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07-07-2016
03:19 PM
Hello,
It's possible that you might not be going far enough into the object structure to get the next link. Here's a quick example of how you could get the link:
if "next_link" in response["meta"]["pagination"]:
next = response["meta"]["pagination"]["next_link"]
In the above code I also show the best way to determine if a next link is present or not, so you know if you need to continue with pagination. You can read more about how pagination works with our API here: https://v2.developer.constantcontact.com/docs/developer-guides/paginated-output.html
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Sincerely,
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06-29-2016
11:01 AM
Hello,
Thank you for following up on this! We've had a number of priorities that were shifted over the last year, but we have come back around on the support for tags and other contact management features that were unavailable in our API. While tag support is not currently available on the API, we are working on a major update for our API offering that will include this and some other missing features in the near future.
To stay up to date, you can follow our tech blog (http://techblog.constantcontact.com/ ) and/or subscribe to our developer newsletter which is on the right-hand side of the tech blog.
Sincerely,
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06-01-2016
10:22 AM
1 Kudo
Hello,
The best solution to this issue involves having a very minimal hosted page under your control that can be used as the redirect, which would then pass the request back to wordpress. This can be done by taking advantage of OAuth 2.0 allowing query parameters to be freely appended to the redirect URI. So for example, you can set up your redirect URI as http://www.google.com and then send http://www.google.com?redirect=yahoo.com with the actual authorization request. This process would allow the page you control to read the "redirect" parameter and simply forward the request along, including any relevant OAuth parameters. It is also very important to mention that this specific process only works with the Server flow rather than the Client flow.
To give a bit of clarity on the two flows, the client flow is created for implementations such as a mobile app where you need to capture the token from a browser object and store it locally. The client flow accomplishes this by appending the token as a URL fragment, which cannot be passed along in the scenario I described above. The server flow is better suited to applications such as a wordpress plugin due to the dynamic URL.
Hopefully this provides some clarity, but please let me know if there's any questions!
Sincerely
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04-12-2016
11:13 AM
1 Kudo
Hello,
Thank you for the feedback! In this case it's a bit complicated, as the document you linked is specific to our V1 API which does not have the same errors as our V2 API. This is a bit tricky to document for V2 as we opted to show the status codes on a per-endpoint basis rather than having a global table. In particular this code doesn't make a great deal of sense to document on every endpoint, as it only shows up when you've entered the URL incorrectly and are not calling a valid service that would contain a valid endpoint.
I'll chat with the team here and see if we can come up with a way to document this better!
Sincerely,
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04-12-2016
10:00 AM
1 Kudo
Hello,
In the case of a 596 error, it will be an issue with the URL used to call the API is almost every case. For our V2 API, the service is determined by the part of the URL immediately following /v2/. For example, when calling /v2/lists you are calling the lists service. A 596 error indicates that the service name provided was invalid.
After reviewing the SDK, I found that there was indeed a bug where it calls /v2/list instead of /v2/lists. You can see the issue here: https://github.com/magellantoo/ctct-python-sdk/blob/master/constantcontact/listservice.py#L47
I've submitted a pull request for the author of the SDK to review. You can see the change needed to fix this here: https://github.com/magellantoo/ctct-python-sdk/pull/4/files
Hopefully this helps you to get up and running!
Sincerely,
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03-17-2016
11:51 AM
1 Kudo
Hello,
In the case of a conflict when sending unmodified data, the most likely cause is a contact in a Confirmed state. This is because the PUT action always updates a field, even if the input is the same as the previous value, and the email address of a Confirmed contact can only be changed with an action by that contact. If you're working on an implementation that handles groups of contacts, I would definitely advise making use of our bulk APIs, as they do not have this same limitation as a result of being unable to change email addresses.
You can find information about our bulk APIs here: https://v2.developer.constantcontact.com/docs/bulk_activities_api/bulk-activities-import-contacts.html
Sincerely,
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12-17-2015
10:51 AM
Hello,
I went to check and it looks like you've already reached out directly to our support team and had the footer logo removed. If you have any other questions or need any assistance, please let me know!
Sincerely,
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12-10-2015
02:24 PM
Hi Barton,
I had to do a bit of research on this, but we've addressed this with our new Third Generation editor that we're slowly rolling out by building our templates, and the images in them, to be responsive an adapt to the size of viewing window. As far as other methods, I am unfortunately not familiar with other methods to force outlook to render images at the desired size when DPI scaling is in effect.
If you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to ask!
Sincerely,
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06-22-2015
06:02 PM
Hello,
The method that you are seeing is the auto-generated get method for the EmailAddresses property of the Contact class. When you specify a property that has a get/set method, the actual method names are auto-generated as get_PropertyName and set_PropertyName. In this case, it seems that a location of your code is attempting to read the EmailAddresses property of the Contact object and is not able to find the get method. I would likely need to see the code more closely, but you should be able to dig a bit deeper by looking for code where you read the EmailAddresses property of a Contact object.
Another notable possibility is that there could be an issue where the binary DLL that's being used for the Constant Contact .NET SDK may be corrupted. You could try a very simple step of re-compiling the SDK to a DLL and using the new DLL. IF you recently updated the DLL, there were some updated to the SDK that could have caused this issue. It may be needed to recompile the application while referencing the new DLL.
If I can provide any more information or if we can review any additional information, please let me know!
Sincerely,
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03-12-2015
04:57 PM
Hello Georgia,
I have been working on this and doing some extensive testing over the past few days. What you are trying to accomplish is not specifically unsupported by Constant Contact, however, there is currently an issue that our engineers are working on that has also impacted your solution to this problem. At present the information that you are including in the header can be used on a custom HTML(not XHTML) email through our advanced editor.
However, the additional attributes that you are including on the <html> tag are not currently able to be sent.
Unfortunately my level of knowledge about this solution to the outlook DPI scaling issue is not enough to know how/if this solution will function without the additional attributes in the html tag. If you have access to a microsoft system with outlook where you can easily test how it performs with adjusted DPI settings, I would suggest creating a few test campaigns to see if this solution is functional.
If you have any questions, please let me know and I will be happy to do what I can to help!
Sincerely,
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11-03-2014
02:25 PM
Hi David,
Based on what you're describing, it sounds like the api_key URL parameter on your request is either missing or malformed. It is important to make sure that the api_key URL parameter is always included in every request. If the parameter is missing, then you will receive this error message informing you that it was not able to verify that you have a valid API key.
As an additional note, you can also receive this message if you have not verified the email address that was used to create your Mashery developer account.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
Best Regards,
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10-30-2014
01:07 PM
Hi Richard,
Thank you for your feedback on this and for sharing your experience with us. In this case, it is not likely that this will change, as the limitation that a redirect URI must always match is part of the OAuth 2.0 specification that we are implementing for authentication. Because this is a core part of the OAuth implementation, it is not likely that it will be changed. One aspect of that limitation is that this leaves using a central agent that can pass that redirect on to the correct user as the only option to implement this properly.
Best Regards,
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10-30-2014
12:12 PM
Hello,
I have checked on the status of this and while this is a targeted feature for our APIs, we currently do not have a timeline for when this will be available. In order for this functionality to become available in the API, there is some other development that will need tobe done by other teams as well. Because of this, we are not currently able to specify a timeframe for when this will be available through the APIs.
Sincerely,
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07-30-2014
12:39 PM
Hi Zachary,
I have taken some time to dig into this, and I found that the reason you are seeing an error from that one contact is because that contact was deleted through the UI. When a contact is deleted in the UI, there is no longer any access to that contact's related events. This should definitely be returning a status other than 500, and I will be looking into what we can do about that.
The easiest way to avoid this is to double-check the contact's status by making a request to https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/USERNAME/contacts/CONTACTID first to get the status. If the stataus is REMOVED, then you will not have access to the events for that contact.
Please let us know if you are still having any issues!
Best Regards,
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07-29-2014
02:56 PM
Hello Thomas,
We are definitely working on bringing many of our systems up to date with Unicode support. While I do not have any timelines for when you can expect to see specific changes, we are definitely working on changing this. As our various systems gain support for the Unicode character set, you will also gain that expanded capability through the API.
Thank you for your feedback!
Best Regards,
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07-21-2014
05:08 PM
1 Kudo
Hi Tony,
You can simply use the API Key and Access Token that is generated through the MAshery I/O Docs. The OAuth flow is provided specifically for use with applications that want to connect with multiple Constant Contact accounts. If you are working to create console applications that would be expected to access multiple unique Constant Contact applications, you would likely need a database and a secondary application to handle the OAuth flow so that you can gather the Access Tokens for those accounts.
Also as a last note, I want to clarify that an API key is used to identify your application, and an Access Token identifies and authenticates a Constant Contact account. There should be 1 API key per unique application, and there can be any number of Access Tokens that involve a given API key.
If you have any questions about this, please let me know!
Best Regards,
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07-07-2014
04:57 PM
Hello,
Regarding issues with Constant Contact for Salesforce, we have assigned the development team responsible for that application to begin working on this error message. I have been testing this issue personally and in my testing so far it appears that the imports are completing successfully, but the application is showing an error message when it should not be. At this time I do not yet know the exact ETA for when this will be resolved, but you should still be able to update your contact lists from Salesforce.
If you are having problems with your contacts not importing at all, please let me know!
Best Regards,
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06-24-2014
10:11 AM
Hello locherlav,
I believe that this code you are working on is a conversion of an existing code to create a bulk upload fom VB.NET to C#. During the conversion process, several important parts of the multipart request were broken. I have taken the time to correct the code and you should see success with the code below. Please take a moment to read the comments in the code, as they are relevant to having it work properly.
Code:
HttpWebRequest httpclient = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/activities/addcontacts?api_key=wv7crkj3rk3gy52ykqegkxqq");
string boundary = "--" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
string filename = "F:\\constant contact Wrapper\\Constant.csv";
httpclient.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer 2269f201-044b-45f7-8015-e5e107555dd5");
httpclient.Method = "POST";
httpclient.ContentType = string.Format("multipart/form-data");
httpclient.Accept = "application/json";
httpclient.PreAuthenticate = true;
StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine(boundary);
sb.AppendLine("content-disposition: form-data; name=\"file_name\"");
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine("Constant.csv"); // filename
sb.AppendLine(boundary);
sb.AppendLine("content-disposition: form-data; name=\"lists\"");
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine("1"); // Constant Contact List ID Number
sb.AppendLine(boundary);
sb.AppendLine("content-disposition: file; name=\"data\" filename=\"emailkust.csv\"");
sb.AppendLine("Content-Type: text/csv");
sb.AppendLine();
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
byte[] contents = new byte[fs.Length];
fs.Read(contents, 0, contents.Length);
sb.Append(Encoding.Default.GetString(contents));
}
sb.AppendLine(boundary + "--");
byte[] fulldata = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(sb.ToString());
using (Stream sw = httpclient.GetRequestStream()) {
sw.Write(fulldata, 0, fulldata.Length);
}
try {
HttpWebResponse response = httpclient.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) {
// add code here to display the contents from sr.ReadToEnd() to see the response from ther server
}
} catch (WebException ex) {
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ex.Response.GetResponseStream())) {
// add code here to display the contents from sr.ReadToEnd() to see the response from ther server
// add code here to display e.Message to see a shorter error message
}
}
If you are still having problems, please post the detailed error message here so that I can assist you.
Best Regards,
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06-19-2014
12:08 PM
1 Kudo
Hello locherlav,
After reviewing your code, I see that you have commented the following line:
// sb.AppendLine("content-disposition: file; name=""data"" filename=""emailkust.csv""");
With this line commented out, there is a very important piece of information missing from the multipart request that must be included. You will need to uncomment this line and make sure that the correct filename is used here. Once you have accomplished this, you should see success.
If you are still seeing an error, please reply to this post with the Error Body contained in the error message.
Best Regards,
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06-19-2014
12:05 PM
Hi Eric,
This issue is a known problem that we have identified within the Constant Contact for Salesforce application. As you stated it is correctly uploading the contacts, but it is reporting errors within the application. We have submitted a request to investigate and correct the issue to our team which maintains the application and we should hopefully have an update to correct this soon.
Best Regards,
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