Mailchimp

Mailchimp Contacts API

The contacts API from Mailchimp — 6 operation(s) for contacts.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Customer Data Management BC-420.10

Operations 8

Each operation below carries the questions people ask an LLM about it and the instructions they give an agent to run it. Generated by API Evangelist overlay

GET /audiences List audiences in the account · Get a list of audiences #
Ask an LLM
“What audiences do I have in my Mailchimp account?”
“Can I page through all my audiences?”
Tell an agent
List all my audiences.
List {count} audiences starting from offset {offset}.
GET /audiences/{audience_id} Get details of one audience · Get audience info #
Ask an LLM
“Where can I see the details of a single audience?”
“How is a specific audience configured?”
Tell an agent
Get audience {audience_id}.
Show the settings of audience {audience_id}.
GET /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts List contacts in an audience · Get Contacts #
Ask an LLM
“Who are the omni-channel contacts in one of my audiences?”
“Can I list only contacts updated since last week?”
Tell an agent
List contacts in audience {audience_id}.
List contacts in audience {audience_id} updated since {updated_since}.
POST /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts Add a contact to an audience · Add Contact #
Ask an LLM
“How do I add a new contact with an email and SMS channel to an audience?”
“Can I update an existing contact instead of getting a conflict error when adding one?”
Tell an agent
Add a contact with email channel {email_channel} to audience {audience_id}.
Add a contact with SMS channel {sms_channel} and tags {tags} to audience {audience_id}.
GET /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts/{contact_id} Get one contact in an audience · Get Contact #
Ask an LLM
“Can I look up a single contact in an audience by id or channel hash?”
“What merge fields and tags does one contact have?”
Tell an agent
Get contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id}.
Show the tags and merge fields of contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id}.
PATCH /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts/{contact_id} Update an existing contact · Update Contact #
Ask an LLM
“How do I change the merge fields on a contact that's already in my audience?”
“Can I add tags to an existing contact without removing the ones it has?”
Tell an agent
Update merge fields of contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id} to {merge_fields}.
Add tags {tags} to existing contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id}.
POST /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts/{contact_id}/actions/archive Archive a contact · Archive Contact #
Ask an LLM
“How do I archive a contact so they stop counting in my audience?”
“Can I archive a single contact through the API?”
Tell an agent destructive · confirm first
Archive contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id}.
Move contact {contact_id} of audience {audience_id} to the archive.
POST /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts/{contact_id}/actions/forget Forget a contact · Forget Contact #
Ask an LLM
“How do I make Mailchimp forget a contact entirely?”
“Can I erase a contact's data when they ask to be forgotten?”
Tell an agent destructive · confirm first
Forget contact {contact_id} in audience {audience_id}.
Erase contact {contact_id} from audience {audience_id} for good.

Specifications

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https://artifacts.apis.io/mailchimp/openapi/mailchimp-contacts-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

mailchimp-contacts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 3.0.91
  title: Mailchimp Marketing Contacts API
  contact:
    name: Mailchimp API Support
    email: apihelp@mailchimp.com
  x-permalink: https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-client-lib-codegen/blob/main/spec/marketing.json
servers:
- url: https://server.api.mailchimp.com/3.0
security:
- basicAuth: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/mailchimp/openapi/mailchimp-contacts-api-openapi.yml