I am trying to make a POST call work from within Google Apps scripts into the V2 create API.
I have it working, but it doesn’t execute the user_data formatted in either cloud-init or just as shell commands. Nothing shows in the logs either. Any help is appreciated!
function createDroplet(){
var url = "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets";
var payload = {
"name":"NAMEOFHOST",
"region":"sfo2",
"size":"s-1vcpu-1gb",
"image":"ubuntu-18-04-x64",
"tags":["TAG1", "TAG2"],
"user_data": "curl -s https://Script.sh | sh"
};
var options = { "method": "post", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer " + DOToken, "Content-Type": "application/json"},"payload": JSON.stringify(payload) };
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
}
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I discovered that you can use the Unicode encoding to put the LF in the json, and all it well now. For those wondering the code is :
\u000A
so “user_data” needed to look like this
"user_data": "#!/bin/bash \u000A \
/usr/bin/curl -s https://SCRIPT | sh
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