API

The DigitalOcean API lets you programmatically manage your Droplets and other resources using conventional HTTP requests. Any action that you can perform through the DigitalOcean Control Panel (except for creating personal access tokens) can also be performed with the API.

Getting Started

API Introduction

Get familiar with the structure and behavior of the DigitalOcean API.

API Usage Examples

See examples of how to format requests to interact with the DigitalOcean API.

Create an Access Token

Create a personal access token for use with the DigitalOcean API.

API Reference Documentation

DigitalOcean API Reference

Programmatically manage Droplets and other DigitalOcean resources using conventional HTTP requests. All of the functionality in the DigitalOcean Control Panel is also available through the API.

Spaces API Reference

Programmatically manage your data with Spaces’ AWS S3-compatible object storage API

Metadata API Reference

The metadata API allows a Droplet to access information about itself including user data, Droplet ID, datacenter region, and IP addresses.

OAuth API Reference

The OAuth API is a secure method for authenticating users and allowing third-party applications limited access to your servers or DigitalOcean user accounts.

API Clients

godo

The official DigitalOcean API client for Go.

github.com

DropletKit

The official DigitalOcean API client for Ruby.

github.com

DigitalOcean API Libraries

Official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.

More Information

Keep up to date with changes to our APIs using the API filter in our release notes section.

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Latest Updates

8 August 2022

• Rocky 8.6 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

12 July 2022

• The DigitalOcean API now supports listing Droplets by name by using the name query parameter, as in GET /v2/droplets?name="your_droplet_name". Learn more in the API documentation.

7 July 2022

• Fedora 34 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Fedora 34 image via the API. We will remove the Fedora 34 image from the platform on 7 August 2022.

For more information, see the full release notes.