Creating an export job

To create your export job, you need to send a POST request to the export endpoint https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data.

The only parameters you need to provide are the range of dates that you want exported.

Parameter	Required?	Description
created_at_after	Yes	The start date that you request data for. It must be formatted as a unix timestamp.
created_at_before	Yes	The end date that you request data for. It must be formatted as a unix timestamp.

🚧 Limit of one active job
You can only have one active job per workspace. You will receive a HTTP status code of 429 with the message Exceeded rate limit of 1 pending message data export jobs if you attempt to create a second concurrent job.

❗️ Updated_at not included
It should be noted that the timeframe only includes messages sent during the time period and not messages that were only updated during this period. For example, if a message was updated yesterday but sent two days ago, you would need to set the created_at_after date before the message was sent to include that in your retrieval job.

Date ranges are inclusive

Requesting data for 2018-06-01 until 2018-06-30 will get all data for those days including those specified - e.g. 2018-06-01 00:00:00 until 2018-06-30 23:59:99.

Example Request

cURL

curl https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data \\\n-X POST \\\n-H 'Authorization:Bearer <Your access token>' \\\n-H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '\n{\n  \"created_at_after\": 1527811200,\n  \"created_at_before\": 1530316800\n}'

Example Response

HTTP

HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n{\n  \"job_identifier\":\"v5xsp8c19ji0s82\",\n  \"status\":\"pending\",\n  \"download_expires_at\": \"\",\n  \"download_url\": \"\",\n}

Example Errors

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "created_at_after is greater than created_at_before"
      }
  ]
}

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "'created_at_before' is a required parameter"
      }
  ]
}

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
{
  "type": "error.list",
  "request_id": null,
  "errors": [
      {
        "code": "bad_request",
        "message": "bad 'random_param' parameter"
      }
  ]
}

Returns

See Export Job Model