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Ah -- that is a step I overlooked. Using PUT to the campaign after it is created, you can add a list to it: https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/email-campaigns/email-campaign-resource.html?method=PUT   In the JSON body, you set the list ID "sent_to_contact_lists" : [ { "id" : "1" }] ... View more

You don't add a contact to a campaign, you add it to a list. Then you send the campaign to the list. ... View more

The v2 API has the capability to add emails to a list: https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/contacts-api/contacts-collection.html?method=POST   create a campaign: https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/email-campaigns/email-campaigns-collection.html?method=POST   schedule the campaign: https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/campaign-scheduling/campaign-schedule-collection.html?method=POST   and report on the results: https://developer.constantcontact.com/docs/campaign-tracking/summary-report.html   ...so you could do it all from the API.  ... View more

This is what I have been doing: - using the web interface, create a new list for the autoresponder, and set up the autoresponder to send to anyone added to the list. - using the API, add new users to the list with the ACTION_BY_VISITOR option. That causes the addition of the email to trigger the autoresponder. - using the API, query the contacts and filter to a short list by the list_id that is used for the autoresponder. - for recently added contacts in that list, query get-activities for each contact through the API. You will get the send, open, and click activities for all of the autoresponder emails even though those 'campaigns' are not otherwise available. Figure out which campaign_id belongs to which email in the series and build yourself a lookup table. - you can now report sends, opens, and clicks for each email in the autoresponder series.   It is a lot of queries and manipulation to get the results, but it is better than nothing... ... View more