Hootsuite is a social media management platform that lets organizations schedule posts, monitor conversations, run paid campaigns, and analyze performance across LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest from a single dashboard. The platform serves marketers, agencies, and enterprises with collaboration, approval, and governance workflows. Hootsuite publishes four first-party machine-readable API contracts on platform.hootsuite.com — a 48-operation REST API for messages, media, social profiles, members, teams and SCIM 2.0 provisioning; an Analytics API for organic and paid metrics; the Inbox 2.0 (Sparkcentral) API for CRM, virtual agents, queues and proactive messaging; and the Amplify employee-advocacy API — all authenticated with OAuth 2.0. It also serves an RFC 9727 API catalog, RFC 8414 authorization server metadata and RFC 9728 protected resource metadata.
Hootsuite publishes 21 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Authentication API, Comments API, and 18 more. Tagged areas include Social Media, Social Media Management, Marketing, Content Scheduling, and Analytics.
The Hootsuite catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Hootsuite’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, pricing, and 41 more developer resources.
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A remote Model Context Protocol endpoint served from Hootsuite's own ReadMe-hosted developer documentation site. Reachable and real, but gated — initialize and tools/list both r...
Hootsuite uses OAuth2 to authenticate end users. Members authenticated with the Hootsuite API are subject to the same permissions configured as when using the Hootsuite Web Dash...
If you want to update contact attributes asynchronously, you'll need to call the Contact API. When calling the Contact API, the client needs to be authenticated. The [REST API a...
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name: Hootsuite
description: Hootsuite is a social media management platform that lets organizations schedule posts, monitor conversations,
run paid campaigns, and analyze performance across LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest
from a single dashboard. The platform serves marketers, agencies, and enterprises with collaboration, approval, and governance
workflows. Hootsuite publishes four first-party machine-readable API contracts on platform.hootsuite.com — a 48-operation
REST API for messages, media, social profiles, members, teams and SCIM 2.0 provisioning; an Analytics API for organic and
paid metrics; the Inbox 2.0 (Sparkcentral) API for CRM, virtual agents, queues and proactive messaging; and the Amplify
employee-advocacy API — all authenticated with OAuth 2.0. It also serves an RFC 9727 API catalog, RFC 8414 authorization
server metadata and RFC 9728 protected resource metadata.
type: Index
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label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
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subscription is seat-priced separately. The Ow.ly URL shortener API and organization apps for prescreen components are
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x-docs-platform-confidence: high
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\ requests, we use the token in the Authorization Header to authenticate."
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url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/getting-started-with-the-rest-api
- type: Authentication
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-authentication
- type: OAuth 2.0
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/enabling-oauth-20
- type: Postman
url: https://app.getpostman.com/run-collection/eeda0fcdf55ea26bd0ec
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/hootsuite-webhooks.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hootsuite-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/hootsuite-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/hootsuite-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/analytics-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/analytics/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/using-the-api
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/hootsuite-scopes.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/inbox-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/inbox/index.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/amplify-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://amplify.hootsuite.com/api-docs
- aid: hootsuite:hootsuite-messages-api
name: Hootsuite Messages API
description: The Messages API from Hootsuite — 5 operation(s) for messages.
humanURL: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
baseURL: https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1
tags:
- Message
tags_raw:
- Messages
properties:
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url: openapi/hootsuite-messages-api-openapi.yml
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url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/index.html
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url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/getting-started-with-the-rest-api
- type: Authentication
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-authentication
- type: OAuth 2.0
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/enabling-oauth-20
- type: Postman
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- type: DataModel
url: data-model/hootsuite-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/analytics-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/analytics/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/using-the-api
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/hootsuite-scopes.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/inbox-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/inbox/index.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/amplify-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://amplify.hootsuite.com/api-docs
- aid: hootsuite:hootsuite-organizations-api
name: Hootsuite Organizations API
description: The Organizations API from Hootsuite — 7 operation(s) for organizations.
humanURL: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
baseURL: https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1
tags:
- Organization
tags_raw:
- Organizations
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/hootsuite-organizations-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/getting-started-with-the-rest-api
- type: Authentication
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-authentication
- type: OAuth 2.0
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/enabling-oauth-20
- type: Postman
url: https://app.getpostman.com/run-collection/eeda0fcdf55ea26bd0ec
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/hootsuite-webhooks.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hootsuite-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/hootsuite-problem-types.yml
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- type: Documentation
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- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/using-the-api
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url: scopes/hootsuite-scopes.yml
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url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/inbox-overview
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- type: Documentation
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- type: APIReference
url: https://amplify.hootsuite.com/api-docs
- aid: hootsuite:hootsuite-proactive-messaging-rest-api-api
name: Hootsuite Proactive Messaging Rest API
description: "When calling the Proactive Messaging API, the client needs to be authenticated. \n\nThe [REST API authentication](#tag/rest-api-authentication)\
\ section contains more details on how to authenticate your client.\n\n### Examples\n\n1. Send a proactive text message\n\
\nThe following example shows a proactive outbound message that can be sent as a text message. Inbox 2.0 supports text\
\ messaging on WhatsApp\nEnterprises are responsible for ensuring that the customers have opted-in for proactive communications.\n\
\nRequest\n\n```shell\ncurl -X POST https://platform.hootsuite.com/inbox/v1/proactive-messaging/ \\\n -H 'Authorization:\
\ Bearer <token>' \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{ \"medium\": \"WHATSAPP\", \"channel\": \"myChannel\"\
, \"contact\": \"+32495123456\", \"text\": \"Hello world!\" }'\n```\n\nResponse `200`\n\n```json\n{\n \"correlationId\"\
: \"3a7c6c1d-9f9b-11e8-b23b-6f13d5844b66\"\n}\n```\n\n2. Send a proactive message template (WhatsApp)\n\nWhatsApp allows\
\ for proactive outbound communication when these are sent as message templates that have been authorized by WhatsApp.\
\ These templates have a name, corresponding text, and substitution parameters within the text to make them personalized.\n\
Inbox 2.0 has simplified how enterprises can send out these message templates through the use of shorthand codes for inline\
\ syntax:\n\n```text\n&((namespace=[[NAMESPACE]] template=[[TEMPLATE NAME]] fallback=[[FALLBACK TEXT]] language=[[LANGUAGE]]\
\ body_text=[[VARIABLE1]] body_text=[[VARIABLE2]]))&\n```\n\n| Parameter name | Parameter description \
\ | Required |\n|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|\n\
| namespace | Unique code provided by WhatsApp while defining message templates. \
\ | true |\n| template | Name of the template provided on WhatsApp Manager. \
\ | true |\n| fallback | We recommend setting\
\ the same value as the Template name here. | true |\n\
| language | The language in which the messages should be sent. The language needs to be defined in the WhatsApp\
\ Manager. | true |\n| body_text | The variable text. 0, 1, or multiple variables in a message.\
\ Per variable, there needs to be a body_text parameter. | true |\n\nThe language codes can be found on: <https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/message-templates/creation>\n\
\nEnterprises construct the messages in shorthand and send it in the text field as shown in the following code.\n\nRequest\n\
\n```shell\ncurl -X POST https://platform.hootsuite.com/inbox/v1/proactive-messaging/ \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer\
\ <token>' \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{ \"medium\": \"WHATSAPP\", \"channel\": \"myChannel\"\
, \"contact\": \"+32495123456\", \"text\": \"&((namespace=[[3c860f8b_1ae3_1105_b9ea_647e69aa2d49]] template=[[welcome_customer]]\
\ fallback=[[welcome_customer]] language=[[en]] body_text=[[Gregory]] body_text=[[How can I help you?]]))&\" }'\n```\n\
\nResponse `200`\n\n```json\n{\n \"correlationId\": \"3a7c6c1d-9f9b-11e8-b23b-6f13d5844b66\"\n}\n```\n\n3. Get status\
\ overview\n\nRequest\n\n```shell\ncurl -X GET https://platform.hootsuite.com/inbox/v1/proactive-messaging/3a7c6c1d-9f9b-11e8-b23b-6f13d5844b66\
\ \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer '\n```\n\nResponse `200`\n\n```json\n{\n \"correlationId\": \"3a7c6c1d-9f9b-11e8-b23b-6f13d5844b66\"\
,\n \"total\": 1,\n \"statuses\": {\n \"SENT\": 1\n }\n}\n```\n\n4. Get status details\n\nRequest\n\n```shell\n\
curl -X GET https://platform.hootsuite.com/inbox/v1/proactive-messaging/f988bd0f-9f9d-11e8-b23b-7d351b0c7ce9/FAILED \\\
\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer '\n```\n\nResponse 200\n\n```json\n[\n {\n \"status\": \"FAILED\",\n \"contact\"\
: \"+32495123456\",\n \"reason\": \"No channel found for medium TWIT\"\n }\n]\n```"
humanURL: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
baseURL: https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1
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url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-authentication
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- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/hootsuite-rate-limits.yml
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- type: DataModel
url: data-model/hootsuite-data-model.yml
- type: Documentation
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- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/using-the-api
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/hootsuite-scopes.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/inbox-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://apidocs.hootsuite.com/docs/api/inbox/index.html
- type: Documentation
url: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/amplify-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://amplify.hootsuite.com/api-docs
- aid: hootsuite:hootsuite-queue-rest-api-api
name: Hootsuite Queue Rest API
description: 'When calling the Queue API, the client needs to be authenticated.
The [REST API authentication](#tag/rest-api-authentication) section contains more details on how to authenticate your
client.'
humanURL: https://developer.hootsuite.com/docs/api-overview
baseURL: https://platform.hootsuite.com/v1
tags: []
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- queue_rest_api
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