How to pass an array as a parameter in url in listSubscribe() method

[Zakhar]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to use Mailchimp api. I haven't done any coding yet and
just trying to make some simple requests using Fiddler.
I know how to subscribe an email to a list, I simply send this GET
request: "http://us2.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?
output=json&method=listSubscribe&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&id=XXXXXXXX&email_address=mye...@email.com&double_optin=false"
that works just fine, but at the same time leaves FNAME and LNAME
empty.
I guess I need to pass them in merge_vars parameter as an array, but I
haven't got a clue how I can do it. Besides the method documentation
doesn't even say what parameters names should be (fname? lname?).

Can anyone help with it?
thanks,
Zakhar

[jesse]

Read this:

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/gettingstarted/serialized_http_arrays.php

And then examples 2 & 3 here:

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/how-to/#ex2

And your list's merge tags:

http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/where-can-i-find-my-lists-merge-tags


jesse

On Sep 15, 10:31 am, Zakhar <zakhar.zu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm trying to use Mailchimp api. I haven't done any coding yet and
> just trying to make some simple requests using Fiddler.
> I know how to subscribe an email to a list, I simply send this GET
> request:  "http://us2.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?

> output=json&method=listSubscribe&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&id=XXXXXXXX&email_address=myem...@email.com&double_optin=false"

[Zakhar]

Ok, thanks jasse,
I've done it for listSubscribe without any problems, but now I have
another issue.
I'm trying to use listBatchSubscribe and the array should be different
there. I'm doing it as shown on this page:
http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/gettingstarted/serialized_http_arrays.php
sending "http://us2.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?
output=json&method=listBatchSubscribe&apikey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&id=XXXXXXXXX&double_optin=false&update_existing=true&batch[0]
[email]=ma...@email.com&batch[0][email_type]=html&batch[1]
[email]=ema...@email.com&batch[1][email_type]=html" but getting
{"add_count":0,"update_count":0,"error_count":2,"errors":[{"code":
502,"message":"Invalid Email Address: ","email":""},{"code":
502,"message":"Invalid Email Address: ","email":""}]} in response.

What am I doing wrong?
thanks,
Zakhar

[jesse]

Either using invalid email addresses (like those) or not urlencoding
your values. If they are being returned blank like that, probably the
latter.


jesse

[Zakhar]

Yes, you are right, I didn't encode emails but I don't encode an email in listSubscribe() as well and it works fine.

Anyway, I tried to encode them now, basically replacing @ with %40 but it doesn't work either, returning the same response.

I read that it is more preferable to send json instead of what I'm doing now. Where can I read how to do it? I mean I know what json is, I'm interested in some examples as I've never sent json in request before.

Thanks a lot,
Zakhar

[jesse]

The fact that the listSubscribe call worked without urlencoding the
values is just dumb luck. I see the problem with the
listBatchSubscribe - the parameter is "EMAIL", not "email".

If you want, you can read the JSON part of the Input Parameters
section:

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/rtfm/

Then the 2nd example for listSubscribe shows doing that:

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/rtfm/listsubscribe.func.php



jesse

[Zakhar]

You are right about capitals, thanks a lot for your time,

Zakhar