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Shell script for automatic snapshot - API

Posted on August 11, 2014

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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Andrew SB

August 11, 2014

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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