Mailshake Node.js Library

This is the official Node.js library for the Mailshake API. View the docs here.

Installation

npm install mailshake-node

Configuration and use

Requiring the mailshake-node module takes your API key as an argument. Every operation returns a Promise. Errors from the calling API will populate the code property of the error contained by the operation's Promise.

const mailshake = require('mailshake-node')('my-api-key');

return mailshake.campaigns
  .list({
    search: 'Venkman',
  })
  .then((result) => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.message}`);
  });

Don't forget to change my-api-key to your own key.

OAuth support

mailshake-node has hooks to support most any OAuth library. You can either customize the request with customizeRequest or outright replace how the request is made with overrideCreateRequest:

const mailshake = require('mailshake-node')({
  customizeRequest(options) => {
    // options.headers.authorization = [...oauth header...]
    return options;
  }),

  // or

  overrideCreateRequest(options, callbackFn) => {
    return https(options, callbackFn);
  }),
});

Operations

See our official API docs for details.

• me
• campaigns.list
• campaigns.get
• campaigns.pause
• campaigns.unpause
• campaigns.export
• campaigns.exportStatus
• campaigns.create
• leads.list
• leads.get
• leads.close
• leads.create
• leads.ignore
• leads.reopen
• recipients.add
• recipients.addStatus
• recipients.list
• recipients.get
• recipients.pause
• recipients.unpause
• recipients.unsubscribe
• team.list-members
• push.create
• push.delete
• activity.clicks
• activity.createdLeads
• activity.leadStatusChanges
• activity.opens
• activity.replies
• activity.sent
• activity.leadAssignments
• senders.list

Paging

When a request accepts paging parameters, a call to get the next page is conveniently attached to your result:

mailshake.campaigns.list()
  .then((result) => {
    console.log(`Page 1: ${JSON.stringify(result, null, 2)}`);
    // Just call `next` to get the next page of data
    return result.next();
  })
  .then((result) => {
    console.log(`Page 2: ${JSON.stringify(result, null, 2)}`);
  });

Push handling

The Mailshake API lets you subscribe to real-time pushes so you can react in your app. To do this you tell Mailshake where to make HTTPS requests, your web server handles them, and sends back a 200 status. See our docs on this for more details.

The easiest way to get started requires a few things:

• use express as your web server
• specify your external base URL
• specify a path to handle Mailshake pushes
• specify a secret to secure your web hook

const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const mailshake = require('mailshake-node')('my-api-key');
const PushHandler = require('mailshake-node').PushHandler;

// Initialize your express app, making sure to include bodyParser
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json({}));

// Set up how your site is being hosted
const handler = new PushHandler(mailshake, {
  baseUrl: 'https://mailshake-test.ngrok.io',
  rootPath: 'pushes',
  secret: 'my-secret'
});

// Listen when pushes are received and take action
handler.on('push', push => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(push, null, 2));
});

// Listen when there was some kind of error handling a push
handler.on('pushError', err => {
  console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.stack}`);
});

// Hook it up
handler.hookExpress(app);

// Start your server
const port = 80;
app.listen(port);
console.log(`Listening on http://127.0.0.1:${port}`);

Don't forget to change my-api-key to your own key.

Subscribing to pushes

Tell Mailshake what you want to listen for. This option will automatically format your subscription so that PushHandler can handle it:

handler
  .subscribe('Clicked', {
    // Filter options
  })
  .then((targetUrl) => {
    // Store targetUrl somewhere so you can unsubscribe later
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.stack}`);
  });

Unsubscribing pushes

When you're done, unsubscribe to stop receiving pushes:

handler
  .unsubscribe(targetUrl)
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.stack}`);
  });

Other details

Mailshake will send your server a request like this:

{
  "resource_url": "https://api.mailshake.com/2017-04-01/..."
}

Use the resolvePush operation to fetch the full data behind the push:

const resolvePush = require('mailshake-node').resolvePush;

resolvePush(mailshake, {
  // The object Mailshake sent your server
})
  .then((result) => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.message}`);
  });

A more hands-on approach when using express

In case you can't or don't want to use our more complete PushHandler solution, a pushHandlerExpress function is exposed on this module that encapsulates fetching the push's details and communicating back to Mailshake about the receipt being successful or not:

const pushHandlerExpress = require('mailshake-node').pushHandlerExpress;

// NOTE: Put this code inside the handler for your endpoint:
pushHandlerExpress(mailshake, receivedPush, response)
  .then((result) => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.message}`);
  });

Subscribing to pushes

If you're not using our main handler, you can subscribe to pushes like this:

return mailshake.push
  .create({
    targetUrl: '[a unique url for this push to store for later so you can unsubscribe]',
    event: 'Clicked',
    filter: {
      // Filter options
    },
  })
  .then((result) => {
    // Nothing really to do here
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.message}`);
  });

Unsubscribe your subscriptions like this:

return mailshake.push
  .delete({
    targetUrl: '[your unique url for the push to unsubscribe]',
  })
  .then((result) => {
    // Nothing really to do here
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(`${err.code}: ${err.message}`);
  });

Contributions

If you have improvements, please create a pull request for our consideration.

Testing

Our test suites for this module aren't yet part of the source. At the moment only one test is wired up here as a sanity check and to test connectivity. To use it create a local CONFIG.json file in the root directory of this repo like this:

{
  "apiKey": "my-api-key"
}

Update it with your API key and then run npm test.