Webhooks

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Creating and Consuming SparkPost Webhooks

Jan. 27, 2022 / By Darren Smith

SparkPost’s real-time event webhooks are an incredibly valuable tool for senders to have data automatically pushed to their systems. This can drive downstream automation such as updating mailing lists, triggering automated email journeys, or populating internal dashboards. While the same event data can be accessed via the SparkPost UI using Event Search, or programmatically by

Building a Robust Email “Event” Archival System

Nov. 7, 2018 / By Jeff Goldstein

Learn about how to put all the information from RESTful API queries and webhook deliveries into your backend systems for long-term archival.

How To Create A Basic Webhook Consumer With Azure Functions

Dec. 20, 2017 / By Nick Zimmerman

Nick Zimmerman recaps his recent talk from Live! 360 and walks us through how to create a basic webhook consumer using Azure Functions.

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Tracking Recipient Preferences with the User Agent Header in Elixir

Oct. 13, 2017 / By Ewan Dennis

Interested in parsing information in the user agent header with Elixir? You're in luck! Ewan Dennis walks you through grokking user agent data.

Email Events On Your Terms: Webhooks, Databases, AWS, and more!

Sep. 29, 2017 / By Dave Gray

How can Webhooks be easier and searching event data even greater? We tackle webhooks, databases, AWS, and more in this post about tracking email events.

Archiving Emails: A How-To Guide for Tracking Sent Mail

Sep. 20, 2017 / By Jeff Goldstein

Many senders need the ability to archive sent emails to refer back to later. Here’s a sample app one of our engineers built to assist in archiving emails.

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New Feature Announcement: Stored Templates by Subaccount

Sep. 6, 2017 / By Irina Doliov

Introducing one of the most requested enhancements by both our enterprise customers and developer community, stored templates by subaccount.

SparkPost API Transmission Endpoint Changes

Upcoming API Transmission Endpoint Changes

Aug. 30, 2017 / By Chris McFadden

We’re making some API Transmission Endpoint changes. Learn how the changes will improve performance and optimize end-to-end delivery latency.

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Email Event Data Made Easy with SparkPost Events API

Jul. 7, 2017 / By Steve Tuck

This practical hands-on tutorial demonstrates how to use SparkPost’s Events API to download detailed email event data for archiving or use in other systems.

Product Announcement: Webhooks by Subaccount and Multiple Bounce Domains

Jun. 2, 2017 / By Irina Doliov

Webhooks come with a firehose of data that is hard for ESPs to deal with. In this blog, the Product team announce 2 latest features that solve this problem.

Delivering Sweet Tunes with SparkPost and the Spotify API

May. 5, 2017 / By Aydrian Howard

Want your friends to help build the party playlist? Aydrian walks you through how to create a collaborative playlist with SparkPost and the Spotify API.

Tracking Recipient Preferences With The User Agent Header in PHP

Mar. 24, 2017 / By Ewan Dennis

Learn how to build out a webhook service to receive, process, and store user agent details for tracking clicks from your SparkPost account.

SparkPost and PostgreSQL

Mar. 1, 2017 / By Tom Mairs

Leveraging PostgreSQL with SparkPost’s cloud services to optimize features like real-time suppression lists, auto-responders, and content snippet libraries.

Leveraging Substitution Data and Templates to Personalize Emails

Jan. 30, 2017 / By Jeff Goldstein

Jeff Goldstein explains how to leverage substitution data and templates to separate the work of obtaining data for personalized emails and the creative for those emails.

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How SparkPost Built A Robust Webhooks Delivery Infrastructure

Sep. 2, 2016 / By Jason Sorensen

Our webhooks infrastructure allows you to push events to your own endpoint for processing. See what this infrastructure is built on.

5 Inbound Email Processing Use Cases For Your Apps

Jun. 17, 2016 / By Aydrian Howard

Here are several creative ways you can push the envelope with inbound email processing to open up new opportunities to interact with your recipients.

So You're A Webhook Consumer Now: Beyond the Basics

SparkPost Webhooks: Beyond The Basics

Jan. 8, 2016 / By Ewan Dennis

Explore SparkPost webhooks beyond the basics and learn to create production-ready webhook consumers quickly and avoid pitfalls.

New Feature: OAuth2 Authentication Support for Webhooks

Sep. 2, 2015 / By Irina Doliov

We're happy to announce another new security feature to SparkPost: the ability to use OAuth2 in setting up webhooks. Find out what and why we're using OAuth2.

Consuming SparkPost Webhook Events with Loggly – Part 1 of 3

Mar. 25, 2015 / By Benjamin Dean

Continuing from my last blog post, How Developers Can Use Transactional Email for Customer Success, I thought it would be best to step through how to quickly setup a Loggly account to act as a SparkPost Webhook Event Consumer. This will be released over the next three weeks for each of my blog posts:

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