Digital Ocean Domain Records API
Domain record resources are used to set or retrieve information about theindividual DNS records configured for a domain. This allows you to buildand manage DNS zone files by adding and modifying individual records for adomain.The [DigitalOcean DNS management interface](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/)allows you to configure the following DNS records:Name | Description |------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|A | This record type is used to map an IPv4 address to a hostname. |AAAA | This record type is used to map an IPv6 address to a hostname. |CAA | As specified in RFC-6844, this record type can be used to restrict which certificate authorities are permitted to issue certificates for a domain. |CNAME | This record type defines an alias for your canonical hostname (the one defined by an A or AAAA record). |MX | This record type is used to define the mail exchanges used for the domain. |NS | This record type defines the name servers that are used for this zone. |TXT | This record type is used to associate a string of text with a hostname, primarily used for verification. |SRV | This record type specifies the location (hostname and port number) of servers for specific services. |SOA | This record type defines administrative information about the zone. Can only have ttl changed, cannot be deleted |
Digital Ocean Domain Records API is one of 37 APIs that Digital Ocean publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Domain Records. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 6 operations across 2 paths, and defines 21 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.digitalocean.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Digital Ocean Domain Records API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer_auth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearer_auth— OAuth Authentication In order to interact with the DigitalOcean API, you or your application must authenticate. The DigitalOcean API handles this through OAuth…
Paths & Operations 6
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Domain record resources are used to set or retrieve information about the individual DNS records configured for a domain. This allows you to build and manage DNS zone files by add…
Schemas 21
The contract defines 21 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are domain_record (10 properties), error (3 properties), meta (1 property), meta_properties (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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