spaceship-dns-updater 0.1.0

Script to update DNS records using the spaceship API

Tool for updating DNS records for domains hosted by https://www.spaceship.com/.

This tool utilizes https://github.com/bwiessneth/spaceship-api.

The script will detect your system’s external IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses and update the configured DNS records using your Spaceship API credentials.

Installation

pip install spaceship-dns-updater

Usage

Call spaceship-dns-updater from the directory where your config file is placed.

If you have several config files, specify the one you want:

spaceship-dns-updater --config <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONFIG_FILE>

Logs

When running on Windows, the log files are located in:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\spaceship-dns-updater\logs (e.g., C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Local\spaceship-dns-updater\logs)

When using Linux/macOS, the log files are written to:

~/.local/state/spaceship-dns-updater/logs

These log files rotate automatically if they exceed 1 MB in size and are retained for up to 30 days.

🕒 Run Automatically with systemd (Linux only)

To run spaceship-dns-updater on a schedule (e.g., every 15 minutes), you can create a user-level systemd timer.

Create the following two files in ~/.config/systemd/user/:

# spaceship-dns-updater.service
[Unit]
Description=Spaceship DNS Updater

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/YOUR_NAME/spaceship-dns-updater/spaceship_dns_updater.py
WorkingDirectory=/home/YOUR_NAME/spaceship-dns-updater
StandardOutput=append:%h/.local/state/spaceship-dns-updater/logs/systemd-output.log
StandardError=append:%h/.local/state/spaceship-dns-updater/logs/systemd-error.log

# spaceship-dns-updater.timer
[Unit]
Description=Run Spaceship DNS Updater every 15 minutes

[Timer]
OnBootSec=5min
OnUnitActiveSec=5min
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Then enable and start the timer:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now spaceship-dns-updater.timer

Check status or logs with:

systemctl --user status spaceship-dns-updater.timer
journalctl --user -u spaceship-dns-updater.service

Configuration

Basic Configuration

Create a YAML config file with your domain name, API credentials, and details about the DNS record you want to update.

The most basic config looks like this:

your-domain.com:
    api_key: <YOUR_API_KEY>
    api_secret: <YOUR_API_SECRET>
    records:
        - type: "A"
        name: "@"
        ttl: 1800

Records

Note

Only DNS records of type A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) are currently supported for dynamic updates. All other record types (such as CNAME, TXT, MX, etc.) will be ignored if included in the configuration file.

For each record you want to update, add it to the list of records:

records:
    - type: "A"
    name: "@"
    ttl: 1800
    - type: "AAAA"
    name: "@"
    ttl: 1800
    - type: "A"
    name: "subdomain"
    ttl: 1800

For records of type A, the IPv4 address obtained from https://www.ipify.org/ will be used. If no IPv4 address is found, the record will be skipped.

Similarly, for records of type AAAA, the IPv6 address retrieved from https://www.ipify.org/ will be used. If no IPv6 address is available, the record will be skipped.

Multiple domains

If you are owner of multiple domains you can add them to the same YAML config file.

your-first-domain.com:
    api_key: <YOUR_API_KEY>
    api_secret: <YOUR_API_SECRET>
    records:
        - type: "A"
        name: "@"
        ttl: 1800

your-second-domain.com:
    api_key: <YOUR_API_KEY>
    api_secret: <YOUR_API_SECRET>
    records:
        - type: "A"
        name: "@"
        ttl: 1800