REST Email Marketing API Documentation

Segments — AddRecipients

Add recipients to an existing fixed segment.

HTTP VERB

Post

URL

/API/Rest/Segments/AddRecipients

ARGUMENTS

name	The name of the existing fixed segment
emailAddresses	An array of email addresses to add

Required permission

CreateEditFixedSegment

ERRORS

No Permission
Invalid segment name
Segment is not a fixed segment
No recipients provided to add to the fixed segment
Too many API calls
Database error
Unknown error

RETURNS

A structure with three arrays, duplicateInFile, alreadyInSegment, and badRecipients. Everyone who is not listed was added to the segment successfully.

{"duplicateInFile":[],"badRecipients":["joe@example.com","fred@example.com"],"alreadyInSegment":["nancy@example.com"]}

EXAMPLE

Add a recipient to a fixed segment.

string message = "{'accountName':'acme','login':'ApiUser', 'password':'sdve4t3gfd', 'name':'Test1', 'emailAddresses':['joe@example.com', 'abc@aol.com', 'sam@hotmail.com', 'rick@aol.com', 'doug@yahoo.com']}";
string url = "http://example.com/api/rest/Recipients/AddRecipients";
								
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/Recipients/AddRecipients'
args = {'accountName'=>'acme', 'login'=>'ApiUser', 'password'=>'sdf3w4tw', 'name'=>'Test1','emailAddresses'=>['joe@example.com', 'abc@aol.com', 'sam@hotmail.com', 'rick@aol.com', 'doug@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/Segments/AddRecipients";
args = {'accountName':'acme', 'login':'ApiUser', 'password':'f334f3fg3', 'name':'Test1', 'emailAddresses':['joe@example.com', 'abc@aol.com', 'sam@hotmail.com', 'rick@aol.com', 'doug@yahoo.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':'f334f3fg3', 'name':'Test1', 'emailAddresses':['joe@example.com', 'abc@aol.com', 'sam@hotmail.com', 'rick@aol.com', 'doug@yahoo.com']}" http://www.example.com/API/Rest/Segments/AddRecipients