Tracking email with SendGrid alike MailGun - api

Question

I'm studying some email services, as SensdGrid and MailGun.
In MailGun docs I found a really usefull function: https://documentation.mailgun.com/user_manual.html#events
You can simply ask to MailGun API the events triggered, sending also some filters. It is really simple and powerful. Here an example:
using System;
using System.IO;
using RestSharp;
using RestSharp.Authenticators;
public class EventsDateTimeRecipientChunk
{
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine (EventsDateTimeRecipient ().Content.ToString ());
}
public static IRestResponse EventsDateTimeRecipient ()
{
RestClient client = new RestClient ();
client.BaseUrl = new Uri ("https://api.mailgun.net/v3");
client.Authenticator =
new HttpBasicAuthenticator ("api",
"YOUR_API_KEY");
RestRequest request = new RestRequest ();
request.AddParameter ("domain", "YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME", ParameterType.UrlSegment);
request.Resource = "{domain}/events";
request.AddParameter ("begin", "Fri, 3 May 2013 09:00:00 -0000");
request.AddParameter ("ascending", "yes");
request.AddParameter ("limit", 25);
request.AddParameter ("pretty", "yes");
request.AddParameter ("recipient", "joe#example.com");
return client.Execute (request);
}
}
and an output sample:
{
"items": [
{
"tags": [],
"timestamp": 1376325780.160809,
"envelope": {
"sender": "me#samples.mailgun.org",
"transport": ""
},
"event": "accepted",
"campaigns": [],
"user-variables": {},
"flags": {
"is-authenticated": true,
"is-test-mode": false
},
"message": {
"headers": {
"to": "user#example.com",
"message-id": "20130812164300.28108.52546#samples.mailgun.org",
"from": "Excited User <me#samples.mailgun.org>",
"subject": "Hello"
},
"attachments": [],
"recipients": [
"user#example.com"
],
"size": 69
},
"recipient": "user#example.com",
"method": "http"
}
],
"paging": {
"next":
"https://api.mailgun.net/v3/samples.mailgun.org/events/W3siY...",
"previous":
"https://api.mailgun.net/v3/samples.mailgun.org/events/Lkawm..."
}
}
Is it possible I can't find the same feature in SendGrid? I'm getting crazy searching in their documents.. I found the webhooks, but it isn't what I need. I only want to see the email status with a http request like MailGun does.
Can you help me?

Answer 1

Hope you figured it out by now,
Yet here's for the future :
You should use the webhooks, as follows:
1 configure the apps: clicktrack, opentrack& .what_you_want_to_tarck.. & eventnotify to true, with Get & activate
2 create a POSTURL using RequestPin,
3 activate the event notification from mail settings in dashboard & check the events you want , when you press the testYourIntegration button, you should get the example post request to the created url.
use this code as described in the official documentation:
string apikey = "......."
sg = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(apikey=os.environ.get( apikey ))
to_email = Email("....#gmail.com")
from_email =Email ("....")
subject= '...'
content = Content("text/plain","Trying SendGrid")
mail = Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, content)
response = sg.client.mail.send.post(request_body=mail.get())
Now , go & open or click the email sent by code, to declench the event .., then go back
https://requestb.in/Your_bin_id?inspect
& you should see the notifications after a little while
for more, you can then go to :
https://requestb.in/api/v1/bins/bin_id/requests
do a Get request with code & just parse the JSON