Mikrotik Api Examples Review

Update a Cloudflare DNS record with the router's public IP every 5 minutes.

import librouteros, requests, time
ROUTER_IP = '192.168.88.1'
API_USER = 'api_user'
API_PASS = 'api_pass'
CLOUDFLARE_ZONE = 'your_zone_id'
CLOUDFLARE_RECORD = 'your_record_id'
CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN = 'bearer_token'
def get_public_ip(api):
# Get public IP from router's WAN interface
addresses = api.path('ip', 'address')
for addr in addresses:
if addr['interface'] == 'ether1' and not addr['address'].startswith('192.168'):
return addr['address'].split('/')[0]
return None
def update_cloudflare(ip):
url = f"https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/CLOUDFLARE_ZONE/dns_records/CLOUDFLARE_RECORD"
headers = 'Authorization': f'Bearer CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'
data = 'type': 'A', 'name': 'dynamic.example.com', 'content': ip, 'ttl': 120
requests.put(url, headers=headers, json=data)
def main():
api = librouteros.connect(host=ROUTER_IP, username=API_USER, password=API_PASS)
while True:
public_ip = get_public_ip(api)
update_cloudflare(public_ip)
time.sleep(300)  # 5 minutes mikrotik api examples
if name == 'main':
main()

Change queue max-limit at 9 AM and 6 PM.

import datetime, time
def set_bandwidth(api, upload, download):
queue = api.path('queue', 'simple')
# Assuming queue named 'office'
queue.update('office', max_limit=f'uploadM/downloadM') Update a Cloudflare DNS record with the router's
def scheduler_loop():
api = librouteros.connect(...)
while True:
now = datetime.datetime.now().time()
if datetime.time(9,0) <= now <= datetime.time(9,5):
set_bandwidth(api, 100, 20)  # 100M/20M daytime
elif datetime.time(18,0) <= now <= datetime.time(18,5):
set_bandwidth(api, 10, 2)    # 10M/2M night
time.sleep(60)
scheduler_loop()

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Limit a specific IP to 5Mbps download / 2Mbps upload. Change queue max-limit at 9 AM and 6 PM

queue = api.path('queue', 'simple').add(
    name='customer-001',
    target='192.168.88.100/32',
    max_limit='5M/2M',   # upload/download
    comment='API traffic limit'
)

# Scan for APs
def scan_wireless(interface='wlan1'):
    results = api('/interface/wireless/scan', 
        'interface': interface,
        'duration': '5',
        'once': ''
    )
    for ap in results:
        print(f"ap['ssid'] - ap['signal-strength'] dBm - ap['address']")
curl -k -s -X PUT "https://$HOST:$PORT/rest/ip/firewall/filter" 

-b cookies.txt 

-H "content-type: application/json" 

-d '"chain":"input","protocol":"tcp","dst-port":"22","action":"drop","comment":"API added"'

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package main
import (
  "bytes"
  "encoding/json"
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
)
func main() {
  client := &http.Client{}
  url := "https://ROUTER_IP/rest/ip/address"
  payload := map[string]string"address":"192.0.2.40/24","interface":"ether1"
  b, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(b))
  req.SetBasicAuth("admin","yourpass")
  req.Header.Set("Content-Type","application/json")
  resp, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil  panic(err) 
  defer resp.Body.Close()
  fmt.Println("Status:", resp.Status)
}

For binary API in Go, use packages like github.com/go-routeros/routeros.

queues = api('/queue/simple/print', '?name': 'user1') if queues: api('/queue/simple/remove', '.id': queues[0]['.id'])

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# Disable an interface
api('/interface/set', 
    '.id': 'ether2',
    'disabled': 'yes'
)