By itzforuhere
Hello,
I am trying to write a shell script to take snapshot of a droplet. Is there any option to get droplet name from droplet ID using curl?
Thanks in advance.
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You should check out the full API documentation as well as this tutorial. They should point you in the right direction.
The /v2/droplets endpoint will return a list of of droplet objects with information about each one. The droplet’s id is included in this information. An abridged droplet object might look like:
{
"id": 14,
"name": "test.example.com",
"memory": 512,
"vcpus": 1,
"disk": 20,
"region": {
....
If you’re doing this with a shell script, I’d suggest looking into jq to parse the json objects. For instance, if you know the name of a droplet you can find its id with:
curl -X GET "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
| jq '.droplets[] | select(.name=="test.example.com") | .id'
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