Introducing: EmailLabsClient
On my latest project, the client is using EmailLabs to manage their mailing lists. To simplify interaction with their system, we’ve created EmailLabsClient, a small Ruby client for the EmailLabs API. The core of the program is the send_request method:
def self.send_request(request_type, activity)
xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :target => (input = '')
xml.instruct!
xml.DATASET do
xml.SITE_ID SITE_ID
yield xml
end
Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(ENDPOINT),
:type => request_type, :activity => activity,
:input => input)
end
Then you can make API requests like this:
def self.subscribe_user(mailing_list, email_address)
send_request('record', 'add') do |body|
body.MLID mailing_list
body.DATA email_address, :type => 'email'
end
end
If you find yourself needing to work with an EmailLabs mailing list, check it out. At the very least, you should get a decent idea of how to interact with their API. It’s up on GitHub, so if you add any functionality, send those patches our way.
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