One of the reasons our customers choose SendGrid is that it was created by developers for developers. API integration with SendGrid is easy and fast. In this blog post, we’ll summarize some of the key components from the SendGrid documentation and cover what API integration looks like, along with specific steps you will need to take to get your integration to work.
What is API Integration?
If you are a developer, you probably are already familiar with API integration. Email API integration allows you to connect your email service provider to your existing marketing, sales, or CRM tools. This allows your systems to communicate with each other in order to leverage your technology.
SendGrid provides a series of flexible web and SMTP APIs for easy email API integration for both transactional email and marketing email including:
How does API Integration Work?
Your API integration follows the process listed below. For more detailed information, you can visit the documentation page for additional instructions:
Step 1: Build your API call
Your API call must have the following components:
Step 2: Send an email using the SendGrid API:
Sending email using the SendGrid API is simple. After you have built your API call, simply follow these steps to send your email:
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
--header 'authorization: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY>>' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--data '{"personalizations":[{"to":[{"email":"john.doe@example.com","name":"John Doe"}],"subject":"Hello, World!"}],"content": [{"type": "text/plain", "value": "Heya!"}],"from":{"email":"sam.smith@example.com","name":"Sam Smith"},"reply_to":{"email":"sam.smith@example.com","name":"Sam Smith"}}'
For more information, including API response messages, visit SendGrid’s Knowledge Center (https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/api-getting-started/#build-your-api-call) to learn more.
To see an example of API integration in action, take a look at our NudgeSpot case study to see how they took advantage of API integration to streamline their communications (https://handysends.com/casestudy/nudgespot-sendgrid/).
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