electric DNS

• Hetzner

• Infoblox

• Internet.bs

• INWX

• Joker.com

• Linode

• Linode v4

• LuaDNS

• Memset

• Njalla

• Namecheap

• Namesilo

• Netcup

• NFSN (NearlyFreeSpeech)

• NS1

• OnApp

• Online

• OVH

• Plesk

• PointHQ

• PowerDNS

• Rackspace

• Rage4

• RcodeZero

• Sakura Cloud by SAKURA Internet Inc.

• SafeDNS by UKFast

• SoftLayer

• Subreg (deprecated, use Gransy)

• Transip

• UltraDNS

• Vultr

• Yandex

• Zeit

• Zilore

• Zonomi

Documentation

Online documentation (user guide, configuration reference) is available in the Lexicon documentation.

For a quick start, please have a look in particular at the User guide.

Contributing

If you want to help in the Lexicon development, you are welcome!

Please have a look at the Developer guide page to know how to start.

Licensing

• MIT

• Logo: transform by Mike Rowe from the Noun Project