Test your namecheap API
My Let’s Encrypt SSL cert was accidentally expired. It’d been updated, but certbot created a new cert instead of updating the existing one. I don’t know why. Anyways. This led me to explore how I might automate this and viola, trwnh has done it!
Before you plug in trwnh’s Python script, however, maybe you just want to check out the API for yourself? Here’s a fish script to do it.
#!/bin/fish
set HOST "api.namecheap.com"
set API_USER "my-user-name"
set USER_NAME "my-user-name"
set API_KEY "my-api-key"
set IP_ADDR "my-ip-address"
set SLD "domain"
set TLD "com"
set TTL "1799"
# gets TXT records
set BASE_REQUEST "https://$HOST/xml.response?ApiUser=$API_USER&ApiKey=$API_KEY&UserName=$USER_NAME&ClientIp=$IP_ADDR"
xh -v "$BASE_REQUEST&Command=namecheap.domains.dns.getHosts&SLD=alexbilson&TLD=dev"