DNS - API help

I am trying to wrap my head around the API/XMWS/Senitor Guide. Maybe you can help me?

I would like to use the API to write a record into a domain's DNS zone entries from a bash script.
Later it would be added as a module into Sentora.

An example of use is when I was using a dynamic IP and needed a mail relay to send emails from my Sentora hosted domains. To validate with the mail relay I needed a TXT record added to my domain's DNS.

Or, more specifically, and probably most interesting to everyone is the ability to auto-renew Letsencrypt Wildcard SSL certs.  Without API access to validate DNS TXT entries --Wildcard certs still require manual updates.



So I'm looking at existing API examples and hope you might be able to help me as I try to work it out.

Thanks

@TGates
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