GoDaddy DNS Update Using API

I recently need to update my DNS entry which is hosted in GoDaddy. GoDaddy supports API call to update DNS entries, which is amazing!!

You need to generate the API key and secret.

create the file below and cronjob it!

#!/bin/bash

domain="domain.tld"
type="A"
name="@"
ttl="3600"
port="1"
weight="1"
key="my-api-key"
secret="my-api-secret"

headers="Authorization: sso-key $key:$secret"
echo "Headers = " $headers

result=$(curl -X GET -H "$headers" "https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/$domain/records/$type/$name")
echo "Result = " $result

dnsIP=$(echo $result | grep -oE "\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b")
echo "DNS IP = " $dnsIP

ret=$(curl -s GET "http://ipinfo.io/json")
currentIP=$(echo $ret | grep -oE "\b([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}\b")
echo "Current IP = " $currentIP

if [ $dnsIP != $currentIP ];
then
        echo "IP's are not equal, updating record"
        curl -X PUT "https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/$domain/records/$type/$name" \
                -H "accept: application/json" \
                -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
                -H "$headers" \
                -d "[ { \"data\": \"$currentIP\", \"port\": $port, \"priority\": 0, \"protocol\": \"string\", \"service\": \"string\", \"ttl\": $ttl, \"weight\": $weight } ]"
fi

if [ $dnsIP = $currentIP ];
then
        echo "IP's are equal, no update required"
fi