Bulk Password Reset for WHM/cPanel in Python

bulk_cpanel_whm_password_resets.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from urllib import urlencode
import httplib2, base64, json

filewithdomains = '/path/to/domains.txt'
resellerlogin = 'root'
resellerpass = 'password'
whmip = '123.456.789.000'

h = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)
auth = base64.encodestring(resellerlogin + ':' + resellerpass).decode('utf-8')

for line in open(filewithdomains):
	domain = line.rstrip() #removing line feed
	user = ''.join(e for e in domain[:domain.rfind('.')] if e.isalnum()).lstrip('0123456789')[:8] #removing first level domain, special characters and numbers from start of line, cutting by 8 chars
	params = {'username': user, 'domain': domain}
	resp, content = h.request('https://'+whmip+':2087/json-api/passwd?' + urlencode(params), 'GET',
		headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic ' + auth})

	answer = json.loads(content.decode('utf-8'))
	if 'status' in answer:
		result = answer #there is no result in answer (permission denied for example)
	else:
		result = answer['result'][0]
	if result['status']:
		passpos = result['rawout'].find('PassWord:') #getting password from whm output
		password = result['rawout'][passpos+10:passpos+24]
	else:
		password = '' #in case of error ther is no password

	print user+'\t', domain+'\t', password+'\t', result['statusmsg']