Homemade recipe to update an A DNS record using the Dinahosting API

updateDnsARecorDinahosting.py

import requests
import dns.resolver
import syslog

dinahostingUser = "DINAHOSTING_USERNAME"
dinahostingPass = "DINAHOSTING_PASSWORD"
urlCheckWan = "https://eth0.me"
hostname = "HOSTNAME"
domain = "DOMAIN"

resolver = dns.resolver.Resolver()
resolver.nameservers = ['8.8.8.8']

r = requests.get(urlCheckWan)
ipWan = r.text

consulta = resolver.resolve(hostname + "." + domain, 'A')

for rdata in consulta:
    ip = (rdata.to_text())

if ipWan.strip() != ip:
    urlDinahosting = str("https://dinahosting.com/special/api.php?AUTH_USER=" + dinahostingUser +"&AUTH_PWD=" + dinahostingPass + "&domain=" + domain +"&hostname="+ hostname + "&ip=" + ipWan.strip() +"&oldIp=&command=Domain_Zone_UpdateTypeA")
    updateRecord = requests.post(urlDinahosting)
    syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Se ha actualizado el registro DNS A para el dominio: " + hostname + "." + domain + " con el valor " + ipWan.strip())
elif ipWan.strip() == ip:
    syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Ejecución script update.py para " + hostname + "." + domain)