Programmatic DNS Updater for Digital Ocean

What does it do:

Provide a programmatic way to update records that are managed by Digital Ocean's DNS servers.

Created for:

Updating DNS records when you have a changing ip address.

Inspired From:

This is a rewrite from scratch project which was inspired by bensquire's repository, with simplified and more readable code.

Usage:

• Get an API TOKEN from 'Personal Access Token'.
• Copy .env.example to .env
• Add values to the following variables in the created .env:
  • WHAT_IS_MY_IP_URL
    • A GET request will be done to this url and parse the response using regex for IPv4 address
  • DIGITAL_OCEAN_TOKEN
  • DOMAIN_NAME
  • SUBDOMAIN_NAME
  • RTYPE
  • TTL
  • RUN_EVERY
    • <= 0 run only once
    • > 0 run every X seconds
• Manual run:
  • Run pip install requirements.txt to install the dependencies
  • Run python3 app.py to update the DNS record based on data from .env
• Run using docker: docker-compose up