freenom API not authenticating

Question

I want to automatically update Freenom's DNS record to my current global IP address because I don't have a static IP. So I looked into Freenom's API and gave it a go. I tried this: https://api.freenom.com/v2/domain/list?email=*****&password=******* and was expecting a list of active domains. But instead got this error back:

{
    "error": "Login credentials do not match any account",
    "status": "error"
}

Which is odd because I have checked the credentials and they are 100% correct. Instead of the email property I also tried a username property and I tried setting this information through HTTP headers and through the body, but I got nothing.

If anyone knows how I can get the API to work, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

According to this article the Freenom API is only available for resellers. I ran into the same issue myself. You can use a program that accesses the Freenom UI to change the DNS records, like this one, which uses Python and the UI to update DNS records. Or you can use another DNS provider, which is what I did.