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Contacts request example

Post/Contacts

Contacts are the foundation of the inwise platform. Two key fields can be used to create contacts: the email address or/and the mobile number.
Create or update contacts by using email address or/and mobile number.
You may add more additional data field (we call them personal fields) such as firs name, last name, birthdate etc.
You can add contacts to a specific contact group using the add_to_groups_ids object, and the key is the Group ID, you can find it in your inwise account.

Example 1 – Add 1 contact

{
  "id": 0,
  "email": "contact1@company.com",
  "mobile_number": "972541111111",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "field1",
      "content": "test name"
    }
  ],
  "confirmation_status": "confirmed",
  "add_to_groups_ids": [
    721129
  ],
  "remove_from_groups_ids": [
    0
  ],
  "remove_from_all_other_groups": true,
  "clear_existing_fields": true,
  "external_id": "string"
}

Example 2 – Add contact with personal fields (first name, last name, birthday)

{
  "email": "contact1@company.com",
  "mobile_number": "972541111111",
  "fields": [
    { "name": "field1",
      "content": "fname1"
    },
    { "name": "field2",
      "content": "lname1"
    },
    { "name": "field21",
      "content": "12/06/1980"
    }
  ],
  "confirmation_status": "confirmed",
  "add_to_groups_ids": [715983]
}

Example 3 – Add contact with support for local mobile

{

"email": "contact1@company.com",

"mobile_number": "0541111111",

"trim_mobile_number_leading_zero":true,

"add_default_country_to_mobile_number_only_if_not_exists":true,

"mobile_number_default_country_code":"972",

"fields": [

{ "name": "field1",

"content": "fname1"

},

{ "name": "field2",

"content": "lname1"

},

{ "name": "field21",

"content": "12/06/1980"

}

],

"confirmation_status": "confirmed",

"add_to_groups_ids": [715983]

}

POST /contacts/batchInsert

An example of calling the method to import contacts

{
"csv_file": 
Email,Mobile,Firstname,Lastname
contact1@company.com,0541111111,fname1  ,lname1
contact2@company.com,0541111112,fname2,lname2
",
  "fields_mapping": [
    { "field_name": "[Email]", "file_column_name": "Email" },
    { "field_name": "[MobileNumber]", "file_column_name": "Mobile" },
    { "field_name": "1", "file_column_name": "Firstname" },
    { "field_name": "2", "file_column_name": "Lastname" }
  ],
        "group_id": "XXXXXX",
  "updateExistingContacts": true,
  "country_code": "972",
  "trim_leading_zero": true
}
' 'https://api.inwise.com/rest/v1/contacts/batchInsert'

GET /contacts

This method returns the 1000 most recent contacts from your inwise account. As a result, a list of contacts will be generated with their personal fields.

search_by_updated_or_added_date=false – Don’t refer to the updated contacts, but only the created ones.
limit=1000 – Return up to 1000 rows, which is the maximum possible.
reset=false – Rows returned in previous reads will not be returned in future reads. Each time you make a call, you will only receive new contacts.

{
curl -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'X-API-Key: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' 'https://api.inwise.com/rest/v1/contacts/recently_updated?search_by_updated_or_added_date=false&reset=false&limit=1000'

Response code

If everything goes well, you should get a success response (Response code 200) with a JSON body giving you the id of the contact created.
If you get (Response code 422) – Failed because of a conflict. Its mean that “The email exists for contact ID #439130785.The mobile number exists for contact ID #439134049.”

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