Script to use DNSimple's API

dnsimple.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import argparse
import simplejson as json
import urllib2, urllib
import httplib 
import base64

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Updates DNSimple with EC2\'s hostname')
parser.add_argument('cname', type=str, nargs=1, help='Name of the CNAME')
parser.add_argument('--domain', default='rhinoaccounting.com', help='Domain to update')
parser.add_argument('--value', default='thor.rhinoaccounting.com', help='CNAME reference')
parser.add_argument('--user', required=True, help='DNSimple username')
parser.add_argument('--token', required=True, help='DNSimple user token')
args = parser.parse_args()

request = urllib2.Request('https://dnsimple.com/domains/{domain}/records'.format(domain=args.domain), data=urllib.urlencode({
    'record': {
        'name': args.cname[0], 
        'record_type': 'CNAME',
        'content': args.value, 
        'ttl': 3600,
    }
}))

request.headers['Accept'] = 'application/json'
#request.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.headers['X-DNSimple-Token'] = '{user}:{token}'.format(user=args.user, token=args.token)

request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
print request.get_method(), request.get_full_url()
print request.headers
print request.get_data()

try:
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    print response.read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, err:
    print err.code, err.read()
    print err.info()