Basics & Fundamentals

This guide will give you everything you need to start using the Docs Marketing API to manage audiences, control automation workflows, sync email activity with your database, and more.

The basics

The Docs Marketing API provides programmatic access to Docs data and functionality, allowing developers to build custom features to do things like sync email activity and campaign analytics with their database, manage audiences and campaigns, and more.

To use the Docs API, you need a Docs account. What you can do with the API depends on what level of Docs plan you have. Once you have an account and are logged in, you can get an API key and begin making calls to the API.

Using Docs

Whether you’re managing your own campaigns, providing Docs services to your customers or clients, or writing a mobile app, the Docs Marketing API has features to manage and sync your contact data.

You can also use the Docs API to handle data in different ways for different purposes. If you are syncing a large amount of data with Docs, you can use batches to avoid hitting the API request limits. For building integrations that let other users access data from their own Docs accounts, you should authenticate with OAuth 2. And if you’re developing an app for iOS or Android, the Mobile SDK provides an easy way to work with a mobile-focused subset of the Docs API’s functionality.