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Intercom API (2.11)

The intercom API reference.

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Languages
Servers
The production API server

https://api.intercom.io/

The european API server

https://api.eu.intercom.io/

The australian API server

https://api.au.intercom.io/

Admins

Everything about your Admins

SchemasOperations

Articles

Everything about your Articles

SchemasOperations

Companies

Everything about your Companies

SchemasOperations

Contacts

Everything about your contacts

SchemasOperations

Conversations

Everything about your Conversations

SchemasOperations

Data Attributes

Everything about your Data Attributes

SchemasOperations

Data Events

Everything about your Data Events

SchemasOperations

Data Export

Everything about your Data Exports

SchemasOperations

Help Center

Everything about your Help Center

SchemasOperations

Messages

Everything about your messages

SchemasOperations
SchemasOperations
SchemasOperations

Segments

Everything about your Segments

SchemasOperations

Subscription Types

Everything about subscription types

SchemasOperations
Operations
SchemasOperations
SchemasOperations

Ticket Type Attributes

Everything about your ticket type attributes

Operations

Ticket Types

Everything about your ticket types

Operations

Tickets

Everything about your tickets

SchemasOperations

Visitors

Everything about your Visitors

Operations
Schemas

Assign Conversation Request

Payload of the request to assign a conversation

admin_idstring

The id of the admin who is adding the new participant.

Example: "12345"
customerIntercom User ID (object) or User ID (object) or Email (object)
One of:
{ "admin_id": "12345", "customer": { "intercom_user_id": "6329bd9ffe4e2e91dac76188", "customer": {} } }

Close Conversation Request

Payload of the request to close a conversation

message_typestringrequired
Value"close"
Example: "close"
typestringrequired
Value"admin"
Example: "admin"
admin_idstringrequired

The id of the admin who is performing the action.

Example: "12345"
bodystring

Optionally you can leave a message in the conversation to provide additional context to the user and other teammates.

Example: " This conversation is now closed!"
{ "message_type": "close", "type": "admin", "admin_id": "12345", "body": " This conversation is now closed!" }

Collections

This will return a list of Collections for the App.

typestringrequired

The type of the object - list.

Value"list"
Example: "list"
pagesobject(Cursor based pages)

Cursor-based pagination is a technique used in the Intercom API to navigate through large amounts of data. A "cursor" or pointer is used to keep track of the current position in the result set, allowing the API to return the data in small chunks or "pages" as needed.

total_countintegerrequired

A count of the total number of collections.

Example: 1
dataArray of objects(Collection)required

An array of collection objects

data[].​idstringrequired

The unique identifier for the collection which is given by Intercom.

Example: "6871119"
data[].​workspace_idstringrequired

The id of the workspace which the collection belongs to.

Example: "hfi1bx4l"
data[].​namestringrequired

The name of the collection. For multilingual collections, this will be the name of the default language's content.

Example: "Default language name"
data[].​descriptionstring or null

The description of the collection. For multilingual help centers, this will be the description of the collection for the default language.

Example: "Default language description"
data[].​created_atinteger(date-time)required

The time when the article was created (seconds). For multilingual articles, this will be the timestamp of creation of the default language's content.

Example: 1672928359
data[].​updated_atinteger(date-time)

The time when the article was last updated (seconds). For multilingual articles, this will be the timestamp of last update of the default language's content.

Example: 1672928610
data[].​urlstring or null

The URL of the collection. For multilingual help centers, this will be the URL of the collection for the default language.

Example: "http://intercom.test/help/collection/name"
data[].​iconstring or null

The icon of the collection.

Example: "book-bookmark"
data[].​orderintegerrequired

The order of the section in relation to others sections within a collection. Values go from 0 upwards. 0 is the default if there's no order.

Example: "1"
data[].​default_localestringrequired

The default locale of the help center. This field is only returned for multilingual help centers.

Example: "en"
data[].​translated_contentobject(Group Translated Content)

The Translated Content of an Group. The keys are the locale codes and the values are the translated content of the Group.

data[].​parent_idstring or null

The id of the parent collection. If null then it is the first level collection.

Example: "6871118"
data[].​help_center_idinteger or null

The id of the help center the collection is in.

Example: "123"
{ "type": "list", "pages": { "type": "pages", "page": 1, "next": {}, "per_page": 2, "total_pages": 13 }, "total_count": 1, "data": [ {} ] }