Catalog API

Introduction

In order to obtain descriptions and prices for all the products Gandi offers an API has been made available.

Connect to the API server

The Gandi Catalog API is provided through a set of XML-RPC calls. The first step is to connect to the API.

>>> import xmlrpc.client
>>> api = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy('https://rpc.gandi.net/xmlrpc/')
>>>
>>> apikey = 'my 24-character API key'
>>>
>>> # Now you can call API methods.
>>> # You must authenticate yourself by passing
>>> # the API key as the first method's argument
>>> version = api.version.info(apikey)

Note

In Python, use the xmlrpcclient module from the standard library.

<?php
// Library installed from PEAR
require_once 'XML/RPC2/Client.php';

// The first step is to connect to the API
$version_api = XML_RPC2_Client::create(
    'https://rpc.gandi.net/xmlrpc/',
    array( 'prefix' => 'version.', 'sslverify' => True )
);

// Warning !
// PEAR::XML_RPC2 checks the SSL certificate with Curl
// Curl has its own CA bundle so you may :
// * disable the 'sslverify' option: leads to security issue
// * enable the 'sslverify' option (default) and add the Gandi
// SSL certificate to the Curl bundle: best choice for security
// See: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

$apikey = 'my 24-character API key';

// Now you can call API method
// You must authenticate yourself by passing the API key
// as the first method's argument
$result = $version_api->info($apikey);

// Warning !
// PEAR::XML_RPC2 has known bugs on methods calls
// See https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=13963
// You may use this call instead of the above one :
// $result = $version_api->__call("info", $apikey);

// dump the result
print_r($result);
?>

Note

In PHP 5, use the XML_RPC2 package from pear.

XML_RPC2 works with ‘prefix’ in order to bind to namespace. The ‘prefix’ isn’t editable, so you have to instanciante a client by namespace.

> var xmlrpc = require('xmlrpc')
> var api = xmlrpc.createSecureClient({
...  host: 'rpc.gandi.net',
...  port: 443,
...  path: '/xmlrpc/'
... })
>
> var apikey = 'my 24-character API key'
>
> // Now you can call API methods.
> // You must authenticate yourself by passing the API key
> // as the first method's argument
> api.methodCall('version.info', [apikey], function (error, value) {
...  console.dir(value)
... })

Note

With NodeJS, use the npm xmlrpc package.

use XML::RPC;

my $api = XML::RPC->new('https://rpc.gandi.net/xmlrpc/');

my $apikey = 'my 24-character API key';

# Now you can call API methods.
# You must authenticate yourself by passing the API key
# as the first method's argument
my $version = $api->call( 'version.info', $apikey );

Note

With perl, use the cpan xml::rpc package.

require 'xmlrpc/client'

server = XMLRPC::Client.new2('https://rpc.gandi.net/xmlrpc/')

apikey = 'my 24-character API key'

# Now you can call API methods.
# You must authenticate yourself by passing the API key
# as the first method's argument
version = server.call("version.info", apikey)

Note

With ruby, use the xmlrpc/client module from the standard library. Ruby does not support gzip by default, the ZlibParserDecorator is used to enabled with Ruby >1.9.

For older ruby version, neither set the http_header_extra nor the parser.

Note

To avoid RuntimeError with ruby >= 1.9, add:

XMLRPC::Config.module_eval {
    remove_const(:ENABLE_NIL_PARSER)
    const_set(:ENABLE_NIL_PARSER, true)
}

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include <xmlrpc.h>
#include <xmlrpc_client.h>

#define CLIENT_NAME             "Documentation Client"
#define CLIENT_VERSION          "0.1"
#define CLIENT_USERAGENT        CLIENT_NAME "/" CLIENT_VERSION

#define SERVER_URL              "https://rpc.gandi.net/xmlrpc/"

int     client_connect(xmlrpc_env *);
void    client_check_fault(xmlrpc_env *);

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        xmlrpc_env      env;
        xmlrpc_value    *apikey, *rv;

        client_connect(&env);

        apikey = xmlrpc_build_value(&env, "(s)", "my 24-character API key");
        rv = xmlrpc_client_call_params(&env, SERVER_URL, "version.info", apikey);
        client_check_fault(&env);

        xmlrpc_DECREF(rv);
        xmlrpc_DECREF(apikey);

        xmlrpc_env_clean(&env);
        xmlrpc_client_cleanup();

        return (0);
}

int
client_connect(xmlrpc_env *env)
{
        struct xmlrpc_clientparms clientp;
        struct xmlrpc_curl_xportparms curlp;

        curlp.network_interface = NULL;         /* use curl's default */
        curlp.ssl_verifypeer = 1;               /* Gandi API CA must be present */
        curlp.ssl_verifyhost = 2;
        curlp.user_agent = CLIENT_USERAGENT;    /* XML-RPC requirement */

        clientp.transport = "curl";
        clientp.transportparmsP = &curlp;
        clientp.transportparm_size = XMLRPC_CXPSIZE(user_agent);

        xmlrpc_env_init(env);
        xmlrpc_client_init2(env, XMLRPC_CLIENT_NO_FLAGS, CLIENT_NAME,
            CLIENT_VERSION, &clientp, XMLRPC_CPSIZE(transportparm_size));
        client_check_fault(env);

        return (1);
}

void
client_check_fault(xmlrpc_env *env)
{
        if (env->fault_occurred) {
                fprintf(stderr, "XML-RPC Fault: %s (%d)\n", env->fault_string,
                    env->fault_code);
                exit(1);
        }
}

Note

With C, use the xmlrpc-c library.

Catalog Requests

The Gandi Catalog API allows you to price the following product types:

  • domain
  • hosting
  • paas
  • site
  • certificate
  • gandimail

Example:

>>> api.catalog.list(apikey, {'product':{'type': 'domains'}})

You can also use the Gandi product descriptions to make your search more accurate.

A Gandi product is a product/action pair.

A product has a mandatory type and optional description and quantity attributes.

An action has a mandatory name and an optional duration attribute.

Therefore, a registration of the domain name example.com for 2 years would be described as:

>>> product_spec = {
  'product' : {
    'description': 'example.com',
    'type':'domains'
  },
  'action': {
    'name':'create',
    'duration': 2
  }
}

and its price would be:

>>> api.catalog.list(apikey, product_spec)
[{'action': {'name': 'create'},
'product': {'description': '.com', 'type': 'domains'},
'unit_price': [{'currency': 'EUR',
              'duration_unit': 'y',
              'grid': 'A',
              'id': 9980,
              'max_duration': 2,
              'min_duration': 1,
              'price': 12.0,
              'special_op': False}]}]

catalog.list() method returns a list of price descriptions according to your currency, grid and the duration of the action (when pricing, the first entry applies).

You may consult more examples in the Catalog API FAQ.