[cPanel UAPI] How to get the serial of a DNS zone

Anindya Sundar Mandal

• July 18, 2022 22:53

Hello, I want to set DNS TXT records with cPanel UAPI from a PHP application. Authentication is done with API Tokens. So I was reading this documentation:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 19, 2022 18:47

  Hey there! I reached out to the team and there is not an API call available that will provide the serial number. Most people use a grep/awk combination to pull that information manually. If you'd like to see us add this, could you use the link in my signature to submit a feature request and I'll make sure the development team approves that?

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  Anindya Sundar Mandal

  • July 20, 2022 03:41

  I have submitted the feature request:

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 20, 2022 14:34

  Thanks for submitting that. It's up to the team to decide if they want to add it, but I'll be sure to bring it up during next weeks' features meeting.

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  santrix

  • August 15, 2022 08:53

  Maybe I'm missing something here, but you can just use whmapi1 dumpzone, then look through the .data -> zone[0] -> record objects for type == 'SOA', then you will find serial in there as a key/value. Or rip it out directly e.g. perl perl -0777 -ne 'if ($_ =~ m/^([^;][^\n]+\bSOA\b.*?)(\b[0-9]+)/ms){ if ($2 =~ m/([0-9]+)/){print "$ARGV:$1\n"}}' /var/named/domain.db
  

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  RadWebHosting

  • August 24, 2022 14:10

  Maybe I'm missing something here, but you can just use whmapi1 dumpzone, then look through the .data -> zone[0] -> record objects for type == 'SOA', then you will find serial in there as a key/value. Or rip it out directly e.g. perl perl -0777 -ne 'if ($_ =~ m/^([^;][^\n]+\bSOA\b.*?)(\b[0-9]+)/ms){ if ($2 =~ m/([0-9]+)/){print "$ARGV:$1\n"}}' /var/named/domain.db
  

  
  Yeah, I am unclear as to what benefit the UAPI would give since your method could easily be iterated/scaled. Maybe OP can enlighten us.

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  gonzadiaz

  • May 17, 2023 14:29

  Hi, i had that problem that i needed the serial number to use the update zone API. After some investigation i got here and tried the perl script solution. But after sometime experimenting i have found a better way. Using the "parse_zone" api i get all dns records. Filtering the SOA registry i found in the data field the serial number. The SOA registry has 6 strings inside data_b64 array, the third value in the array is the serial number.

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