addCampaign.md

Add Campaign

This guide will walk you through the process of creating your first campaign using the Python library.

Required Access Level: ModifyCampaigns

What's a campaign?

When using Elastic Email, when you send an email to any group of contacts we call that a "campaign".

To send a campaign you need a template (which becomes the email body itself) and you need contacts (the recipients who receive the email).

Preparation

Install Python 3.

Install ElasticEmail library.

Eg. run in terminal pip install ElasticEmail to install from PyPi repository.

Create a new Python file snippet.py and open it in editor of your preference eg. PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/)

Let's dig into the code

Put the below code to your file.

Load libraries using below code:

import ElasticEmail
from ElasticEmail.apis.tags import campaigns_api
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign import Campaign
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_recipient import CampaignRecipient
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_status import CampaignStatus
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_template import CampaignTemplate
from pprint import pprint

Generate and use your API key (remember to check a required access level).

Defining the host is optional and defaults to https://api.elasticemail.com/v4

configuration = ElasticEmail.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

Pass configuration to an api client and make it instance available under api_client name:

with ElasticEmail.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:

Create an instance of CampaignsApi that will be used to create a campaign.

    api_instance = campaigns_api.CampaignsApi(api_client)

Create an example campaign object:

• Name: defines campaign name by which you can identify it later
• Recipients: define your audience
• Conent: define your message details
• Status: define status in which campaign should be created

Find out more by checking our API's documentation: https://elasticemail.com/developers/api-documentation/rest-api#operation/campaignsPost

Send will be triggered immediately or postponed, depending on given options. Because we define Status as Draft, so in this case it will be postponed and campaign will be added to drafts.

    campaign = Campaign(
        Content=[
            CampaignTemplate(
                From="example@email.test",
                ReplyTo="example@email.test",
                Subject="Hello",
                TemplateName="hello_template",
            ),
        ],
        Name="hello campaign",
        Status=CampaignStatus("Draft"),
        Recipients=CampaignRecipient(
            list_names=[
                "my list name",
            ],
        ),
    )

Use try & except block to call campaigns_post method from the API to create a campaign:

    try:
        api_response = api_instance.campaigns_post(body = campaign)
        pprint(api_response)
    except ElasticEmail.ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling CampaignsApi->campaigns_post: %s\n" % e)

The whole code to copy and paste:

import ElasticEmail
from ElasticEmail.apis.tags import campaigns_api
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign import Campaign
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_recipient import CampaignRecipient
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_status import CampaignStatus
from ElasticEmail.model.campaign_template import CampaignTemplate
from pprint import pprint

configuration = ElasticEmail.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

with ElasticEmail.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = campaigns_api.CampaignsApi(api_client)

    campaign = Campaign(
        Content=[
            CampaignTemplate(
                From="example@email.test",
                ReplyTo="example@email.test",
                Subject="Hello",
                TemplateName="hello_template",
            ),
        ],
        Name="hello campaign",
        Status=CampaignStatus("Draft"),
        Recipients=CampaignRecipient(
            list_names=[
                "my list name",
            ],
        ),
    )

    try:
        api_response = api_instance.campaigns_post(body = campaign)
        pprint(api_response)
    except ElasticEmail.ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling CampaignsApi->campaigns_post: %s\n" % e)

Run the code

python3 snippet.py