# Snapshots Reference

Snapshots are on-demand disk images of DigitalOcean Droplets and volumes saved to your account. Use them to create new Droplets and volumes with the same contents.

The [DigitalOcean API](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/index.html.md) lets you manage resources programmatically with standard HTTP requests. All actions available in the control panel are also available through the API.

[`doctl`](https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl) is the command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API. It supports most of the same actions available in the API and DigitalOcean Control Panel.

[DigitalOcean Snapshots API Reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/digitalocean/index.html.md#tag/Snapshots): Use the DigitalOcean API to create, list, and manage snapshots.

[doctl reference compute droplet snapshots](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/droplet/snapshots/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of snapshots created from this Droplet.