API - How to list snapshots

Posted on July 24, 2014

Does the API provide a method to list all snapshots with their details?

GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images/<snapshot-id> responds correctly with snapshot details of the specified snapshot-id.

But how to get a list of snapshots?

GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images/ responds with a list of all images but it does not seem to include snapshots.

Is there a way to list all snapshots with their details?

Since snapshot ids are listed in a droplet’s info, one solution to the question would be to first GET all droplets, extract all snapshot ids and then make multiple GET requests for each snapshot’s details.

Just checking if there’s a direct way to list all snapshots with their details.

Thanks.

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gabriel403

July 24, 2014

https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images/ does appear to list snapshots for me, backups, images and snapshots are all being listed.

Kamal Nasser

July 24, 2014

The /images call does list all snapshots. Make sure you’ve covered all the pages as the response is paginated. For example, here’s the response I got:

{
    "images": [
        "..."
    ], 
    "links": {
        "pages": {
            "last": "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?page=2", 
            "next": "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?page=2"
        }
    }, 
    "meta": {
        "total": 39
    }
}