deleteList.md

Delete List

This guide will walk you through steps of removing contacts list from your account using the Bash library.

Required Access Level: ModifyContacts

Find out more by checking our API's documentation: https://elasticemail.com/developers/api-documentation/rest-api#operation/listsByNameDelete

What's a list?

When using Elastic Email, you send emails to contacts – recipients who receive your emails. Contacts can be grouped by created segments or lists. Segments add contacts automatically when specfied conditions are met, and contacts on lists are managed manually.

Preparation

It's a Bash script so it's a program to be run by Unix shell. On linux (eg. Ubuntu) there's no need to install anything additional.

Create a new file eg. script.sh

Download the lib from ElasticEmail repository https://github.com/ElasticEmail/elasticemail-bash and make sure the script has executable rights

$ chmod u+x ElasticEmail

Let's dig into the code

Put the below code to your file.

In the first line indicate that it's a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

Variable for host value:

host=https://api.elasticemail.com

Use your API key (remember to check a required access level):

apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

and create header variables for api key:

apiKeyHeaderName=X-ElasticEmail-ApiKey
apiKeyHeader=$apiKeyHeaderName:$apiKey

Define a method that will be used:

apiMethod=listsByNameDelete

The only thing you need to specify is a list name

listName="test name 3[]??[]Special_characters!@#$%^&*()222"

But in case when your name contains some special URL characters you need to properly encode it first. For example you can use Bash engine and encodeURIComponent from JavaScript language for doing that or use other way of your preference:

listNameEncoded=$(node -p "encodeURIComponent('$listName')") # output: "%5B%5D%3F%3F%5B%5DSpecial_characters%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26%2A%28%29222%0A"

And finally, you can use the lib to make an api call:

./ElasticEmail --host $host $apiMethod name="$listNameEncoded" $apiKeyHeader

The whole code to copy and paste:

host=https://api.elasticemail.com

apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

apiKeyHeaderName=X-ElasticEmail-ApiKey
apiKeyHeader=$apiKeyHeaderName:$apiKey

apiMethod=listsByNameDelete

listName="test name 3[]??[]Special_characters!@#$%^&*()222"

listNameEncoded=$(node -p "encodeURIComponent('$listName')") # output: "%5B%5D%3F%3F%5B%5DSpecial_characters%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26%2A%28%29222%0A"

./ElasticEmail --host $host $apiMethod name="$listNameEncoded" $apiKeyHeader

Run the code

bash script.sh