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How to use the SendGrid V3 API

Welcome to SendGrid’s Web API v3! This API is RESTful, fully featured, easy to integrate with, and offers support in 7 different languages.

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Responses

Content-Type Header

All responses are returned in JSON format. We specify this by sending the Content-Type header.

GET https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "foo": "bar"
}

Status Codes

Below is a table containing descriptions of the various status codes we currently support against various resources.

Status Code Description
200 No error
201 Successfully created
204 Successfully deleted
400 Bad request
401 Requires authentication
403 From address doesn't match Verified Sender Identity. To learn how to resolve this error, see our Sender Identity requirements.
403 You are temporarily blocked from sending emails due to repeated bad requests.
406 Missing Accept header. For example: Accept: application/json
429 Too many requests/Rate limit exceeded
500 Internal server error

Pagination

When a request is made with a pagination query, the following data is included in the header to allow for easy traversal of previous, current, first, and last page of the data set.

GET https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource?limit=5&offset=0 HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

Link: <http://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource?limit=5&offset=5>; rel="next"; title="2",
      <http://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource?limit=5&offset=0>; rel="prev"; title="1",
      <http://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource?limit=5&offset=10>; rel="last"; title="3",
      <http://api.sendgrid.com/v3/resource?limit=5&offset=0>; rel="first"; title="1"

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