Retrieve Member by IP Address

[Andrew Wise]

Hey all, I'm trying to customize my site based on a user's DB
information.

They come to our site, and signup for our Mailchimp newsletter, and at
that time we record their IP address.

Now, when they come back to our site, we want to give them a welcome
message, ie "Welcome back John Doe, your email is jo...@google.com and
your favorite color is blue.".

Problem is, the only way we can identify them is by their IP address.

So my question is, can I send the MailChimp API a user's MERGE tag
(that's not email) and have it return that user's profile?

I have tried, but the listMemberInfo() function only accepts email and
ID, so any help is appreciated.

[jesse]

No, that's not possible. It sounds like what you should look into is
maintaining your users and their preferences in your own database and
then just pushing changes over to us for use in your campaigns. Even
if you had the users email or id tracked, say in a cookie, you
wouldn't want to have to hit out api every time you loaded a page on
which you wanted that data.


jesse

On Dec 14, 12:39 pm, Andrew Wise <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all, I'm trying to customize my site based on a user's DB
> information.
>
> They come to our site, and signup for our Mailchimp newsletter, and at
> that time we record their IP address.
>
> Now, when they come back to our site, we want to give them a welcome

> message, ie "Welcome back John Doe, your email is j...@google.com and

[Andrew Wise]

Jesse,

Thanks for the help, looks like that's what I'm going to do. Was
hoping to not have to setup two separate DBs just for this purpose,
but to avoid the extra processing everytime a visitor came to the site
this should be best overall.