AWS Python SDK | Route 53 - delete resource record

amazon-route53, amazon-web-services, aws-sdk, dns, python

Solution

You need a nested 'ResourceRecords' array in the ResourceRecordSet, which has the current 'target' value of the record.

    HostedZoneId=zone_id,
    ChangeBatch={
        'Changes': [
            {
                'Action': 'DELETE',
                'ResourceRecordSet': {
                    'Name': record,
                    'Type': r_type,
                    'TTL': 300,
                    'ResourceRecords': [
                        {
                            'Value': target
                        }
                    ]
                }
            }
        ]
    }

Problem

How to delete a DNS record in Route 53? I followed the documentation but I still can't make it work. I don't know if I'm missing something here. Based on the documentation: DELETE : Deletes a existing resource record set that has the specified values for Name , Type , SetIdentifier (for latency, weighted, geolocation, and failover resource record sets), and TTL (except alias resource record sets, for which the TTL is determined by the AWS resource that you're routing DNS queries to). But I'm always getting this error: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "./test.py", line 37, in <module> main() File "./test.py", line 34, in main print(del_record()) File "./test.py", line 23, in del_record 'TTL': 300 File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 251, in _api_call return self._make_api_call(operation_name, kwargs) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/botocore/client.py", line 537, in _make_api_call raise ClientError(parsed_response, operation_name) botocore.exceptions.ClientError: An error occurred (InvalidInput) when calling the ChangeResourceRecordSets operation: Invalid request ``` Here's my code: ``` #!/usr/bin/env python3 import boto3 r53 = boto3.client('route53') zone_id = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO' record = 'me.domain.com' r_type = 'CNAME' r_val = 'google.com' def del_record(): response = r53.change_resource_record_sets( HostedZoneId=zone_id, ChangeBatch={ 'Changes': [ { 'Action': 'DELETE', 'ResourceRecordSet': { 'Name': record, 'Type': r_type, 'TTL': 300 } } ] } ) return response def main(): print(del_record()) if __name__ == '__main__': main() ```

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