dnsimple 1.0.1

Client for DNSimple REST API http://developer.dnsimple.com/overview/

Python DNSimple
===============

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## Introduction

This is a client for the [DNSimple REST API](https://developer.dnsimple.com/). It currently allows you to fetch existing domain info, as well as register new domains and manage domain records.

`dnsimple-python` works for both python 2 & 3.

**Note:** As of 1.0.0 this now uses [DNSimple's APIv2](https://blog.dnsimple.com/2016/12/api-v2-stable/). This is incompatible with older versions of the library because of authentication changes. Please review the docs and tests before deploying to production.

### 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.

`dnsimple-python` also depends on the `requests` library.

Import the module:

```python
from dnsimple import DNSimple
```

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

#### Provide email/password or api\_token credentials programmatically:

```python
# Use email/password authentication: HTTP Basic
dns = DNSimple(email=YOUR_USERNAME, password=YOUR_PASSWORD)

# Use api_token credentials
dns = DNSimple(api_token=YOUR_API_TOKEN)

# If you have many accounts you can provide account_id (661 is an example)
# You can find your account id in url (https://sandbox.dnsimple.com/a/661/account)
dns = DNSimple(email=YOUR_USERNAME, password=YOUR_PASSWORD, account_id=661)
```

##### Store you email/password or api\_token credentials in a file called `.dnsimple` in the current directory with the following data:

```
[DNSimple]
email: [e-mail]
password: yourpassword
```

Or:

```
[DNSimple]
api_token: yourapitoken
```

Or (assuming `$DNSIMPLE_EMAIL` and `$DNSIMPLE_TOKEN` are environment variables):

```
[DNSimple]
email: %(DNSIMPLE_EMAIL)s
api_token: %(DNSIMPLE_TOKEN)s
```

You then need not provide any credentials when constructing `DNSimple`:

```python
dns = DNSimple()
```

## Domain Operations

### Check out your existing domains:

Just run:

```python
domains = dns.domains()
```

Results appear as a Python dict:

```python
{'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

```python
dns.domain('mikemaccana.com')
```

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

### Check whether a domain is available

```python
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

```python
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:

```python
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!

```python
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)`

## Running Tests

Before running tests, you'll need to ensure your environment is set up correctly:

1. If you don't already have a DNSimple sandbox account, [create one](https://sandbox.dnsimple.com/signup) and make sure to have your email address, password, and API token handy.
1. Ensure you have the `virtualenv` package installed (`pip install virtualenv --upgrade`) since tests are run from this isolated environment
1. Copy the file `tests/.env.example` to `tests/.env` and supply your sandbox credentials
1. From the project root, run `make test` -- this will set up your local environment with `virutalenv`, install all necessary dependencies, and run all the tests.

## License

Licensed under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)

## Authors

* Original Author [Mike MacCana](https://github.com/mikemaccana/)
* APIv2 Support [Kirill Motkov](https://github.com/lcd1232)
* Maintainer [David Aronsohn](https://github.com/onlyhavecans)