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When to use the MailUp REST API

The MailUp REST API gives you access to a variety of methods to manage email campaigns, subscribe and unsubscribe recipients, and retrieving statistics, bounces, etc.

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Before choosing the REST API as the technical solution for integration with your application, ensure that you have read the section about the Best practices

 

The MailUp REST API gives you remote and flexible access to many of the features available in the MailUp admin console. For example...

Recipient management
Message management
Campaign management
Statistics retrieval
Account provisioning

Import recipients, get import status
Retrieve lists, groups, email messages, etc.
Subscribe, unsubscribe, update recipients
Create and modify groups
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See Manage Lists and Groups and Recipients

Create, modify, delete a message
Create a message from a template
Retrieve a list of messages
Add and remove images
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See Email messages#Emailmessages

Send a message to a List
Send a message to a Group
Send a message to a Recipient
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See Email messages#SendEmailMessages

Retrieve details on sent messages 
Retrieve opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes
Retrieve stats for the last N hours
Retrieve stats for a specific period
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See Email Statistics

Request new free trial account
Obtain request status
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See Accounts

Getting started

  1. Read

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  1. our best practices to understand what you can do and learn the recommended approaches.

  2. Download Demo Client

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  1.  and choose among several available programming languages.

  2. Test Resource Access with your MailUp account

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  1. . Don't have one? Request a developer account.

  2. After getting acquainted with the API, get your

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  1.  & build your own application

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(*) Don't have one? Request a developer account

Building your application

When you have completed the "Getting Started" steps listed above you can start building your application. There are some things to know about MailUp REST API:

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Integrating your application

A few things to keep in mind:

  • The MailUp REST API uses Oauth2 and requires a token refresh. You can use

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  •  to see how to refresh the authorization token

  • By properly setting the request header you can set the response format as JSON or XML

  • Each application is tied to a set of application keys, which are used to authorize the application (get yours).

  • Users of the application will be authenticated using their own MailUp account credentials.
  • The application keys used in the

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  • sample code shall not be used in a production environment.

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Getting stuck while developing your application?

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Take another look at the "Getting Started" section

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: the demo client can help a lot. Also, before contacting us, please consider that

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most of the questions that we receive are about

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  • Wrong credentials (e.g. trying to access to your production

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  • account with the credentials of your developer

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  • account, or viceversa).

  • Unexpected behavior of an API call

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  • due to unchecked error codes that were returned by previous API calls.

  • Developers that are unfamiliar with MailUp terminology (Resource Access section and related links should be helpful)

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Related resources

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A complete email messaging API

When to use the MailUp REST APIThe MailUp REST API gives you access to a variety of methods to manage email campaigns, subscribe and unsubscribe recipients, and retrieving statistics, bounces, etc. 

Recipient management

Message management

Campaign management

Statistics retrieval

Account provisioning

Import recipients, get import status

Retrieve lists, groups, email messages, etc.

Subscribe, unsubscribe, update recipients

Create and modify groups

...See Manage Lists and Groups and Recipients

Create, modify, delete a message

Create a message from a template

Retrieve a list of messages

Add and remove images

...See Email messages

Send a message to a List

Send a message to a Group

Send a message to a Recipient

...  See Send Email Messages

and also Transactional Emails

Retrieve details on sent messages 

Retrieve opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes

Retrieve stats for the last N hours

Retrieve stats for a specific period

...See Email Statistics

Request new free trial account

Obtain request status

...See Accounts


Info

Before choosing the REST API as the technical solution for integrating your application, ensure that you have read our best practices.