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Web APIs are application programming interfaces over the web that can be accessed using HTTP protocol. Server hosting providers such asVeesp provide programmatic access to get and post data to manage our servers and the services that they provide.

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can automateVeesp VPS tasks in Python usingrequests library, alright let's get started.

First, let's install requests library:

pip3 install requests

After youcreate your own account, you can order some cheap VPS with some bucks, here is a list of available services:

I've chose Linux SSD VPS here, feel free to choose any one you like, and I've used the sandbox option in the following list:

Once paid and your VPS is properly activated, you can follow along now, open up a new Python file or interactive shell (prefered) and follow along:

import requestsfrom pprint import pprint

I'm usingpprint just for printing API results nicely.

Define a tuple that contains your real authentication credentials on your Veesp account:

# email and passwordauth = ("email@example.com", "ffffffff")

You will need to pass thisauth tuple to every API call you make.

Let's start off by getting account details:

# get the HTTP Responseres = requests.get("https://secure.veesp.com/api/details", auth=auth)# get the account detailsaccount_details = res.json()pprint(account_details)

requests.get() function sends aHTTP GET request to that URL with your authentication, here is my result (with hidden sensitive information of course):

{'client': {'address1': '',            'city': '',            'companyname': '',            'country': 'US',            'email': 'email@example.com',            'firstname': 'John Doe',            'host': '0.0.0.0',            'id': '29401',            'ip': '0.0.0.0',            'lastlogin': '2019-11-06 11:18:04',            'lastname': '',            'newsletter': [''],            'phonenumber': '',            'postcode': '',            'privacypolicy': [''],            'state': ''}}

Let's see our service we just bought:

# get the bought servicesservices = requests.get('https://secure.veesp.com/api/service', auth=auth).json()pprint(services)

This will output:

{'services': [{'id': '32723',   'domain': 'test',   'total': '4.000',   'status': 'Active',   'billingcycle': 'Monthly',   'next_due': '2019-12-06',   'category': 'Linux SSD VPS',   'category_url': 'vps',   'name': 'SSD Sandbox'}]}

Awesome, so this is a monthly Linux SSD VPS with a total cost of4$.

You can also see the VM upgrade options and make an upgrade request automatically, always refer totheir official documentation for more information.

Let's list all VMs we own:

# list all bought VMsall_vms = requests.get("https://secure.veesp.com/api/service/32723/vms", auth=auth).json()pprint(all_vms)

32723 is my serviceID as shown above, so you should edit that with your ownID.

This will output some thing like this:

{'vms': {'18867': {'bandwidth': 100,                   'burstmem': -512,                   'cpus': '1',                   'disk': 10,                   'id': '18867',                   'ip': ['hiddenip', ' 2a00:1838:37:3bd::ae42'],                   'ipv6subnets': ['2a00:1838:37:3bd::/64'],                   'label': 'test',                   'memory': 512,                   'pae': 0,                   'password': 'hiddenpassword',                   'pxe': 0,                   'state': 'online',                   'template': 'linux-debian-10-x86_64-min-gen2-v1',                   'template_label': 'Debian Buster 10 64 bit',                   'usage': {'bandwidth': {'free': 100,                                           'percent': '0',                                           'total': 100,                                           'used': 0},                             'disk': {'free': 10,                                      'percent': '0',                                      'total': 10,                                      'used': 0},                             'memory': {'free': 0,                                        'percent': '0',                                        'total': 0,                                        'used': 0}}}}}

I've hid the real IP address and password of my VPS, but you can see I chose a linux debian distro with10GBSSD disk,512GB of memory and1CPU, etc.

Now let's stop the VPS:

# stop a VM automaticallystopped = requests.post("https://secure.veesp.com/api/service/32723/vms/18867/stop", auth=auth).json()print(stopped)

18867 is my VMID, you should use your ownID of course.

Note that I'm usingrequests.post() function here instead, this function sendsHTTP POST request to that URL.

The above code outputs:

{'status': True}

Great, that means it successfully stopped the VPS, let's see it in the Veesp dashboard:

Let's start it again:

# start it againstarted = requests.post("https://secure.veesp.com/api/service/32723/vms/18867/start", auth=auth).json()print(started)

Output:

{'status': True}

That's cool, now you can use SSH access to it as it is online as shown in the dashboard:

To wrap up, you can make many cool things with this API, not just the ones that are seen in this tutorial, check theirofficial website and theirAPI documentation for more features. I hope this tutorial will make you aware of Web APIs and their benefit of automating various tasks, not just VPSs and dedicated servers.

Also, this tutorial introduces you to Web APIs, feel free to make your own scripts to automate various things of your own needs.

Happy Coding ♥

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