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MailChimp API

29-minute Development Tools Course

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About this Course

In this course, you will learn how APIs work and how to customize them using the popular MailChimp API.

What you'll learn

  • Familiarize user with what the MailChimp API does
  • Learn general layout of API and documentation
  • Retrieving list information
  • Adding new members to a list

MailChimp API

The MailChimp API offers a way to interact with the functions of MailChimp without logging in to the interface. Typically, the API is used by programmers to connect MailChimp to another service or to automate a specific workflow, like syncing an external database with a MailChimp list, building a campaign using the same template just by having supply the content, or adding data about products your subscribers purchased with our e-commerce methods.

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Teacher

  • Nate Ranson

    Nate works on MailChimp's Integrations team. He writes how-to documentation and helps our customers better use MailChimp's API.

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