Get Contact Event Details (Sends, Clicks, etc) Code Snippet

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‎03-23-2011 04:42 PM
‎03-23-2011 04:42 PM

Step 1) Find the id of the contact you are interested in


Step 2) Retrieve the set Click Events for that contact

 

Step 1 of 2: Request the id of the Contact (email address) you are interested in

 

Here is the sample code retrieve the contact by email address using the Contacts Resource, Querying the Contacts Collection.

 

Header locationHeader;
   // URL to get all of the "sends" events for contact id 32 (John's Contact ID) 
   GetMethod httpGet = new GetMethod(
	"https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts?email=jflowers@mail.com");
   try {
       int status = httpClient.executeMethod(httpGet);
       if (status >= 400){
           throw new RuntimeException("HTTP request failed with status: " + httpGet.getStatusText() + ". message: " + httpGet.getStatusLine());
       }
       //response XML can be parsed using parser of choice.
       System.out.println(httpGet.getResponseBodyAsString());
   } catch (Exception ex) {
       throw new RuntimeException(
	    "Caught exception while GETting "
		    +  httpGet.getURI(),
	    ex);
   } finally {
       // release any connection resources used by the method
       httpGet.releaseConnection();
   }

 

The response body will look something like this:

 

 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">   
<id>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts</id>   
<title type="text">Contacts for Customer: joesflowers</title>   
<link href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts" />   
<link href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts" rel="self" />   
<author>     
<name>joesflowers</name>   
</author>   
<updated>2008-10-16T13:43:52.342Z</updated>   
<link href="/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts" rel="first" />   
<link href="/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts" rel="current" />   
<entry>     
<link href="/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32" rel="edit" />     
<id>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32</id>     
<title type="text">Contact: jflowers@mail.com</title>     
<updated>2008-10-16T13:43:52.360Z</updated>     
<author>       
<name>Constant Contact</name>     
</author>     
<content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">       
<Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32">         
<Status>Active</Status>         
<EmailAddress>jflowers@mail.com</EmailAddress>         
<EmailType>HTML</EmailType>         
<Name></Name>         
<OptInTime>2008-09-09T14:44:14.233Z</OptInTime>         
<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>         
<Confirmed>false</Confirmed>         
<InsertTime>2008-09-09T14:44:14.233Z</InsertTime>       
</Contact>     
</content>   
</entry> 
</feed>

 

The next step is to retrieve the clicks associated with this contact using the Contact Events Service for this unique Contact Id.

 

 

Step 2 of 2: Request the set of clicks for that Contact


Here is Java sample code to retrieve the clicks for the Contact


   Header locationHeader;
   // URL to get all of the "sends" events for contact id 32 (John's Contact ID) 
   GetMethod httpGet = new GetMethod(
	"https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks");
   try {
       int status = httpClient.executeMethod(httpGet);
       if (status >= 400){
           throw new RuntimeException("HTTP request failed with status: " + httpGet.getStatusText() + ". message: " + httpGet.getStatusLine());
       }
       //response XML can be parsed using parser of choice.
       System.out.println(httpGet.getResponseBodyAsString());
   } catch (Exception ex) {
       throw new RuntimeException(
	    "Caught exception while GETting "
		    +  httpGet.getURI(),
	    ex);
   } finally {
       // release any connection resources used by the method
       httpGet.releaseConnection();
   }

The xml result of the above code would be some thing similar to following. 



Below xml shows the format of the response that is being refered. Highlighted URLs are the campaigns in which click happened by the given contact in requested URI.
ID attribute in ClickEvent tag represents unique identifier for every event.


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <id>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks</id>
  <title type="text">Click Events for Customer: joesflowers, Contact id: 1</title>
  <link href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks" />
  <link href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks" rel="self" />
  <author>
    <name>joesflowers</name>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-10-15T18:09:45.070Z</updated>
  <link href="/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks" rel="first" />
  <link href="/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks" rel="current" />
  <entry>
    <id>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks/1100537019381,1,12...</id>
    <title type="text">Click Event for Customer: joesflowers, 
Campaign: http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/110053...
</title>
    <updated>2008-10-03T18:39:02.910Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      <ClickEvent xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks/1100537019381,1,12...">
        <Contact id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32">
          <EmailAddress>jflowers@mail.com</EmailAddress>
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32" rel="self" />
        </Contact>
        <Campaign id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/1100537019381">
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/1100537019381" rel="self" />
        </Campaign>
        <EventTime>2008-10-03T18:39:02.910Z</EventTime>
        <LinkUrl>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://www.boston.com</LinkUrl>
      </ClickEvent>
    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks/1100536902615,1,12...</id>
    <title type="text">
Click Event for Customer: joesflowers, Campaign: http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/110053...
</title>
    <updated>2008-09-29T17:09:53.887Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Constant Contact</name>
    </author>
    <content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
      <ClickEvent xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/" id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32/events/clicks/1100536902615,1,12...">
        <Contact id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32">
          <EmailAddress>jflowers@mail.com</EmailAddress>
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/contacts/32" rel="self" />
        </Contact>
        <Campaign id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/1100536902615">
          <link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" href="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/joesflowers/campaigns/1100536902615" rel="self" />
        </Campaign>
        <EventTime>2008-09-29T17:09:53.887Z</EventTime>
        <LinkUrl>< a style="text-decoration: none;" onclick="return false" onmouseover="return false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onfocus="return false">http://www.boston.com</LinkUrl>
      </ClickEvent>
    </content>
  </entry>
</feed>

Accessing the set of Email sends, bounces, forwards or unsubscribes can be done in a similar manner.

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