Contact Counts API Methods

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Note: Notice that in each API call you must provide the List ID that you are working on, otherwise the default List ID will be used.

Methods Summary

GET /api/contact_counts/<id>

Description

This method provides a count for specific Count ID.
In order to get a Count Id, first use POST /api/contact_counts method as detailed in the next section.

Response

GET URL: https://api.ongage.net/api/contact_counts/<id>

{
    "metadata": {
        "error": false,
        "total": "917655"
    },
    "payload": {
        "active": 743895,
        "bounced": 172413,
        "complaint": 966,
        "unsubscribed": 381
    }
}

Error Codes

404 - Not found

POST /api/contact_counts

Description

Initiate a count process, typically used to get the latest count for a Segment but can also be done on a criteria.

This method returns a Count ID in response.
You will need the Count ID returned from this POST request, in the GET method above, in order to get the number count of contacts for the segment/criteria provided in the POST request.
Some users might only want to issue a count, so the latest segment count will be seen in the Ongage UI, in which case there's no need to save the Count ID, nor use the GET command.

Request

segment_id

Required (only when criteria is empty) int

criteria

Required (only when segment_id is empty) array of arrays - Criteria to filter by results

*field_name : String - The field_name for this criteria

*type : String - The type of field (string/numeric/email/date)

*operator : String - "LIKE" / "NOT LIKE" / "_LIKE" (begins with) / "LIKE_" (ends with) / "empty" / "notempty" / "=" / "!=" / "><" / ">" / "<" / ">=" / "<="

*operand : Array - Array of operand values, will be filter with OR condition

*case_sensitive: 1 or 0 - Case sensitivity

Criteria Example

POST URL: https://api.ongage.net/<list_id>/api/contact_counts

{
    "criteria": {
      "field_name": "name",
      "type": "string",
      "operator": "LIKE",
      "operand": [ "John", "Mary" ],
      "case_sensitive": "0"
    }
}

Response

  { "payload": { "id": 30 } }

Above is the ID to use in the GET method.

Error Codes

404 - Not found
500 - Validation error

Segment Count Example

Segment Count Post Example

POST URL: https://api.ongage.net/<list_id>/api/contact_counts/

{"segment_id": 1234567890}

Response

{
  "metadata": {
    "error": false
  },
  "payload": {
    "id": 1112223334
  }
}

Above is the ID to use in the following GET method.

Segment Count Get Example

GET URL: https://api.ongage.net/<list_id>/api/contact_counts/1112223334

{
    "metadata": {
        "error": false,
        "total": "917655"
    },
    "payload": {
        "active": 743895,
        "bounced": 172413,
        "complaint": 966,
        "unsubscribed": 381
    }
}