Examples for updating AAAA/A and CNAME records would be beneficial

[phieber]

Examples for updating AAAA/A and CNAME records would be beneficial

[NickUfer]

Hey, to update a record you need the id of the record. There are two ways of finding the id of a record: via frontend or via api.

The frontend variant (for simply updating the same record over and over again):

• go to the list of DNS records for your domain
• click on the edit button of the record you want to know the id
• when you hover over the save button you can see in the bottom right or left corner of your browser the javascript function which would be called, which includes the id of the record. You can extract it from there. You could also just right click on the save button and copy the link address to clipboard and extract it then.

The api variant (for more dynamic things):

• call the nameserver.info method (more info on the method here) and filter the returned records for the record you want to update. You could filter here by for example its name and other attributes. The id attribute is the record id in the result.

When you found the record you want to update it is as simple as that:

from INWX.Domrobot import ApiClient, ApiType

username = ''
password = ''
domain = 'yourdomain.com'

api_client = ApiClient(api_url=ApiClient.API_LIVE_URL, api_type=ApiType.JSON_RPC, debug_mode=True)

login_result = api_client.login(username, password)

if login_result['code'] == 1000:

    dns_record_id = 123456789  # our dns record id
    method_params = {
        'id': dns_record_id,
        'content': '1.2.3.4',
    }

    create_record_result = api_client.call_api(api_method='nameserver.updateRecord', method_params=method_params)

    if create_record_result['code'] == 1000:
        print('Record created successfully')
    else:
        raise Exception('Api error while creating the record. Code: ' + str(create_record_result['code'])
                        + '  Message: ' + create_record_result['msg'])
    api_client.logout()
else:
    raise Exception('Api login error. Code: ' + str(login_result['code']) + '  Message: ' + login_result['msg'])

You only need to provide the dns record id and the attributes you want to update. In this example I update only the content (the value) of the record.

Further information about or example what can be updated can be found in our documentation at https://www.inwx.de/en/help/apidoc/f/ch02s13.html#nameserver.updateRecord

I hope I could help 👍🏼

[NickUfer]

Oops there was a small mistake, just corrected it :) I mentioned the wrong api method in the api variant

[TheTesla]

The python examples are outdated here: https://www.inwx.de/en/help/apidoc/f/ch01s05.html#idm144
You can check my projects:
https://github.com/TheTesla/dnsuptools
https://github.com/TheTesla/cryptdomainmgr