hetzner

Hetzner CLI

Usage

Global Installation

$ npm install hetzner -g

On top level, the CLI needs the --api-key argument.

$ hetzner --api-key XXX ...

Example with zones

$ hetzner --api-key XXX zones get bluepic.de

Zones

Get zones

# Get all zones
$ zones get

# Get all zones that are matching the phrase 'blue'
$ zones get blue

# Get all zones that are matching exactly bluepic.de
$ zones get bluepic.de

Update zone

Argument	Type	Description	Required
--ttl	Number	Current zone TTL	No

# Updates TTL of zone bluepic.de to 300
$ zones update bluepic.de --ttl 300

Create Zone

Argument	Type	Description	Required
--ttl	Number	New zone's TTL	No

# Creates new zone example.com with TTL 3600
$ zones create example.com --ttl 3600

Delete Zone

# Deletes zone example.com
$ zones delete example.com

Export Zone

# Export zone bluepic.de
$ zones export bluepic.de

Records

Argument	Type	Description	Required
--zone	String	Current zone query	No

Addressing records

Internally, Hetzner's records are related to unqiue ids as zones described above. When using this CLI, you can either address them by their unique id but also by the following search query www:AAAA. In combination with the --zone argument, this makes using this CLI much more easy because you do not have to write down a record's id before addressing it. For security reasons, this will not work if you call update and there are more than one matching records. Normally, this only happens if you're using the query syntax as :AAAA (which points to all type AAAA records in the --zone) or as www: (which points to all www records in the --zone). If you're specifying type and type, two matching records would mean that your DNS records are ambiguous.

Find records

Argument	Type	Description	Required
--detail	Boolean	Show id of records	No

# Find all www records
$ records --zone bluepic.de get www:

# Find all records of type AAAA
$ records --zone bluepic.de get :AAAA

# Find all www records of type AAAA (Should only return one)
$ records --zone bluepic.de get www:AAAA

# Find all records of any type
$ records --zone bluepic.de get

# This works even great to find all records of any type
$ records --zone bluepic.de get :

# Find all records of any type with their id
$ records --zone bluepic.de get --detail

Update record

Argument	Type	Description	Required
--name	String	Record's updated name	No
--type	String	Record's updated type	No
--value	String	Record's updated value	No

By query

# Updates A type record's IPv4 address
$ records --zone bluepic.de update www:a --value 127.0.0.1

# Updates A type record's name from 'www' to 'sub'
$ records --zone bluepic.de update www:a --name sub
# This is will make pointing sub.bluepic.de to the IPv4, www.bluepic.de pointed before

# Tries to a A type record to type AAAA without updating the value to a valid IPv6 address
$ records --zone bluepic.de update www:a --type AAAA # this will fail

By id

If you know your record's unique id, you can also pass it instead of the query xxx:xxx

# Updates the IPv4 value of a record withe id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
# As you can see you do not have to give the zone as an argument, which is more performant
$ records update XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --value 127.0.0.1

Create record

By query

# Creates a A type 'www' record in zone bluepic.de
$ records --zone bluepic.de create www:A 172.0.0.1

Delete record

By query

# Deletes the A type 'www' record
$ records --zone bluepic.de delete www:a

By id

# Deletes the specific record with the id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
$ records delete XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX