{"id":1721,"date":"2017-06-08T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T07:35:59","slug":"taking-advantage-mailchimp-web-hooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.botreetechnologies.com\/blog\/taking-advantage-mailchimp-web-hooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Advantage Of Mailchimp Web Hooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article will guide you on how we can take the advantage of the Mailchimp<\/b><\/a> web hooks in order to keep our database synchronized with mailchimp data. Actually in our database we stored the data from mailchimp user profile such as email<\/b>, name<\/b> and subscription status<\/b> (i.e subscribed or unsubscribed)<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to keep our database column updated there are two ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Fire an mailchimp API call whenever the user signs in or update data once in day. But its way too costly. What if the profile data of the user updates occasionally ?<\/li>
  2. Take advantage of the mailchimp web hooks<\/b> which will only come into picture when data is updated at mailchimp.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Any intelligent programmer would always go with the second option. That a nice decision!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    How to add web hooks?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    • Go to Lists<\/b> tab<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
      \"Lists
      Go to list tab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
      • Create the desired List<\/b> that fits as per your needs.<\/li>
      • Select the List<\/b> for which you want to add the web hooks.<\/li>
      • Click Settings<\/b> and then select Webhooks<\/b><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        \"Webhooks
        Select web hook option from settings<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
        • Click Create New Webhook<\/b> button.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
          \"Create
          Create new web hook button<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
          • You will see following screen<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            \"Add
            Add callback URL and option selection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
            • Now in the callback<\/b> URL text box, just add your URL on which you want to receive the callbacks.<\/li>
            • Select the check-boxes for which you want to receive the updates.<\/li>
            • That’s it! Now your web hook is configured and is ready to fire on any update \ud83d\ude42<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              Let’s take an example of Email changed<\/b> web hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Suppose the user changes the email<\/b> on the mailchimp. This will fire your configured callback URL you will get following parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n