API V2 PHP Domain update says domain record is not included

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Hey there,

I have strange problem here.

I started writing script yesterday for updating a domain name, and it was working fine. But today I am getting error:

string(81) "{"id":"unprocessable_entity","message":"Record type is not included in the list"}" {"type":"A","name":"home","data":"162.10.66.0"}

This is the code:

  $ch = curl_init($request_uri);
  $headers = array(
    'Content-Type:application/json',
    'Authorization: Bearer ' . file_get_contents('token.txt') );
  $rawdata = array(
  'type'      => 'A',
  'name'      => 'sub',
  'data'      => '162.10.66.0',
  'priority'  => null,
  'port'      => null,
  'weight'    => null
);
  $postdata = json_encode($rawdata);

  $ch = curl_init();                    // initiate curl
  $url = "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/mydomain.org/records"; 
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
  $output = curl_exec ($ch); // execute
  curl_close ($ch); // close curl handle
  var_dump($output); // show output
  echo $postdata;//show what I am posting

There is no difference how I format the json POST request - it never detects the type and returns that error.

Any help will appreciated.

Thanks, Ivan

Ivan Denkov · Answer

Hi hozza,

At the end I think I used exec to run shell command through php, but later I gave up on php and I just have shell script which I use to update the DNS, here it is if that is going to help you:

#!/bin/bash
#Description: Update IP address for A record on Digital Ocean API v2.
#Author: Ivan Denkov

TOKEN="47537ab13b726ae38bc90181778678678567jhffjhgfh"
RECORD_ID="0000000"
DOMAIN_NAME="domain.com"

#Retrieve current public IP
NIP=$(curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//')

#Retrieve record IP
CIP=$(curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/"$DOMAIN_NAME"/records/"$RECORD_ID"" | python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print obj["domain_record"]["data"]')
#echo [$(date +"%d-%m-%Y-%T")] "DO WAN IP: " $CIP  >> log.txt


#Compare past WAN IP and with current WAN IP
if [ "$NIP" != "$CIP" ]; then
   curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d '{"data":"'"$NIP"'"}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/"$DOMAIN_NAME"/records/"$RECORD_ID
else
  echo "IP is the same!"
fi
exit 0;

hozza · Answer

I’m having the exact same issue… was there ever a solution to this?

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API V2 PHP Domain update says domain record is not included

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