Interspire Email Marketer XML API Settings Version 6

Posted December 6th, 2010 in Interspire Email Marketer

Interspire Email Marketer is an email marketing system using PHP and MySQL and has a powerful API system for interacting with it from other scripts. This post looks at how to enable the XML API generate the token needed when logging in to the API with IEM version 6. I posted how to do this originally for version 5 (here) but the locations of where to get the API key have changed slightly with version 6. Click here for more details about Interspire's Email Marketer.

Enabling the XML API with version 6

After logging in to the email marketer interface click the "Users & Groups" option in the navigation at the top right. A sub menu will appear; click the "View User Accounts" option. This is shown in the screenshot below where I have highlight the user accounts option with a red box.

This brings up a list of users showing their username, full name, activity status, user type and action links for editing and deleting. This is shown in the screenshot from which I've removed some of the details for reasons of space. Click the "Edit" link to edit/view the user's details. This is highlighted again with a red box.

At the top of the edit user account page are some tabs; click the "Advanced User Settings" tab as shown in the screenshot below which is again highlighted with a red box. If the XML API has not yet been enabled the "Enable the XML API" checkbox will not be checked and the XML options will not be displayed. This checkbox is also highlighted with a red box below.

After checking the box to enable the XML API, the XML path, username and token will be displayed as shown in the screenshot below. None of the fields are editable.

If an XML token has not yet been generated, the field will be blank. Click the "Regenerate XML API Token" link to generate a new one, and then copy it from the XML Token field once generated to use in your scripts when connecting via the API.

A new token can be re-generated at any time by clicking the "Regenerate XML API Token" link. If you do this make sure to update your scripts that call the API otherwise they will no longer work.

Note: make sure you scroll down and click the "Save" button after generating a new token; it will not be saved automatically.