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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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https://api.intercom.io/

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

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

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Segment

A segment is a group of your contacts defined by the rules that you set.

typestring

The type of object.

Value"segment"
Example: "segment"
idstring

The unique identifier representing the segment.

Example: "56203d253cba154d39010062"
namestring

The name of the segment.

Example: "Active"
created_atinteger

The time the segment was created.

Example: 1394621988
updated_atinteger

The time the segment was updated.

Example: 1394622004
person_typestring

Type of the contact: contact (lead) or user.

Enum"contact""user"
Example: "contact"
countinteger or null

The number of items in the user segment. It's returned when include_count=true is included in the request.

Example: 3
{
  "type": "segment",
  "id": "56203d253cba154d39010062",
  "name": "Active",
  "created_at": 1394621988,
  "updated_at": 1394622004,
  "person_type": "contact",
  "count": 3
}

List attached segments for contact

Request

You can fetch a list of segments that are associated to a contact.

Security
bearerAuth
Path
contact_idstringrequired

The unique identifier for the contact which is given by Intercom

Example: 63a07ddf05a32042dffac965
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/contacts/63a07ddf05a32042dffac965/segments \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8'

Responses

successful

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

The type of the object

Value"list"
Example: "list"
dataArray of objects(Segment)

Segment objects associated with the contact.

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

List all segments

Request

You can fetch a list of all segments.

Security
bearerAuth
Query
include_countboolean

It includes the count of contacts that belong to each segment.

Example: include_count=true
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/segments?include_count=true' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8'

Responses

Successful response

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

The type of the object

Value"segment.list"
Example: "segment.list"
segmentsArray of objects(Segment)

A list of Segment objects

pagesobject

A pagination object, which may be empty, indicating no further pages to fetch.

Response
application/json
{
  "type": "segment.list",
  "segments": [
    { … },
    { … }
  ]
}

Retrieve a segment

Request

You can fetch the details of a single segment.

Security
bearerAuth
Path
idstringrequired

The unique identified of a given segment.

Example: 123
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/segments/123 \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>' \
  -H 'Intercom-Version: 2.8'

Responses

Successful response

Bodyapplication/json
typestring

The type of object.

Value"segment"
Example: "segment"
idstring

The unique identifier representing the segment.

Example: "56203d253cba154d39010062"
namestring

The name of the segment.

Example: "Active"
created_atinteger

The time the segment was created.

Example: 1394621988
updated_atinteger

The time the segment was updated.

Example: 1394622004
person_typestring

Type of the contact: contact (lead) or user.

Enum"contact""user"
Example: "contact"
countinteger or null

The number of items in the user segment. It's returned when include_count=true is included in the request.

Example: 3
Response
application/json
{
  "type": "segment",
  "id": "6657aa5d6abd01639cc9ea45",
  "name": "John segment",
  "created_at": 1717021277,
  "updated_at": 1717021277,
  "person_type": "user"
}

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