Add Email Address to Opt-Out List

Introduction

Unsubscribing users is a two step process involving:

Create an email authentication token
Add the token to an opt-out list.

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/unsubscribe?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-out list for a particular email type. This will unsubscribe that email address from the email type and remove the email address from the corresponding opt-in list for that email type.

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Parameters

All parameters are required, unless otherwise noted.

Name	Description
Path
`[stg.]`	Optional. Use to make request in a non-production context. Refer to Environments to learn more.
`<client-name>`	Lower case customer name associated with your API key. Look this up in Bazaarvoice Portal.
Query String
`passkey`	Your public API key. Look this up in Bazaarvoice Portal. .
`userToken`	See Create Email Authentication Token.
`emailType`	Capitalized email type. See Notification Types.
Headers
`Content-Type`	`application/json`
`Accept`	Optional. If included must be `application/json`.

Response body

Response will be a JSON object. The following demonstrates a typical response:

{
    "client": "apitestcustomer",
    "emailAddress": "12c9736cf20452e5198e9bea7b539323c19107672bf958bd3072fa06e0c87bc0",
    "subscriptionType": "OPT_OUT",
    "emailType": "PIE",
    "time": "2014-01-24T00:01:05.062Z",
    "emailAddressHash": "de7061b71475c6f62274b0ff561ac01c5e1507b9869598ac6de82ec6b0752060",
    "_id": "52e1ad4145631c82e6b158a7"
}

The emailAddress value can be decrypted following the process described at Decrypting Email Addresses.