Mailchimp Node.js Library

A Mailchimp Node library provides convenient access to the Mailchimo API from applications written in server-side JavaScript.

This library uses Mailchimp API v3.0

Forked from the excellent Stripe Node library

Installation

Install the package with:

npm install mailchimp-node --save

# Usage

The package needs to be configured with your account's secret key which is available in your Mailchimp Dashboard. Require it with the key's value:

var mailchimp = require('mailchimp-node')('sk_test_...');
 
mailchimp.list.createMember(
  'exampleListHash',
  { email: 'subscriber@example.com', status: 'subscribed' },
  function(err, subscriber) {
    err; // null if no error occurred
    subscriber; // the created subscriber object
  }
);

Or using ES modules, this looks more like:

import mailchimpPackage from 'mailchimp';
const mailchimp = mailchimpPackage('sk_test_...');

Using Promises

Every method returns a chainable promise which can be used instead of a regular callback:

// Create a new subscriber and then a new charge for that subscriber:
mailchimp.list.create({
  name: 'Foobar Johnson',
  contact: {
    company: 'Foobar Inc.',
    address1: '123 Foobar Street',
    city: 'Foocity',
    state: 'Foostate',
    zip: 01234,
    country: 'US',
  },
  permission_reminder: '',
  campaign_defaults: {
    from_name: 'Foobar Johnson',
    from_email: 'foo123johnson@example.com',
    subject: 'Default Foobar Subject',
    language: 'eng',
  },
  email_type_option: false,
}).then(function(list){
  return mailchimp.list.createMember(list.id, {
    email: 'bob@example.com',
    status: 'subscribed',
  });
}).then(function(subscriber) {
  // New subscriber
}).catch(function(err) {
  // Deal with an error
});

Configuring Timeout

Request timeout is configurable (the default is Node's default of 120 seconds):

mailchimp.setTimeout(20000); // in ms (this is 20 seconds)

Configuring a Proxy

An https-proxy-agent can be configured with setHttpAgent.

To use mailchimp behind a proxy you can pass to sdk:

if (process.env.http_proxy) {
  const ProxyAgent = require('https-proxy-agent');
  mailchimp.setHttpAgent(new ProxyAgent(process.env.http_proxy));
}

Examining Responses

Some information about the response which generated a resource is available with the lastResponse property:

charge.lastResponse.requestId // see: https://mailchimp.com/docs/api/node#request_ids
charge.lastResponse.statusCode

request and response events

The mailchimp object emits request and response events. You can use them like this:

var mailchimp = require('mailchimp')('sk_test_...');
 
function onRequest(request) {
  // Do something.
}
 
// Add the event handler function:
mailchimp.on('request', onRequest);
 
// Remove the event handler function:
mailchimp.off('request', onRequest);

request object

{
  api_version: 'latest',
  account: 'acct_TEST',       // Only present if provided
  idempotency_key: 'abc123',  // Only present if provided
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/v1/charges'
}

response object

{
  api_version: 'latest',
  account: 'acct_TEST',       // Only present if provided
  idempotency_key: 'abc123',  // Only present if provided
  method: 'POST',
  path: '/v1/charges',
  status: 402,
  request_id: 'req_Ghc9r26ts73DRf',
  elapsed: 445                // Elapsed time in milliseconds
}

Webhook signing

mailchimp can optionally sign the webhook events it sends to your endpoint, allowing you to validate that they were not sent by a third-party. You can read more about it here.

Please note that you must pass the raw request body, exactly as received from mailchimp, to the constructEvent() function; this will not work with a parsed (i.e., JSON) request body.

You can find an example of how to use this with Express in the examples/webhook-signing folder, but here's what it looks like:

event = mailchimp.webhooks.constructEvent(
  webhookRawBody,
  webhookmailchimpSignatureHeader,
  webhookSecret
);

Writing a Plugin

If you're writing a plugin that uses the library, we'd appreciate it if you identified using mailchimp.setAppInfo():

mailchimp.setAppInfo({
  name: 'MyAwesomePlugin',
  version: '1.2.34', // Optional
  url: 'https://myawesomeplugin.info', // Optional
});

This information is passed along when the library makes calls to the mailchimp API.

More Information

• REST API Version
• Error Handling
• Passing Options
• Using mailchimp Connect

Development

Run all tests:

$ npm install
$ npm test

Run a single test suite:

$ npm run mocha -- test/Error.spec.js

Run a single test (case sensitive):

$ npm run mocha -- test/Error.spec.js --grep 'Populates with type'

If you wish, you may run tests using your mailchimp Test API key by setting the environment variable MAILCHIMP_TEST_API_KEY before running the tests:

$ export mailchimp_TEST_API_KEY='sk_test....'
$ npm test