DigitalOcean provides several command-line interfaces (CLIs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing your resources. This section provides the reference materials for these offerings, as well as resources from the open source community.

DigitalOcean API Overview

Programmatically manage your Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources using conventional HTTP requests. You can use our RESTful APIs for any action that you can perform through the control panel.

doctl Command Line Interface (CLI)

Manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line with doctl, our open-source command line interface (CLI).

Terraform

Deploy and change many resources simultaneously using the open source Terraform tool.

DigitalOcean Libraries

This is a list of official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.

Open-Source Software

We use and contribute to open source software.

Latest Updates

22 April 2024

• We’ve corrected a bug where image types other than snapshots could be listed using the GET /v2/snapshots endpoint. This behavior was strictly limited to image types that the user was properly authorized to access, such as backups and custom images.

17 April 2024

• Custom scopes for personal access tokens (PATs) are now generally available.

  Previously, DigitalOcean PATs had only two scopes: read access to all team resources or full (read and write) access to all team resources. Custom scopes introduce more specific permissions, like creating Droplets or updating cloud firewalls, which lets you secure your workflows by granting only the permissions the token needs and restricting access to other resources and actions.

12 April 2024

• Team members with the biller role can no longer access information about shared resources. Previously, billers could access this information via the API, but not the control panel.

For more information, see the full release notes.