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actions_info

Generated on 11 Feb 2026 from digitalocean.cloud version v1.2.1

Synopsis

List all actions that have been executed on your account. Actions are records of events that have occurred on resources in your account. These can be things like rebooting a Droplet or transferring an image to a new region. View the API documentation at https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#tag/Actions.

Requirements

pydo >= 0.1.3
azure-core >= 1.26.1

Parameters

Parameter	Choices / Default	Description
`client_override_options` dict		Client override options (developer use). For example, can be used to override the DigitalOcean API endpoint for an internal test suite. If provided, these options will knock out existing options.
`limit` int		Maximum number of actions to retrieve. If not specified, retrieves all actions (may be slow for accounts with many actions).
`module_override_options` dict		Module override options (developer use). Can be used to override module options to support experimental or future options. If provided, these options will knock out existing options.
`resource_type` str	Choices: `droplet` `image` `volume` `floating_ip` `reserved_ip`	Used to filter actions by a specific resource type.
`state` str	Choices: `present` (default) `absent`	State of the resource, `present` to create, `absent` to destroy.
`timeout` int	Default: `300`	Polling timeout in seconds.
`token` str		DigitalOcean API token. There are several environment variables which can be used to provide this value. `DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN`, `DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN`, `DO_API_TOKEN`, `DO_API_KEY`, `DO_OAUTH_TOKEN` and `OAUTH_TOKEN`

Examples

- name: Get the 100 most recent actions
  digitalocean.cloud.actions_info:
    token: "{{ token }}"
    limit: 100

- name: Get all Droplet actions
  digitalocean.cloud.actions_info:
    token: "{{ token }}"
    resource_type: droplet

- name: Get the 50 most recent Droplet actions
  digitalocean.cloud.actions_info:
    token: "{{ token }}"
    resource_type: droplet
    limit: 50

Return Values

Key Returned Description

Key	Returned	Description
`actions` list	always	Actions. Sample: `[ { "completed_at": "2020-03-13T19:21:47.442049222Z", "id": 12345678, "region": { "name": "New York 1", "slug": "nyc1" }, "resource_id": 12345678, "resource_type": "droplet", "started_at": "2020-03-13T19:20:47.442049222Z", "status": "completed", "type": "create" } ]`
`error` dict	failure	DigitalOcean API error. Sample: `{ "Message": "Informational error message.", "Reason": "Unauthorized", "Status Code": 401 }`
`msg` str	always	Actions result information. Sample: `[ "Current actions", "No actions" ]`

actions
list

always

Actions.
Sample:

[
  {
    "completed_at": "2020-03-13T19:21:47.442049222Z",
    "id": 12345678,
    "region": {
      "name": "New York 1",
      "slug": "nyc1"
    },
    "resource_id": 12345678,
    "resource_type": "droplet",
    "started_at": "2020-03-13T19:20:47.442049222Z",
    "status": "completed",
    "type": "create"
  }
]

error
dict

failure

DigitalOcean API error.
Sample:

{
  "Message": "Informational error message.",
  "Reason": "Unauthorized",
  "Status Code": 401
}

msg
str