REST Email Marketing API Documentation

HELDRECIPIENTS — ADD

Add recipients marked as held - meaning their email address is invalid. The recipient must already be created in the system.

HTTP VERB

Post

URL

/API/Rest/Held

ARGUMENTS

Array of emailAddresses

Required permission

CreateEditMember

ERRORS

No Permission
Too many email addresses. 1000 maximum per batch.
Database error
Unknown error

RETURNS

A structure with three arrays, alreadyHeld, notInDatabase, and duplicatedInFile.

{"alreadyHeld":["ken@aol.com"],"notInDatabase":["odd@yahoo.com","hm@aol.com","mo@msn.com","mg@yahoo.com","km.com"],"duplicateInFile":["sam@yahoo.com"]}

EXAMPLE

string message = "{'accountName':'acme','login':'ApiUser', 'password':'sdve4t3gfd', 'emailAddresses':['joe@example.com', 'rob@aol.com', 'alman@msn.com', 'anh@live.com', 'annak@yahoo.com']}";
string url = "http://example.com/api/rest/HeldRecipients";
								
try
{
	System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
	request.Method = "POST";
	request.ContentType = "application/json";
	request.ContentLength = message.Length;
	using (Stream webStream = request.GetRequestStream())
		using (StreamWriter requestWriter = new StreamWriter(webStream, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII))
			requestWriter.Write(message);
								
	System.Net.WebResponse webResponse = request.GetResponse();
	using (Stream webStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream())
		using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(webStream))
			Console.Out.WriteLine(responseReader.ReadToEnd());
}
catch (Exception e)
{
	System.Diagnostics.Debug.Fail(e.Message);
}

# encoding: utf-8
require 'rest-client'
require 'json'
							
url = 'http://www.acme.com/api/rest/HeldRecipients'
args = {'accountName'=>'acme', 'login'=>'ApiUser', 'password'=>'sdf3w4tw', 'emailAddresses'=>['joe@example.com','rob@aol.com','alman@msn.com','anh@live.com','annak@yahoo.com']}
response = RestClient.post(url, args.to_json, :content_type => "application/json;charset=utf-8")
puts response

import requests

url = "http://www.example.com/api/rest/HeldRecipients";
args = {'accountName':'acme','login':'ApiUser','password':'sdfs87fysdf7sd','emailAddresses':['fred@aol.com','sam@yahoo.com','1', 'ken@aol.com', 'bo@yahoo.com','henry@aol.com','moz@msn.com','mike@yahoo.com','jean@aol.com']}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
resp = requests.post(url, json=args, headers=headers)
if resp.status_code == 200:
	print resp.text

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{'accountName':'acme','login':'ApiUser', 'password':'sdfs87fysdf7sd','emailAddresses':['fred@aol.com','sam@yahoo.com','1', 'ken@aol.com', 'bo@yahoo.com','henry@aol.com','moz@msn.com','mike@yahoo.com','jean@aol.com']}" http://example.com/api/rest/HeldRecipients