Checking Rackspace DNS API Rate Limits

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so, you want to check your Rackspace DNS API rate Limits?

Here is how you do it.


#!/bin/bash

# Username used to login to control panel
USERNAME='mycloudusernamegoeshere'

# Find the APIKey in the 'account settings' part of the menu of the control panel
APIKEY='mycloudapikeygoeshere'

# Customer ID of the account (the numbers that are in the URL when you login to mycloud control panel)
CUSTOMER_ID="100101010"

# This section simply retrieves the TOKEN
TOKEN=`curl https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens -X POST -d '{ "auth":{"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials": { "username":"'$USERNAME'", "apiKey": "'$APIKEY'" }} }' -H "Content-type: application/json" |  python -mjson.tool | grep -A5 token | grep id | cut -d '"' -f4`

# Retrieve Rate Limit detail for the account
curl "https://dns.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/$CUSTOMER_ID/limits" -H "X-Auth-Token: $token" | python -m json.tool

Cheers &
Best wishes,
Adam