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The article model

Example Article Object 

{
  "id": 1,
  "type": "article",
  "workspace_id": "abcdef",
  "title": "Default language title",
  "description": "Default language description",
  "body": "Default language body in html",
  "author_id": 1,
  "state": "published",
  "created_at": 123456,
  "updated_at": 123456,
  "url": "http://intercom.test/help/en/articles/3-default-language",
  "parent_id": 1,
  "parent_type": "collection",
  "default_locale": "en",
  "translated_content": {
    "type": "article_translated_content",
    "fr": {
      "type": "article_content",
      "title": "French title",
      "description": "French description",
      "body": "French body in html",
      "author_id": 1,
        "state": "published",
        "created_at": 7891011,
        "updated_at": 7891011,
        "url": "http://intercom.test/help/fr/articles/3-french-multilingual"
    }
  },
  "statistics": {
      "type": "article_statistics",
      "views": 10,
      "conversations": 0,
      "reactions": 8,
      "happy_reaction_percentage": 38,
      "neutral_reaction_percentage": 38,
      "sad_reaction_percentage": 25
  }
}
Example HTML Body

<h1 class="intercom-align-left">Header 1</h1>
<h2 class="intercom-align-left">Header 2</h2>
<h2 class="intercom-align-center">Centered Header</h2>
<p class="intercom-align-left">
   <a href="https://intercom.com" target="_blank">Link</a>
</p>
<ul>
   <li>Single-level List</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>'Pre' Code</code></pre>
<p class="intercom-align-left"><code>Inline code</code></p>
<p class="intercom-align-left"><b>Bold text</b></p>
<p class="intercom-align-left"><i>Italic text</i></p>
<p class="intercom-align-center">Centered text</p>
<p class="intercom-align-left">Image without link:</p>
<div class="intercom-container intercom-align-left">
   <img
      src="https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/204050460/7a140f62f8e715d1d6cf246d/Image.jpg"
      />
</div>
<p class="intercom-align-left">Image with link:</p>
<div class="intercom-container intercom-align-left">
   <a target="_blank" href="https://intercom.com"
      ><img
      src="https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/204049719/b41c9a81c13b8a91023df1e7/Image.jpg"
      /></a>
</div>
<p class="intercom-align-left">Image with link and centered:</p>
<div class="intercom-container intercom-align-center">
   <a target="_blank" href="https://intercom.com"
      ><img
      src="https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/204050579/2e85d79a0d9e0c47b088f50c/Image.jpg"
      /></a>
</div>
<div class="intercom-container intercom-align-left">
   <a class="intercom-h2b-button" target="_blank" href="https://intercom.com"
      >Button</a
      >
</div>
<div class="intercom-container intercom-align-center">
   <a class="intercom-h2b-button" target="_blank" href="https://intercom.com"
      >Centered Button</a
      >
</div>
<p class="intercom-align-left">Video Embed with iFrame:</p>
<div class="intercom-h2b-video">
   <iframe
      src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jqO8AQHj7Fw?rel=0"
      frameborder="0"
      webkitallowfullscreen
      mozallowfullscreen
      allowfullscreen
      ></iframe>
</div>
<p class="intercom-align-left"></p>

The Articles API is a central place to gather all information and take actions on your articles. Articles can live within collections and sections, or alternatively they can stand alone.

For collections and sections you should refer to the Help Center endpoint.

Article Object

Key

Type

Description

type

String

The type of object - article.

id

String

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

workspace_id

String

The id of the workspace which the article belongs to.

title

String

The title of the article.
For multilingual articles, this will be the title of the default language’s content.

description

String

The description of the article.
For multilingual articles, this will be the description of the default language’s content.

body

String

The body of the article in HTML.
For multilingual articles, this will be the body of the default language’s content.
See more on what we accept in the Supported HTML table below.

author_id

String

The id of the author of the article.
For multilingual articles, this will be the id of the author of the default language’s content. Must be a teammate on the help center’s workspace.

state

String

Whether the article is published or is a draft.
For multilingual articles, this will be the state of the default language’s content.

created_at

Timestamp

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

updated_at

Timestamp

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

url

String

The URL of the article.
For multilingual articles, this will be the URL of the default language’s content.

parent_id

String

The id of the article’s parent collection or section. An article without this field stands alone.

parent_type

String

The type of parent, which can either be a collection or section.

default_locale

String

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

translated_content

Object

An Article Translated Content Object for multilingual articles. This field is only returned for multilingual help centers.

Article Translated Content Object

Key

Type

Writeable?

Description

type

String

No

The type of object - article_translated_content.

<locale>

ar, bg, bs, ca, cs, da, de, 'de-form', el, en, es, et, fi, fr, he, hr, hu, id, it, ja, ko, lt, lv, mn, nb, nl, pl, 'pt-BR', pt, ro, ru, sl, sr, sv, tr, vi, 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW'

Object

Yes

An Article Content Object for each supported locale of the multilingual help center.
The default locale's content and information will be contained in the initial Article Object.
If there's no content for a locale, the value will be nil.

Article Content Object

Key

Type

Writeable?

Description

type

String

No

The type of object - article_content.

title

String

Yes

The title of the article.

description

String

Yes

The description of the article.

body

String

Yes

The body of the article in HTML.

author

String

Yes

The id of the author of the article.

state

String

Yes

Whether the article is published or is a draft.

created_at

Timestamp

No

The time when the article was created.

updated_at

Timestamp

No

The time when the article was last updated.

url

String

No

The URL of the article.

Article Statistics Object

Key

Type

Writeable?

Description

type

String

No

The type of object - article_statistics.

views

Integer

No

The number of total views the article has received.

conversations

Integer

No

The number of conversations started from the article.

reactions

Integer

No

The number of total reactions the article has received.

happy_reaction_percentage

Integer

No

The percentage of happy reactions the article has received against other types of reaction.

neutral_reaction_percentage

Integer

No

The percentage of neutral reactions the article has received against other types of reaction.

sad_reaction_percentage

Integer

No

The percentage of sad reactions the article has received against other types of reaction.

Supported HTML

The table below defines the subset of HTML accepted when creating or updating an Article. Over time we may add support for new HTML elements and attributes, since this will not constitute a breaking change, we advise any client code to support the full HTML specification when reading article content.

Removing element support, or otherwise changing the API in a way that causes previously supported HTML to become unsupported will be considered a breaking change.

Tag

What does it do?

Additional Details

<p>

Paragraph

All text must be placed within paragraph tags.

<br>

Line break

Supported in-line.

<hr>

Horizontal rule

NA

<h1> <h2>

Heading

Only these two header tags are supported. All others will be replaced with <h2>.

<a>

Link

An image can be placed in-between the link tags.

<img>

Image

Images will be uploaded to Intercom and we'll use an Intercom link to display these.
If these fail to upload then we'll hard fail and return 400 Bad Request.

<ul> <ol> <li>

List

Lists must contain at least one non-empty <li> element.

<li> elements can contain plain text, or any other supported HTML tags, except <table>.

If these criteria aren't met, then the article will hard fail and return 400 Bad request.

<table>

Table

Needs to have at least one row and one cell.
Can contain any other supported HTML tags, except another <table> within.
If these criteria aren't met then it will hard fail and return 400 Bad request.

<iframe>

Video

src must be for a supported video embed link.
Only works for Youtube, Wistia, Vimeo, Loom, Vidyard or StreamIO.

<pre> <code>

Pre-formatted code

<b> <strong>

Bold

<i> <em>

Italic

Supported CSS

Class

What does it do?

Where does it work?

intercom-align-center

Center Alignment

On tag level: Headers, Paragraphs.
On wrapping div: Images, Buttons.

intercom-h2b-button

Button

On tag level: Links

Unsupported HTML

Tag

What does it do?

What do we do?

<dl>

Definition List

Hard fail - 400 Bad Request

<ul> or <ol>

Nested lists

Hard fail - 400 Bad Request

<iframe>

iFrame
Unsupported video

Hard fail - 400 Bad Request

<div> <span>

Content division

Replace with <p>

<h3> to <h6>

Heading

Replace with <h2>

<form>

Form

Remove from content

<input> <textarea>

Input

Remove from content

<script>

Javascript Script

Remove from content

<head> <html> <footer> etc.

All other tags

Remove from content
Internals replaced with <p>