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Intercom API (2.8)

The intercom API reference.

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Overview
URL https://developers.intercom.com
License MIT
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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

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Articles

Everything about your Articles

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Companies

Everything about your Companies

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Contacts

Everything about your contacts

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Conversations

Everything about your Conversations

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Data Attributes

Everything about your Data Attributes

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Data Attribute

Data Attributes are metadata used to describe your contact, company and conversation models. These include standard and custom attributes. By using the data attributes endpoint, you can get the global list of attributes for your workspace, as well as create and archive custom attributes.

typestring

Value is data_attribute.

Value"data_attribute"
Example: "data_attribute"
idinteger

The unique identifier for the data attribute which is given by Intercom. Only available for custom attributes.

Example: 12878
modelstring

Value is contact for user/lead attributes and company for company attributes.

Enum"contact""company"
Example: "contact"
namestring

Name of the attribute.

Example: "paid_subscriber"
full_namestring

Full name of the attribute. Should match the name unless it's a nested attribute. We can split full_name on . to access nested user object values.

Example: "custom_attributes.paid_subscriber"
labelstring

Readable name of the attribute (i.e. name you see in the UI)

Example: "Paid Subscriber"
descriptionstring

Readable description of the attribute.

Example: "Whether the user is a paid subscriber."
data_typestring

The data type of the attribute.

Enum"string""integer""float""boolean""date"
Example: "boolean"
optionsArray of strings

List of predefined options for attribute value.

Example: ["true","false"]
api_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated through API

Example: true
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
ui_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated in the UI

Example: true
customboolean

Set to true if this is a CDA

Example: true
archivedboolean

Is this attribute archived. (Only applicable to CDAs)

Example: false
created_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was created as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
updated_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was last updated as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
admin_idstring

Teammate who created the attribute. Only applicable to CDAs

Example: "5712945"
{
  "type": "data_attribute",
  "id": 12878,
  "model": "contact",
  "name": "paid_subscriber",
  "full_name": "custom_attributes.paid_subscriber",
  "label": "Paid Subscriber",
  "description": "Whether the user is a paid subscriber.",
  "data_type": "boolean",
  "options": [
    "true",
    "false"
  ],
  "api_writable": true,
  "messenger_writable": false,
  "ui_writable": true,
  "custom": true,
  "archived": false,
  "created_at": 1671028894,
  "updated_at": 1671028894,
  "admin_id": "5712945"
}

List all data attributes

Request

You can fetch a list of all data attributes belonging to a workspace for contacts, companies or conversations.

Query
modelstring

Specify the data attribute model to return.

Enum"contact""company""conversation"
Example: model=company
include_archivedboolean

Include archived attributes in the list. By default we return only non archived data attributes.

Headers
Intercom-Versionstring(intercom_version)

Intercom API version.
By default, it's equal to the version set in the app package.

Default 2.8
Enum"1.0""1.1""1.2""1.3""1.4""2.0""2.1""2.2""2.3""2.4"
Example: 2.8
curl -i -X GET \
  'https://api.intercom.io/data_attributes?include_archived=true&model=contact' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8'

Responses

Successful response

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

The type of the object

Value"list"
Example: "list"
dataArray of objects(Data Attribute)

A list of data attributes

Response
application/json
{
  "type": "list",
  "data": [
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … },
    { … }
  ]
}

Create a data attribute

Request

You can create a data attributes for a contact or a company.

Headers
Intercom-Versionstring(intercom_version)

Intercom API version.
By default, it's equal to the version set in the app package.

Default 2.8
Enum"1.0""1.1""1.2""1.3""1.4""2.0""2.1""2.2""2.3""2.4"
Example: 2.8
Bodyapplication/json
namestringrequired

The name of the data attribute.

Example: "My Data Attribute"
modelstringrequired

The model that the data attribute belongs to.

Enum"contact""company"
Example: "contact"
data_typestringrequired

The type of data stored for this attribute.

Enum"string""integer""float""boolean""datetime""date"
Example: "string"
descriptionstring

The readable description you see in the UI for the attribute.

Example: "My Data Attribute Description"
optionsArray of strings

To create list attributes. Provide a set of hashes with value as the key of the options you want to make. data_type must be string.

Example: ["option1","option2"]
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
curl -i -X POST \
  https://api.intercom.io/data_attributes \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8' \
  -d '{
    "name": "Mithril Shirt",
    "model": "company",
    "data_type": "string"
  }'

Responses

Successful

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

Value is data_attribute.

Value"data_attribute"
Example: "data_attribute"
idinteger

The unique identifier for the data attribute which is given by Intercom. Only available for custom attributes.

Example: 12878
modelstring

Value is contact for user/lead attributes and company for company attributes.

Enum"contact""company"
Example: "contact"
namestring

Name of the attribute.

Example: "paid_subscriber"
full_namestring

Full name of the attribute. Should match the name unless it's a nested attribute. We can split full_name on . to access nested user object values.

Example: "custom_attributes.paid_subscriber"
labelstring

Readable name of the attribute (i.e. name you see in the UI)

Example: "Paid Subscriber"
descriptionstring

Readable description of the attribute.

Example: "Whether the user is a paid subscriber."
data_typestring

The data type of the attribute.

Enum"string""integer""float""boolean""date"
Example: "boolean"
optionsArray of strings

List of predefined options for attribute value.

Example: ["true","false"]
api_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated through API

Example: true
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
ui_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated in the UI

Example: true
customboolean

Set to true if this is a CDA

Example: true
archivedboolean

Is this attribute archived. (Only applicable to CDAs)

Example: false
created_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was created as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
updated_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was last updated as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
admin_idstring

Teammate who created the attribute. Only applicable to CDAs

Example: "5712945"
Response
application/json
{
  "id": 21,
  "type": "data_attribute",
  "name": "Mithril Shirt",
  "full_name": "custom_attributes.Mithril Shirt",
  "label": "Mithril Shirt",
  "data_type": "string",
  "api_writable": true,
  "ui_writable": false,
  "messenger_writable": true,
  "custom": true,
  "archived": false,
  "admin_id": "991267031",
  "created_at": 1717021242,
  "updated_at": 1717021242,
  "model": "company"
}

Update a data attribute

Request

You can update a data attribute.

🚧 Updating the data type is not possible

It is currently a dangerous action to execute changing a data attribute's type via the API. You will need to update the type via the UI instead.

Path
idintegerrequired

The data attribute id

Example: 1
Headers
Intercom-Versionstring(intercom_version)

Intercom API version.
By default, it's equal to the version set in the app package.

Default 2.8
Enum"1.0""1.1""1.2""1.3""1.4""2.0""2.1""2.2""2.3""2.4"
Example: 2.8
Bodyapplication/json
archivedboolean

Whether the attribute is to be archived or not.

Example: false
descriptionstring

The readable description you see in the UI for the attribute.

Example: "My Data Attribute Description"
optionsArray of strings

To create list attributes. Provide a set of hashes with value as the key of the options you want to make. data_type must be string.

Example: ["option1","option2"]
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
curl -i -X PUT \
  'https://api.intercom.io/data_attributes/{id}' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8' \
  -d '{
    "description": "Just a plain old ring",
    "options": [
      {
        "value": "1-10"
      },
      {
        "value": "11-20"
      }
    ],
    "archived": false
  }'

Responses

Successful

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

Value is data_attribute.

Value"data_attribute"
Example: "data_attribute"
idinteger

The unique identifier for the data attribute which is given by Intercom. Only available for custom attributes.

Example: 12878
modelstring

Value is contact for user/lead attributes and company for company attributes.

Enum"contact""company"
Example: "contact"
namestring

Name of the attribute.

Example: "paid_subscriber"
full_namestring

Full name of the attribute. Should match the name unless it's a nested attribute. We can split full_name on . to access nested user object values.

Example: "custom_attributes.paid_subscriber"
labelstring

Readable name of the attribute (i.e. name you see in the UI)

Example: "Paid Subscriber"
descriptionstring

Readable description of the attribute.

Example: "Whether the user is a paid subscriber."
data_typestring

The data type of the attribute.

Enum"string""integer""float""boolean""date"
Example: "boolean"
optionsArray of strings

List of predefined options for attribute value.

Example: ["true","false"]
api_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated through API

Example: true
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
ui_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated in the UI

Example: true
customboolean

Set to true if this is a CDA

Example: true
archivedboolean

Is this attribute archived. (Only applicable to CDAs)

Example: false
created_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was created as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
updated_atinteger(date-time)

The time the attribute was last updated as a UTC Unix timestamp

Example: 1671028894
admin_idstring

Teammate who created the attribute. Only applicable to CDAs

Example: "5712945"
Response
application/json
{
  "id": 28,
  "type": "data_attribute",
  "name": "The One Ring",
  "full_name": "custom_attributes.The One Ring",
  "label": "The One Ring",
  "description": "Just a plain old ring",
  "data_type": "string",
  "options": [
    "1-10",
    "11-20"
  ],
  "api_writable": true,
  "ui_writable": false,
  "messenger_writable": true,
  "custom": true,
  "archived": false,
  "admin_id": "991267038",
  "created_at": 1717021245,
  "updated_at": 1717021245,
  "model": "company"
}

Data Events

Everything about your Data Events

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Data Export

Everything about your Data Exports

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Help Center

Everything about your Help Center

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Messages

Everything about your messages

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News

Everything about your News

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Notes

Everything about your Notes

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Segments

Everything about your Segments

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Subscription Types

Everything about subscription types

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Switch

Everything about Switch

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Tags

Everything about tags

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Teams

Everything about your Teams

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Visitors

Everything about your Visitors

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Models