cURL Examples for Common Use Cases

Below are some cURL examples for several basic use cases to get you sending email through SendGrid's v3 Mail Send endpoint right away!

Hello, World!

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "sendeexampexample@example.com"},"subject": "Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain", "value": "Heya!"}]}'

Sending a Basic Email to Multiple Recipients

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}],"cc": [{"email":"recipient2@example.com"}, {"email": "recipient3@example.com"}, {"email":"recipient4@example.com"}]}], "from": {"email": "sendeexampexample@example.com"},"subject":"Hello, World!", "content": [{"type": "text/plain", "value": "Heya!"}]}'

Sending a Basic Email Using a Template

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "sendeexampexample@example.com"},"subject":"Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain","value": "Heya!"}], "template_id" : "YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID"}'

Sending a Basic Email with Attachment

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "sender@example.com"},"subject":"Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/html","value": "Hey,<br>Please find attachment."}], "attachments": [{"content": "BASE64_ENCODED_CONTENT", "type": "text/plain", "filename": "attachment.txt"}]}'

Sending a Basic Email at a Scheduled Time

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "sendeexampexample@example.com"},"subject":"Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain","value": "Heya!"}], "send_at" : UNIX_TIMESTAMP_HERE}'

Scheduling and Cancelling an Email

You may schedule an email to be sent up to 72 hours in the future by using the send_at parameter. You may cancel this same scheduled email by using the Cancel Scheduled Sends endpoint.

Step 1: Generate a batch ID

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/batch \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \

Step 2: Schedule the email to be sent, using your new batch ID

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"personalizations": [{"to": [{"email": "recipient@example.com"}]}],"from": {"email": "sendeexampexample@example.com"},"subject":"Hello, World!","content": [{"type": "text/plain","value": "Heya!"}], "send_at" : UNIX_TIMESTAMP_HERE, "batch_id" : "YOUR_BATCH_ID"}'

Step 3: Cancel the scheduled email

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/user/scheduled_sends \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"batch_id":"YOUR_BATCH_ID","status":"cancel"}'

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