Accompanying code for "Setting DNS Records" Namebase blog post

"Records" array

{ ttl: 10800, type: ‘NS’, host: ‘ns1’, value: ‘44.231.6.183’ }

Authenticate API

 const credentials = Buffer.from(`${ACCESS_KEY}:${SECRET_KEY}`);
 const encodedCredentials = credentials.toString('base64');
 const authorization = `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`;

Delete all TXT records

node namebaseApi.js put nameserver example ‘{ “records”: [], “deleteRecords”: [{ “type”: “TXT”, “host”: “foo” }] }’

HTTP requests to command line

 const fetch = require('node-fetch');

 const ACCESS_KEY = '';
 const SECRET_KEY = '';

 const credentials = Buffer.from(`${ACCESS_KEY}:${SECRET_KEY}`);
 const encodedCredentials = credentials.toString('base64');
 const authorization = `Basic ${encodedCredentials}`;

 async function get(endpoint, body = null) {
   const options = {
     method: 'GET',
     headers: {
       Authorization: authorization,
       Accept: 'application/json',
       'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     },
   };
   const url = `https://namebase.io${endpoint}`;
   return fetch(url, options)
     .then(res => res.json())
     .catch(err => err);
 }

 async function put(endpoint, body) {
   const options = {
     method: 'PUT',
      body: body,
     headers: {
       Authorization: authorization,
       Accept: 'application/json',
       'Content-Type': 'application/json',
     },
   };
   const url = `https://namebase.io${endpoint}`;
   return fetch(url, options)
     .then(res => res.json())
     .catch(err => err);
 }

 async function main() {
   const args = process.argv.slice(2);

   let func, path, data;

   const domain = args[2];

   if (args[0] === 'get') {
     func = get;
   } else if (args[0] === 'put') {
     func = put;

     if (args.length < 4) throw new Error('Put requires 4 arguments');

     data = args[3];
   } else {
     throw new Error("Method should be either 'get' or 'put'");
   }

   if (args[1] === 'blockchain') {
     path = `/api/v0/dns/domains/${domain}`;
   } else if (args[1] === 'blockchain-advanced') {
     path = `/api/v0/dns/domains/${domain}/advanced`;
   } else if (args[1] === 'nameserver') {
     path = `/api/v0/dns/domains/${domain}/nameserver`;
   } else {
     throw new Error("Service should be 'blockchain', 'blockchain-advanced' or 'nameserver'");
   }

   return func(path, data);
 }

 main().then(res => {
   console.log(res);
 });

Retrieve your name's Handshake records

node ./namebaseApi.js get blockchain YOUR_DOMAIN

Run to set record

node ./namebaseApi.js put blockchain YOUR_DOMAIN ‘{“records”: [{ “ttl”: 10800, “type”: “NS”, “host”: “ns1”, “value”: “44.231.6.183” }] }’

Set up Skynet portal

node namebaseApi.js put blockchain YOUR_DOMAIN ‘{ “records”: [{ “type”: “TXT”, “host”: “”, “value”: “[YOUR_SKYLINK]”, “ttl”: 0 }] }’

Update blockchain Skylink

node namebaseApi.js put blockchain example ‘{ “records”: [{ “type”: “TXT”, “host”: “”, “value”: “[YOUR_SKYLINK]”, “ttl”: 0 }] }’

Using the Script

node ./namebaseApi.js METHOD SERVICE DOMAIN RECORD_DATA