User Privileges

The User Privileges endpoint returns all API-specific privileges for the user associated with the OAuth access token provided with the GET call. Use these privileges to optimize your application's user experience based on the functionality that a user can access.

Learn more about user roles and API privileges :

Design Considerations for User Roles - get specific recommendations and best practices to optimize the user experience based on privileges.
Learn how we've incorporated user roles in Constant Contact and our API .
Review user privileges required to access each endpoint .

Methods:

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GET

Description TOP

Privileges required: none, accessible to all users

A GET call to the user privileges endpoint returns a list of the API privileges for the user associated with the access_token provided.

name	type	description
GET: https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/account/user/privileges
Test API
api_key	query	REQUIRED; The API key for the application

Response Codes TOP

code	description
200	Request was successful
401	Authentication failure, either the API key or access token is invalid
403	The user is deactivated, or the account is derelict, and no privileges are available.
405	Unsupported method, only GET is supported by this endpoint
406	Unsupported accept header value, must be application/json
503	Internal server error occurred

Example Response TOP

[
    "campaign:send",
    "account:update",
    "campaign:list",
    "contacts:write",
    "contacts:signuptools:create",
    "contacts:lists:write",
    "contacts:lists:read",
    "campaign:create",
    "contacts:read",
    "campaign:read",
    "account:read",
    "campaign:activate",
    "campaign:write",
    "campaign:stop",
    "campaign:delete",
    "mylibrary:create",
    "mylibrary:delete",
    "mylibrary:read",
    "mylibrary:update"
]