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Intercom API (2.9)

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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Companies

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Everything about your contacts

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Everything about your Conversations

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Everything about your Teams

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Create Contact Request Payload

Payload to create a contact

Any of:

Payload to create a contact

rolestring

The role of the contact.

external_idstring

A unique identifier for the contact which is given to Intercom

emailstringrequired

The contacts email

Example: "jdoe@example.com"
phonestring or null

The contacts phone

Example: "+353871234567"
namestring or null

The contacts name

Example: "John Doe"
avatarstring or null

An image URL containing the avatar of a contact

Example: "https://www.example.com/avatar_image.jpg"
signed_up_atinteger or null(date-time)

The time specified for when a contact signed up

Example: 1571672154
last_seen_atinteger or null(date-time)

The time when the contact was last seen (either where the Intercom Messenger was installed or when specified manually)

Example: 1571672154
owner_idinteger or null

The id of an admin that has been assigned account ownership of the contact

Example: 123
unsubscribed_from_emailsboolean or null

Whether the contact is unsubscribed from emails

Example: true
custom_attributesobject or null

The custom attributes which are set for the contact

{
  "role": "string",
  "external_id": "string",
  "email": "jdoe@example.com",
  "phone": "+353871234567",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "avatar": "https://www.example.com/avatar_image.jpg",
  "signed_up_at": 1571672154,
  "last_seen_at": 1571672154,
  "owner_id": 123,
  "unsubscribed_from_emails": true,
  "custom_attributes": {}
}

Create Conversation Request Payload

Conversations are how you can communicate with users in Intercom. They are created when a contact replies to an outbound message, or when one admin directly sends a message to a single contact.

fromobjectrequired
from.​typestringrequired

The role associated to the contact - user or lead.

Enum"lead""user""contact"
Example: "user"
from.​idstring(uuid)= 24 charactersrequired

The identifier for the contact which is given by Intercom.

Example: "536e564f316c83104c000020"
bodystringrequired

The content of the message. HTML is not supported.

Example: "Hello"
{
  "from": {
    "type": "user",
    "id": "536e564f316c83104c000020"
  },
  "body": "Hello"
}

Create Data Attribute Request

One of:
data_typeanyrequired
Value"options"
optionsArray of objectsrequired

Array of objects representing the options of the list, with value as the key and the option as the value. At least two options are required.

Example: [{"value":"1-10"},{"value":"11-50"}]
options[].​valuestring
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"
descriptionstring

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

Example: "My Data Attribute Description"
messenger_writableboolean

Can this attribute be updated by the Messenger

Example: false
{
  "data_type": "options",
  "options": [
    { … },
    { … }
  ],
  "name": "My Data Attribute",
  "model": "contact",
  "description": "My Data Attribute Description",
  "messenger_writable": false
}