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Contact Tracking Bounces Report

Use this endpoint to retrieve a report of email campaigns that bounced when sent to a specific contact.

Methods:

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GET

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Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a list of all link clicks for the campaign specified by the campaignId path parameter (REQUIRED). Use the created_since query parameter to retrieve only the clicks that occurred on or after the date/time specified. This is useful for syncing tracking data across applications.

NOTE: Tracking information is only available for SENT email campaigns.

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Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a list of unsubscribe activities for the contact specified by the contactId path parameter (REQUIRED). Use the created_since query parameter to retrieve only the unsubscribes that occurred on or after the date/time specified. This is useful for syncing tracking data across applications.

DescriptionTOP

Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a summary report of all activities for the contact specified by the contactId path parameter (REQUIRED).

DescriptionTOP

Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a list of all email campaign click activities for the contacts specified by the contactId path parameter (REQUIRED). Use the created_since query parameter to retrieve only activity that occurred on or after the date/time specified. This is useful for syncing tracking data across applications.

DescriptionTOP

Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a report of all email campaigns that were sent to the contact specified by the contactId path parameter (REQUIRED). Use the created_since query parameter to retrieve only the activity that occurred on or after the date/time specified. This is useful for sync'ing tracking data across applications.

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Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a summary report of the contact's (specified using the contactID path parameter) activities for each email campaign that has been sent to them, grouped by individual campaign. Unsubscribe activities are not included in this report. 

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Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a report showing all email campaigns that bounced when sent to the contact specified by the contactId path parameter.

Bounce reasons

See this FAQ that details the types of bounces we track. 

DescriptionTOP

Privileges required: contacts:read

Retrieves a report of a contact's (specified by the contactId path parameter) activities for all email campaigns that have been sent to them. Activities are listed in order of the newest to the oldest.

GET: https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/contacts/{contactId}/tracking/bounces

Test API

name

type

default

description

api_key

query

REQUIRED; The API key for the application

contactId

path

Specifies the contact to retrieve bounce events for

created_since

query

Use to retrieve only bounces that occurred on or after the date/time specified in ISO-8601 format.

limit

query

500

Specifies the number of results displayed per page of output, from 1 - 500, default = 500. See Paginated Output for more information on using limit.

Response CodesTOP

code

description

200

Request was successful

401

Authentication failure

404

The specified contactId was not found

406

Unsupported accept header value, must be application/json

500

Internal server error occurred

StructureTOP

property

type(max length)

description

Example ResponseTOP

{
    "meta": {
         "pagination": {
			"next_link": "/v2/contacts/1/tracking/bounces?next=c3RhcnRBdD0zJmxpbWl0PTI"
			        }
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "activity_type": "EMAIL_BOUNCE",
            "campaign_id": "1100394165287",
            "contact_id": "1",
            "email_address": "abc@example.com",
            "bounce_code": "B",
            "bounce_description": "Non-existent address",
            "bounce_message": "",
            "bounce_date": "2012-12-06T18:06:15.000Z"
        },
        {
            "activity_type": "EMAIL_BOUNCE",
            "campaign_id": "1100394165290",
            "contact_id": "1",
            "email_address": "abc@example.com",
            "bounce_code": "B",
            "bounce_description": "Non-existent address",
            "bounce_message": "",
            "bounce_date": "2012-12-06T13:06:39.990Z"
        }
    ]
}