{"id":1756,"date":"2025-10-11T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:04:48","slug":"certbot-dns01-manual-python-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/blog\/tools\/certbot-dns01-manual-python-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Python script for certbot &#8211;manual-auth-hook and &#8211;manual-cleanup-hook for DNS-01 challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use a custom Python script as a hook for manual DNS-01 challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<pre><code>certbot certonly --non-interactive --agree-tos \\\n    --email webmaster@example.com \\\n    --manual --preferred-challenges dns \\\n    --manual-auth-hook \/path\/to\/certbot-hook.py auth \\\n    --manual-cleanup-hook \/path\/to\/certbot-hook.py cleanup \\\n    -d example.com -d *.example.com<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can use the same script for both auth and clean up - pass <code>auth<\/code> or <code>cleanup<\/code> as the first argument to distinguish.<\/p>\n<h3>Auth call<\/h3>\n<pre><code>CERTBOT_ALL_DOMAINS=example.com,example.com\nCERTBOT_DOMAIN=example.com\nCERTBOT_REMAINING_CHALLENGES=1|0\nCERTBOT_VALIDATION=abc...def<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>Cleanup call<\/h3>\n<p>All of the above plus<\/p>\n<pre><code>CERTBOT_AUTH_OUTPUT=<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Full documentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/eff-certbot.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/using.html#pre-and-post-validation-hooks\">https:\/\/eff-certbot.readthedocs.io\/en\/stable\/using.html#pre-and-post-validation-hooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use a custom Python script as a hook for manual DNS-01 challenge. Example: certbot certonly &#8211;non-interactive &#8211;agree-tos \\ &#8211;email webmaster@example.com \\ &#8211;manual &#8211;preferred-challenges dns \\ &#8211;manual-auth-hook \/path\/to\/certbot-hook.py auth \\ &#8211;manual-cleanup-hook \/path\/to\/certbot-hook.py cleanup \\ -d example.com -d *.example.com You can use the same script for both auth and clean up &#8211; pass auth or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/blog\/tools\/certbot-dns01-manual-python-hook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Python script for certbot &#8211;manual-auth-hook and &#8211;manual-cleanup-hook for DNS-01 challenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[989,935],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-certbot","tag-python","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}