Can You Use the API to Create WordPress or Rails Droplets

There’s no difference between creating a droplet from say a Debian image or a Wordpress image. It’s the same API call.

You can definitely launch One-Click applications via the API. Each public image has a “slug” that you can use to launch an image. You can also filter the list of images to only show application images:

curl -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/images?type=application" 

That will provide you with a list of images like:

  {
    "min_disk_size": 20,
    "created_at": "2014-09-28T21:34:48Z",
    "regions": [
      "nyc1",
      "ams1",
      "sfo1",
      "nyc2",
      "ams2",
      "sgp1",
      "lon1",
      "nyc3",
      "ams3",
      "nyc1"
    ],
    "public": true,
    "slug": "wordpress",
    "distribution": "Ubuntu",
    "name": "WordPress on 14.04",
    "id": 6423475
  },

Here you see that the image’s slug is “wordpress” To launch a WordPress droplet, you can run:

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
    '{"name":"blog.example.com","region":"nyc3","size":"2gb","image":"wordpress"}' \
    "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"