[127070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upcoming Improvements to ARIN's Directory Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Jun 12 10:26:04 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:25:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: <m2vd9owe9w.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> john,
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> today, a research batch script running periodic bulk whois work has a
> line something like
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> ncftpget ftp://user:pass@ftp.arin.net/arin_db.txt.gz
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> well, it can actually be simpler.
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> for the web 9.3 impaired of us, could you describe the simple batch
> script line under the new improved system?
Randy - You're going to have to get on ARIN Online at least=20
once to generate an key (this means after June 26), but then
accessing the data should be just as simple for a batch script
(i.e. use curl or wget for this purpose). I've extracted the=20
relevant draft info from the June 26 release documents and=20
attached below. This is obviously subject to change until=20
the release actually comes out...
/John
---- DOWNLOADING USING AN API KEY ----
The report can be downloaded directly without logging into=20
ARIN Online using a RESTful HTTP request containing your=20
API key. The URL must look like:
https://www.arin.net/public/rest/downloads/nvpr?apikey=3DYOUR-API-KEY
There are a variety of ways to automate the retrieval of=20
this report. For example, on a Linux system, where your=20
API key is API-1111-2222-3333-4444, you can use the=20
following 'curl' command to download the report file:
curl https://www.arin.net/public/rest/downloads/nvpr?apikey=3DAPI-1111-2222=
-3333-4444 > arin_nvpr.zip
You can manage your API keys on the when logged into your=20
ARIN Online account.
