Migrate domain from godaddy to aws route53 via boto (mostly)

route53_migrate.py

import boto
from boto.route53.record import ResourceRecordSets
from collections import defaultdict


zone_name = 'yourdomain.com.'
zone_id = "ZONEID-HERE"

conn = boto.connect_route53()
zone = conn.get_hosted_zone(zone_id)
supported = ['A', 'CNAME', 'MX', 'TXT', 'AAAA']

# rrsets = conn.get_all_rrsets(zone_id)


def parse_bfile(fname):
    f = open(fname, 'r')
    result = defaultdict(list)
    res_key = ''

    for line in f:
        if line == '\n' or 'SOA' in line:
            continue
        if line.startswith(';'):
            res_key = line.replace('; ', '').replace(' Records', '').strip()
          # print res_key
            continue
        if res_key in supported:
            result[res_key].append(line.strip())
    return result


def add_change(rec_type, name, vals, ttl=60):
    print("Adding record %s, %s" % (name, vals))
    if name == '@':
        name = ''

    try:
        changes = ResourceRecordSets(conn, zone_id)
        if name:
            qual_name = '%s.%s' % (name, zone_name)
        else:
            qual_name = zone_name
        change = changes.add_change("CREATE", qual_name,
                                        rec_type, ttl)
        for val in vals:
            if val == '@':
                val = zone_name[:-1]
            print val
            change.add_value(val)

        changes.commit()
    except Exception, e:
        print("---- Record Add Failure ----")
        print(e)
        print("---- Record Add Failure ----")


def main():
    """docstring for main"""
    results = parse_bfile("./YOURDOMAIN.com.zone")
    # tmp
    ignore = set(['MX', 'TXT'])

    for rec_type in (r for r in results if r not in ignore):
        print("Processing %s records" % rec_type)
        for record in results[rec_type]:
            r = record.split('\t')
            add_change(rec_type, r[0], [r[-1]], ttl=int(r[1]))

    if 'MX' in results:
        vals = [r.split('\t')[-2] + ' ' + r.split('\t')[-1] for r in results['MX']]
        add_change(rec_type, r[0], [vals], ttl=3600)

    if 'TXT' in results:
        vals = [r.split('\t')[-1] for r in results['TXT']]
        print "Adding: ", record
        add_change(rec_type, r[0], vals, ttl=3600)


    # changes = ResourceRecordSets(conn, zone_id)
    # change = changes.add_change("CREATE", 'foo1.%s' % zone_name, "A", 60)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

this is a insanely hacky quick script i needed to knock together once - route53 documentation was very sparse when i wrote this, and incase that hasnt changed - i hope this may be of some use..