Renewing your services via the OVHcloud API

Objective

Natively, OVHcloud offers you the option of renewing your solution automatically. However, you can also use OVHcloud APIs to renew your services.

This guide explains how to renew your services via the OVHcloud API.

Requirements

• Access to the OVHcloud API.
• You need to have created your login details for the OVHcloud API.

Instructions

To use the renewal API, you will need your serviceId. You can get this information via the serviceInfos API, for example:

You can also use the following API to list your services:

List the different renewal strategies

If you want to list the different renewal strategies available for a given service, this is the API to use:

A RenewDescription list will appear with two keys:

• renewPeriod: a renewal period (in ISO 8601 format)
• strategies: a list of RenewStrategy (renewal strategies)

A RenewStrategy contains a price and a list of services to be renewed. Renewing a domain name is one strategy; renewing a domain name and its hosting plan is another. The strategies therefore list all potential combinations for a given service: associated services, options, etc.

Below is an example in Python for retrieving renewal information:

import ovh
client = ovh.Client()
     
client.get('/service/12345/renew',
includeOptions=False, // Include service's option(s) (type: boolean)
)

Here is an example of a result that we can analyse, with the example being taken over a given period of time:

[
  {
    "renewPeriod": "P1Y",
    "strategies": [
      {
        "services": [
          12345
        ],
        "price": {
          "value": 1.99
           },
           "servicesDetails": [
             {
               "serviceType": "Domain .ovh",
               "serviceId": 12345
           }
         ]
       },
       {
         "services": [
           67890,
           12345
           ],
           "price": {
           "value": 37.87
         },
         "servicesDetails": [
           {
             "serviceType": "Hosting Perso 2014",
             "serviceId": 67890
           },
           {
             "serviceType": "Domain .ovh",
             "serviceId": 12345
           }
         ]
       }
     ]
   }
 ]

Please refer to the renew API for more information on the format of the result:

Create a new purchase order for renewals

To create a new purchase order for a renewal, you will need to specify which services are to be renewed, and for which period:

import ovh
client = ovh.Client()
 
client.post('/service/12345/renew',
    dryRun=False, // Indicates if renew order is generated (type: boolean)
    duration='P1Y',
    services=[
        67890,
        12345
    ]
)

Which will give the following response:

{
  "expirationDate": "2018-05-16T15:49:06+02:00",
  "password": "aBcD",
  "date": "2018-05-15T15:49:06+02:00",
  "priceWithTax": {
    "value": 45.44,
    "text": "45.44 \u20ac",
    "currencyCode": "EUR"
  },
 "tax": {
    "value": 7.57,
    "text": "7.57 \u20ac",
    "currencyCode": "EUR"
  },
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.ovh.com/cgi-bin/order/displayOrder.cgi?orderId=123456789&orderPassword=aBcD",
  "orderId": 123456789,
  "url": "https://www.ovh.com/cgi-bin/order/displayOrder.cgi?orderId=123456789&orderPassword=aBcD",
  "priceWithoutTax": {
    "value": 37.87,
    "text": "37.87 \u20ac",
    "currencyCode": "EUR"
  },
 "retractionDate": null
}

You will now be able to settle this purchase order via the order API:

Example: renewing a VPS

import ovh
client = ovh.Client()

myVps = "vps112233.ovh.net"
expectedRenewPeriod = "P3M"

def checkStrategy(choices, serviceId):
     
    for choice in choices:
       if choice['renewPeriod'] != expectedRenewPeriod:
           continue
       for strategy in choice['strategies']:
           services = strategy['services']
           if len(services) == 1 and serviceId in services:
                return True
     
raise ValueError('Unable to find expected service/renewPeriod in choices')
     
     
def main():
     
    serviceId = client.get('/vps/{}/serviceInfos'.format(myVps))['serviceId']

    choices = client.get('/service/{}/renew'.format(serviceId))
    checkStrategy(choices, serviceId)

    order = client.post('/service/{}/renew'.format(serviceId),
        dryRun=False,
        duration=expectedRenewPeriod,
        services=[
           serviceId
       ]
   )

    client.post('/me/order/{}/payWithRegisteredPaymentMean'.format(order['orderId']),
        paymentMean='paypal',
        paymentMeanId=1234
    )
if __name__ == '__main__':
 
    main()
 

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