Email API
API change historyEmail API contains methods for handling various aspects of email campaigns (design, send) as well as recipients (list of email addresses, additional data to merge into message text), etc.
sendCampaignPreview
Send a preview of any draft campaign to a number of email addresses you specify. Any personalization tags in your draft campaign will be populated using fallback values.
Try itRequest
Request URL
Request parameters
-
string
Format - uuid. Campaign ID
Request headers
-
string
The authorization token. The token will be in the format "Bearer API_KEY". For example: "Authorization: Bearer 123456789". Please include the space between "Bearer" and "API_KEY".
Request body
Campaign preview send details
{
"PreviewRecipients": [
"[email protected]",
"[email protected]"
]
}
{
"required": [
"PreviewRecipients"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"PreviewRecipients": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "An array of intended recipients of the campaign preview (email addresses)."
}
}
}
Responses
200 OK
Campaign preview successfully sent.
400 Bad Request
The request was incorrect. These are the possible errors which may be included in the body of the response:
Code | Description |
---|---|
333 | No Test Campaigns Available Each customer can send a limited number of test campaigns (of less than 6 recipients) and campaign previews. Contact support if you have any queries. |
340 | Recipient Lists Empty The selected subscriber lists and/or segments contain no subscribers |
370 | No Preview Recipients Supplied Preview Recipients must have at least one email address. |
371 | Invalid Preview Recipient Emails Preview Recipients must all be valid email addresses. A collection of Recipients to indicate which intended recipients were invalid email addresses is also returned. <Result>
<Code>371</Code>
<Message>PreviewRecipients must all be valid email addresses</Message>
<ResultData>
<Recipient>[email protected]</Recipient>
<Recipient>not_even_close</Recipient>
</ResultData>
</Result>
|
373 | Recipient Not In Campaign Lists Personalisation email address must be a recipient of the campaign. |
374 | Too Many Preview Recipients You can only send to fifteen (15) addresses at once. |
375 | Client Test Campaign Rate Violation You can only send to 240 addresses every 1440 minutes (24 hours). |
376 | Campaign Must Have Content And Recipients Campaign must have content and recipient lists assigned. |
Representations
{
"Code": 303,
"Message": "Duplicate Campaign Name"
}
{
"required": [
"Code",
"Message"
],
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"Code": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Error code",
"format": "int32"
},
"Message": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Error message"
}
}
}
401 Unauthorized
The API key is invalid. Please verify it is correct and try again.
Representations
{
"status": 401,
"message": "API key is invalid."
}
403 Forbidden
There is not enough credits on your account or your account has been suspended. Please check with your account representative for more information.
Representations
{
"status": 403,
"message": "Not enough credits in this account."
}
429 Too many requests
The number of API calls has been exceeded. The return will include the number of seconds (represented by (number of seconds) in the example) until the API call can be tried again.
Representations
{
"status": 429,
"message": "Rate limit is exceeded. Try again in {number of seconds} seconds."
}
500 Internal Server Error
Some error occurred in the processing request. Please try it again at a later time.
Representations
{
"status": 500,
"message": "An internal error has occurred. We have been notified about it and will restore service functionality as soon as possible."
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X POST "https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview"
-H "Authorization: Bearer API_KEY"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer API_KEY");
var uri = "https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview?" + queryString;
HttpResponseMessage response;
// Request body
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");
using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
{
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
}
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer API_KEY");
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer API_KEY");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
},
type: "POST",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"Bearer API_KEY" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
[_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Authorization' => 'Bearer API_KEY',
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Authorization': 'Bearer API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.touchbasepro.com')
conn.request("POST", "/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Authorization': 'Bearer API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.touchbasepro.com')
conn.request("POST", "/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.touchbasepro.com/email/campaigns/{campaignId}/sendpreview')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer API_KEY'
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body