Adding an A Record with GoDaddy API

Question

I'm trying to add an A record to a domain using GoDaddy's API, but I'm getting a 422 (Unprocessable Entity) response error in the console of my browser. However, when I test the request using GoDaddy's documentation on https://developer.godaddy.com/doc#!/_v1_domains/recordAdd/ArrayOfDNSRecord I get a 404 response error with the body below:

Body of error response:

{
  "code": "UNKNOWN_DOMAIN",
  "message": "The given domain is not registered, or does not have a zone file",
  "name": "_Class"
}

The domain I'm trying to add the A record to definitely exists, so I don't know why it would return a 404 error. I have no problem retrieving all of the A records belonging to the domain using a GET request, but when I try to run the PATCH request below I get the errors.

Is there something wrong with GoDaddy's API or is there an issue with how I'm structuring my request?

PATCH request that returns error

$.ajax({
  type: 'PATCH',
  url: 'https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/{domain}/records',
  data: {
    'records': [{
      'type': 'A',
      'name': 'test',
      'data': '255.255.255.255'
    }]
  },
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'sso-key {API_KEY}:{API_SECRET}'
  },
  success: function(body) {
    console.log(body);
  }
});

GET request that works fine

$.ajax({
  type: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.godaddy.com/v1/domains/{domain}/records/A',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': 'sso-key {API_KEY}:{API_SECRET}'
  },
  success: function(body) {
    $.each(body, function(i, v) {
      $('body').append('<p>Name: ' + v.name + '<br/>Data: ' + v.data + '</p>');
    });
  }
});

Answer 1

I just experienced this same issue and the problem for me was caused by combining their "OTE" and "Production" services.

Since you're making the query to api.godaddy.com and not api.ote-godaddy.com, you need to be using a "Production" key and secret, and have your site operating in a production environment as opposed to GoDaddy's Operating Test Environment.