Zone Record API

Zone Record Regions
List records for a zone
Create a zone record
Get a zone record
Update a zone record
Delete a zone record

Zone Record Regions

This Zone Record Regions is a feature that is only available to the following new plans: Professional and Business.

Zone Record Regions lets you select geographical regions where you want a record to appear.

We currently have 6 points of presence:

Code	Region
`SV1`	California, US
`ORD`	Illinois, US
`IAD`	Virginia, US
`AMS`	Amsterdam, NL
`TKO`	Tokyo, JP
`SYD`	Sydney, AU

When creating/updating a record, you can optionally select one or more regions. If you don’t select any, the record will appear in all of them (global).

List records for a zone

GET /:account/zones/:zone/records

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`:account`	`integer`	The account id
`:zone`	`string`	The zone name

Example

List records for the zone example.com in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records

Response

Responds with HTTP 200.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "zone_id": "example.com",
      "parent_id": null,
      "name": "",
      "content": "ns1.dnsimple.com admin.dnsimple.com 1458642070 86400 7200 604800 300",
      "ttl": 3600,
      "priority": null,
      "type": "SOA",
      "regions": [
        "global"
      ],
      "system_record": true,
      "created_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z",
      "updated_at": "2016-10-05T09:26:38Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 69061,
      "zone_id": "example.com",
      "parent_id": null,
      "name": "",
      "content": "ns1.dnsimple.com",
      "ttl": 3600,
      "priority": null,
      "type": "NS",
      "regions": [
        "global"
      ],
      "system_record": true,
      "created_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z",
      "updated_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "zone_id": "example.com",
      "parent_id": null,
      "name": "",
      "content": "ns2.dnsimple.com",
      "ttl": 3600,
      "priority": null,
      "type": "NS",
      "regions": [
        "global"
      ],
      "system_record": true,
      "created_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z",
      "updated_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "zone_id": "example.com",
      "parent_id": null,
      "name": "",
      "content": "ns3.dnsimple.com",
      "ttl": 3600,
      "priority": null,
      "type": "NS",
      "regions": [
        "global"
      ],
      "system_record": true,
      "created_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z",
      "updated_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z"
    },
    {
      "id": 4,
      "zone_id": "example.com",
      "parent_id": null,
      "name": "",
      "content": "ns4.dnsimple.com",
      "ttl": 3600,
      "priority": null,
      "type": "NS",
      "regions": [
        "global"
      ],
      "system_record": true,
      "created_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z",
      "updated_at": "2016-03-22T10:20:53Z"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "current_page": 1,
    "per_page": 30,
    "total_entries": 5,
    "total_pages": 1
  }
}

Filters

Name	Description
`:name_like`	Only include records containing given string
`:name`	Only include records with name equal to given string
`:type`	Only include records with record type equal to given string

Example

List records for the zone example.com with TXT zone records, in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records?type=TXT

Sorting

For general information about sorting, please refer to the main guide.

Name	Description
`id`	Sort records by ID
`name`	Sort records by name (alphabetical order)
`content`	Sort records by content
`type`	Sort records by type

The default sorting policy is by ascending id.

Create a zone record

POST /:account/zones/:zone/records

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`:account`	`integer`	The account id
`:zone`	`string`	The zone name

Example

Create a record for the zone example.com in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
      -X POST \
      -d '<json>' \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records

Input

Name	Type	Description
`name`	`string`	Required. Use an empty string to create a record for the apex.
`type`	`string`	Required.
`content`	`string`	Required.
`ttl`	`integer`
`priority`	`integer`
`regions`	`array`	Optional set of regions

Example

{
  "name": "",
  "type": "MX",
  "content": "mxa.example.com",
  "ttl": 600,
  "priority": 10,
  "regions": ["SV1", "IAD"]
}

Response

Responds with HTTP 201 on success.

{
  "data": {
    "id": 1,
    "zone_id": "example.com",
    "parent_id": null,
    "name": "www",
    "content": "127.0.0.1",
    "ttl": 600,
    "priority": null,
    "type": "A",
    "system_record": false,
    "regions": [
      "global"
    ],
    "created_at": "2016-01-07T17:45:13Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-01-07T17:45:13Z"
  }
}

Responds with HTTP 400 if bad request.

Responds with HTTP 400 if the validation fails.

Get a zone record

GET /:account/zones/:zone/records/:record

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`:account`	`integer`	The account id
`:zone`	`string`	The zone name
`:record`	`integer`	The record id

Example

Get the record 5 for the zone example.com, in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records/5

Response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 5,
    "zone_id": "example.com",
    "parent_id": null,
    "name": "",
    "content": "mxa.example.com",
    "ttl": 600,
    "priority": 10,
    "type": "MX",
    "regions": [
      "SV1",
      "IAD"
    ],
    "system_record": false,
    "created_at": "2016-10-05T09:51:35Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-10-05T09:51:35Z"
  }
}

Update a zone record

PATCH /:account/zones/:zone/records/:record

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`:account`	`integer`	The account id
`:zone`	`string`	The zone name
`:record`	`integer`	The record id

Example

Update the record with ID 5 for zone example.com, in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
      -X PATCH \
      -d '<json>' \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records/5

Input

The following fields are updateable. You can pass zero of any of them.

Name	Type	Description
`name`	`string`
`content`	`string`
`ttl`	`integer`
`priority`	`integer`
`regions`	`array`	Optional set of regions

Example

{
  "content": "mxb.example.com",
  "ttl": 3600,
  "priority": 20
  "regions": ["global"]
}

Response

Responds with HTTP 200 on success.

{
  "data": {
    "id": 5,
    "zone_id": "example.com",
    "parent_id": null,
    "name": "",
    "content": "mxb.example.com",
    "ttl": 3600,
    "priority": 20,
    "type": "MX",
    "regions": [
      "global"
    ],
    "system_record": false,
    "created_at": "2016-10-05T09:51:35Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-10-05T09:51:35Z"
  }
}

Responds with HTTP 400 if bad request.

Responds with HTTP 400 if the validation fails.

Delete a zone record

DELETE /:account/zones/:zone/records/:record

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`:account`	`integer`	The account id
`:zone`	`string`	The zone name
`:record`	`integer`	The record id

Example

Delete the record with ID 5 for zone example.com, in the account 1010:

curl  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      -H 'Accept: application/json' \
      -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
      -X DELETE \
      https://api.dnsimple.com/v2/1010/zones/example.com/records/5

Response

Responds with HTTP 204 on success.