Method Not allowed updating DNS Record using API - again?

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#1

Howdy All - First time Cloudflare user…

I’ve seen lots of recentish posts on this issue, but can’t get around it.

In short, getting “Cloudflare.exceptions.CloudFlareAPIError: method_not_allowed” using the API to update a DNS record.

– The simplified code:

import Cloudflare

ZONE=“mydom”

cf = Cloudflare.Cloudflare(email=‘myemail’, token=GLOBAL_API_KEY)

zones = cf.zones.get(params = {‘name’:ZONE,‘per_page’:1})
zone = zones[0]
zone_id = zone[‘id’]

dns_record = {‘name’:‘BLAH’, ‘type’:‘A’, ‘ttl’: 120, ‘content’: ‘192.168.1.7’}
cf.zones.dns_records.put(zone_id, data=dns_record)

I’ve dabbled w/bearer tokens and the ttl and various hints and hacks on other posts. Yet, no joy yet.

Any ideas?

#2

This is likely an issue with your code or the library itself. The best thing to do is to try the PUT operation via a tool like cURL:

https://api.cloudflare.com/#dns-records-for-a-zone-update-dns-record

curl -X PUT "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353/dns_records/372e67954025e0ba6aaa6d586b9e0b59" \
     -H "X-Auth-Email: [email protected]" \
     -H "X-Auth-Key: c2547eb745079dac9320b638f5e225cf483cc5cfdda41" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{"type":"A","name":"example.com","content":"127.0.0.1","ttl":3600,"proxied":false}'

If it works there, then you can be sure your token details and API parameters are good - you’ll then need to look deeper into your code.

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#3

It sounds like the Python wrapper is not supported here.

#4

The best place to report an issue with the Python wrapper would be on the official issues page for that project - but before you do that - it’s best to debug the way I have described by making sure your API details are working.

If you’ve confirmed your API details are working, then you could report the issue with steps to reproduce on github:

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#5

Yes, I did’nt realize that. Thanks. I have done so.

I raised an issue there on the lack of clarity of error msgs and got a quick answer.

It turns out though, I was completely wrong in my usage of the function - here’s the fix for others stumbling:

The last line of the code should simply be:

cf.zones.dns_records.put(my_zone_id, dns_record_id, data=dns_record)))

Thanks for your help and time

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