Create a profile

Merge the supplied values with an existing profile or create a new profile if one doesn't already exist.

URL: https://api.courier.com/profiles/:user_id

Method: POST

PATH PARAMS

user_idstringrequired

A unique identifier representing the user associated with the requested profile. We do not advise using an email address or phone number for this value because those values may change over time.

BODY PARAMS

profileobject

+ Show Properties

RESPONSES:

status: 200 OK

statusstring

status: 400 Bad Request

messagestring

A message describing the error that occurred.

typestring

[invalid_request_error] The type of error that occurred.

Request Example

cURL

curl --request POST \
     --url https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6 \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "profile": {
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "phone_number": "555-555-5555"
  }
}
'

Node.js

// Dependencies to install:
// $ npm install node-fetch --save

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "profile": {
      "email": "user@example.com",
      "phone_number": "555-555-5555"
    }
  })
};

fetch('https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"profile\":{\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"phone_number\":\"555-555-5555\"}}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Python

# Dependencies to install:
# $ python -m pip install requests

import requests

url = "https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6"

payload = {
  "profile": {
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "phone_number": "555-555-5555"
  }
}
headers = {
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "strings"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6"

  payload := strings.NewReader("{\"profile\":{\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"phone_number\":\"555-555-5555\"}}")

  req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

  req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
  req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

  res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

  defer res.Body.Close()
  body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

  fmt.Println(res)
  fmt.Println(string(body))

}

PHP

<?php
// Dependencies to install:
// $ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.courier.com/profiles/0460766e-8463-4905-ae98-b72c7aef41d6', [
  'body' => '{"profile":{"email":"user@example.com","phone_number":"555-555-5555"}}',
  'headers' => [
    'Accept' => 'application/json',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();

Responses Example

{
  "status": "SUCCESS"
}

{
  "message": "Error Message",
  "type": "invalid_request_error"
}