The scripts in this directory demonstrate how to use the DNSimple Python API wrapper to connect to the DNSimple API.
First you will need to ensure you have python 3 installed.
Once you are sure python 3 is installed it's time to install the Python API client
pip xxx
You can also install the Python API client by cloning it from github
git clone git@github.com:dnsimple/dnsimple-python.git
and installing it locally to your system
pip install -r <path-to-your-local-clone>/requirements.txt
pip install <path-to-your-local-clone>
Now create a file called token.txt and put your token in it:
your_token
The token is an account token you generated on the DNSimple site from an account screen. Most of the example scripts will expect this type of token. There is another token, a user token, which is generated on the DNSimple site in your account management screen. The user token will be accepted, but since it is scoped to a user, which may access multiple accounts, no account information is populated from the whoami endpoint when a user token is supplied, therefore either the account id must be known in advance, or an extra step must be taken to get the account id.
Unless otherwise noted, all scripts expect an account token.
Now you can run individual scripts either by running the script directly or by prefixing the script name with python.
For example ./account_list.py and python3 account_list.py should both work.