Notifications Subscriptions API: Manage end-user subscriptions to email notifications triggered by the Bazaarvoice platform.
Add Email Address to Opt-In List
The Bazaarvoice Notifications Subscriptions API enables you to manage end-user subscriptions to email notifications triggered by the Bazaarvoice platform. To learn more, go to the Notifications Subscriptions API home page.
Contents
This page explains how to subscribe users to email notifications sent by the Bazaarvoice platform.
Introduction
Subscribing users is a two step process involving:
Continue reading to learn how to perform step #2. Refer to the Tools page to view Open API specs and Postman collections that help you interact with the Notifications Subscriptions API.
Request
POST /notifications/<client-name>/subscriptions/subscribe?passkey=<your-api-key>&userToken=<email-auth-token>&emailType=<email-type> HTTP/1.1 HOST: [stg.]api.bazaarvoice.com Content-Type: application/json
Use this request to add an encrypted email address to the opt-in list for a particular email type. This will subscribe that email address to the email type and remove the email address from the corresponding opt-out list for that email type.
Parameters
All parameters are required, unless otherwise noted.
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Path |
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[stg.] |
Optional. Use to make request in a non-production context. Refer to Environments to learn more. |
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<client-name> |
Lower case customer name associated with your API key. Look this up in the Bazaarvoice Portal. |
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Query String |
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passkey |
Your public API key. Look this up in the Bazaarvoice Portal. |
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userToken |
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emailType |
Capitalized email type. See Notifications Types. |
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Headers | ||
Content-Type |
application/json |
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Accept |
Optional. If included must be |
Response body
Response will be a JSON object. The following demonstrates a typical response:
{ "client": "apitestcustomer", "emailAddress": "12c9736cf20452e5198e9bea7b539323c19107672bf958bd3072fa06e0c87bc0", "subscriptionType": "OPT_IN", "emailType": "PIE", "time": "2014-01-24T00:12:46.178Z", "emailAddressHash": "de7061b71475c6f62274b0ff561ac01c5e1507b9869598ac6de82ec6b0752060", "_id": "52e1ad4145631c82e6b158a7" }
The emailAddress
value can be decrypted following the process described at Decrypting Email Addresses.