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Create a Segment

API Overview

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The Segments API allows you to create and manage segments for your contacts. Segments are used to group contacts based on conditions you set. For example, you might create a segment for contacts who have opened a certain number of your emails, or for contacts who have not opened any of your emails in the last 30 days.

Operation overview

POST/v3/contactdb/segments

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com

This endpoint allows you to create a new segment.

Valid operators for create and update depend on the type of the field for which you are searching.

Dates

"eq", "ne", "lt" (before), "gt" (after)
- You may use MM/DD/YYYY for day granularity or an epoch for second granularity.
"empty", "not_empty"
"is within"
- You may use an ISO 8601 date format or the # of days.

Text

"contains"
"eq" (is/equals - matches the full field)
"ne" (is not/not equals - matches any field where the entire field is not the condition value)
"empty"
"not_empty"

Numbers

"eq" (is/equals)
"lt" (is less than)
"gt" (is greater than)
"empty"
"not_empty"

Email Clicks and Opens

"eq" (opened)
"ne" (not opened)

All field values must be a string.

Conditions using "eq" or "ne" for email clicks and opens should provide a "field" of either clicks.campaign_identifier or opens.campaign_identifier. The condition value should be a string containing the id of a completed campaign.

The conditions list may contain multiple conditions, joined by an "and" or "or" in the "and_or" field.

The first condition in the conditions list must have an empty "and_or", and subsequent conditions must all specify an "and_or".

Operation details

Authentication

API Key

Headers

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

Authorizationstringrequired

Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

on-behalf-ofstringOptional

The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.

Request body

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

namestringrequired

The name of this segment.

list_idintegerOptional

The list id from which to make this segment. Not including this ID will mean your segment is created from the main contactdb rather than a list.

conditionsarray[object]required

The conditions for a recipient to be included in this segment.

Show child properties for conditions

recipient_countnumberOptional

The count of recipients in this list. This is not included on creation of segments.

Responses

200400401

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

idnumber

The ID of the segment.

namestring

The name of this segment.

list_idinteger

The list id from which to make this segment. Not including this ID will mean your segment is created from the main contactdb rather than a list.

conditionsarray[object]

The conditions for a recipient to be included in this segment.

Show child properties for conditions

recipient_countnumber

The count of recipients in this list. This is not included on creation of segments.

The request was formatted incorrectly or missing required parameters.

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

errorsarray[object]

Show child properties for errors

idstring

When applicable, this property value will be an error ID.

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

errorsarray[object]

Show child properties for errors

idstring

When applicable, this property value will be an error ID.

Create a Segment

Node.js

Python

Java

PHP

Ruby

curl


_43const client = require('@sendgrid/client');
_43client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
_43
_43const data = {
_43  "name": "Last Name Miller",
_43  "list_id": 4,
_43  "conditions": [
_43    {
_43      "field": "last_name",
_43      "value": "Miller",
_43      "operator": "eq",
_43      "and_or": ""
_43    },
_43    {
_43      "field": "last_clicked",
_43      "value": "01/02/2015",
_43      "operator": "gt",
_43      "and_or": "and"
_43    },
_43    {
_43      "field": "clicks.campaign_identifier",
_43      "value": "513",
_43      "operator": "eq",
_43      "and_or": "or"
_43    }
_43  ],
_43  "recipient_count": 1234
_43};
_43
_43const request = {
_43  url: `/v3/contactdb/segments`,
_43  method: 'POST',
_43  body: data
_43}
_43
_43client.request(request)
_43  .then(([response, body]) => {
_43    console.log(response.statusCode);
_43    console.log(response.body);
_43  })
_43  .catch(error => {
_43    console.error(error);
_43  });