Mailchimp Transactional — Python

The official Python client library for the Mailchimp Transactional API (v1)

Requirements.

Python 2.7 and 3.4+

Installation & Usage

pip install

If the python package is hosted on GitHub, you can install directly from GitHub

pip install git+https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-transactional-python.git

(you may need to run pip with root permission: sudo pip install git+https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-transactional-python.git)

Then import the package:

import mailchimp_transactional

Setuptools

Install via Setuptools.

python setup.py install --user

(or sudo python setup.py install to install the package for all users)

Then import the package:

import mailchimp_transactional

Quick Start

Please follow the installation procedure and then run the following:

Quick Start

import mailchimp_transactional as MailchimpTransactional
from mailchimp_transactional.api_client import ApiClientError

try:
  mailchimp = MailchimpTransactional.Client('YOUR_API_KEY')
  response = mailchimp.users.ping()
  print('API called successfully: {}'.format(response))
except ApiClientError as error:
  print('An exception occurred: {}'.format(error.text))

Sending Requests

All requests are sent via POST and accept a single argument as the request body parameter.

mailchimp.templates.publish({ name: 'My Template' });

Output Formats

Optionally, you can set the default response format for all requests to one of the following:

• json (default)
• xml
• php
• yaml

mailchimp.set_default_output_format('xml');

You can also set the response format for a single request by passing in a special outputFormat param to the request body.

mailchimp.senders.list({ outputFormat: 'php' });

PRs and Issues

This repo is autogenerated from https://github.com/mailchimp/mailchimp-client-lib-codegen -- please submit PRs or issues there!

API Endpoints

All URIs are relative to https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0

Additional Libraries

Mailchimp Transactional libraries are available in the following languages: