Transferring DNS records from Slicehost to 6sync via API calls

transfer_slicehost.py

from pyactiveresource.activeresource import ActiveResource
from biscuit.api import APIHandler


ip_translations = {'aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd': 'xxx.yyy.zzz.qqq',
                   'eee.fff.ggg.hhh': 'ppp.qqq.rrr.sss'}

slice_api_key = 'xxxxx_YOUR_SLICEHOST_API_KEY_HERE_xxxxx'
slice_api_url = 'https://%s@api.slicehost.com/' % slice_api_key

biscuit_api_key = 'XXX_YOUR_6SYNC_API_KEY_XXX'
biscuit_api_secret = 'XXX_YOUR_6SYNC_API_SECRET_XXX'
biscuit_api = APIHandler(biscuit_api_key, biscuit_api_secret)


class Zone(ActiveResource):
    _site = slice_api_url

class Record(ActiveResource):
    _site = slice_api_url

slice_domains = Zone.find()
slice_origins = map(lambda x: x.origin, slice_domains)

biscuit_domains = biscuit_api.domain_list()
biscuit_origins = map(lambda x: x['origin'], biscuit_domains)

transfer_domains = filter(lambda x: x not in biscuit_origins, slice_origins)
print 'Found', len(transfer_domains), 'to transfer.'

for domain in transfer_domains:
    print 'Transferring', domain, '\n'
    old_zone = Zone.find(origin=domain)[0]
    new_zone = biscuit_api.domain_create(domain)
    old_records = Record.find(zone_id=old_zone.id)
    for record in old_records:
        if record.record_type != 'NS': # We're changing NS servers; ignore these records.
            if record.data in ip_translations:
                data = ip_translations[record.data]
            else:
                data = record.data
            new_record = biscuit_api.domain_resource_create(new_zone['id'], record.name, record.record_type, data, record.aux)

print 'Done!'