nic-api 0.4.0

NIC.RU API wrapper library

The package is a wrapper for the API of Russian DNS registrar Ru-Center (a.k.a. NIC.RU). The library provides classes for managing DNS services, zones and records.

Installation

Using pip:

pip install nic-api

If you want to use the module in your project, add this line to the project’s requirements.txt file:

nic-api

Usage

Initialization

To start using the API, you should get a pair of OAuth application login and password from NIC.RU. Here is the registration page: https://www.nic.ru/manager/oauth.cgi?step=oauth.app_register

Create an instance of nic_api.DnsApi and provide the OAuth application credentials:

from nic_api import DnsApi
app_login = "your_application_login"
app_password = "your_application_secret"
api = DnsApi(app_login, app_password)

Authorization

Call the get_token() method and specify the username and the password for your NIC.RU account:

api.get_token(
    username="Your_account/NIC-D",
    password="Your_password",
)

Now you are ready to use the API.

While the token is valid, you don’t need to provide neither client username or password to access the API – just create an instance of the DnsApi class with the same OAuth config, and pass the cached token as token parameter:

api = DnsApi(app_login, app_password, token)

You can add a callback to cache the token with token_updater_clb parameter.

Viewing services and DNS zones

In the NIC.RU, DNS zones are located in “services”:

api.services()

Usually, there is one service per account. Let’s view available zones in the service MY_SERVICE:

api.zones("MY_SERVICE")

Always check if the zone has any uncommitted changes to it before making any modifications - your commit will apply other changes too!

Getting DNS records

For viewing or modifying records, you need to specify both service and DNS zone name:

api.records("MY_SERIVCE", "example.com")

Creating a record

To add a record, create an instance of one of the nic_api.models.DNSRecord subclasses, i.e. ARecord:

from nic_api.models import ARecord
record_www = ARecord(name="www", a="8.8.8.8", ttl=3600)

Add this record to the zone and commit the changes:

api.add_record(record_www, "MY_SERVICE", "example.com")
api.commit("MY_SERVICE", "example.com")

Deleting a record

Every record in the zone has an unique ID, and it’s accessible via DNSRecord.id property. When you got the ID, pass it to the delete_record method:

api.delete_record(100000, "MY_SERVICE", "example.com")
api.commit("MY_SERVICE", "example.com")

Do not forget to always commit the changes!

Default service and zone

The service and zone parameters can be optional in all DnsApi methods, if you set default_service and default_zone properties:

api.default_service = "MY_SERVICE"
api.default_zone = "example.com"

api.delete_record(100000)  # service or zone are not needed
api.commit()               # the same for commit() method