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Gowri
Gowri

Reputation: 1856

Send mail using send grid api key

I'm using send grid for sending mails. This is the script I used.

$url = 'https://api.sendgrid.com/';
$params = array(
    'api_user'  => 'xxx',   // My send grid username
    'api_key'   => xxx',   // My send grid password
    'to'        => tomail,     
    'subject'   => 'sub',
    'html'      => 'message',
    'from'      => frommail,
);

$request =  $url.'api/mail.send.json';
$session = curl_init($request);
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);

It's working fine and sending mails successfully.

I wan't to use send grid api key for sending mails without using the password. I generated it from 'app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys' got api key id and long key.

How can I use this keys from web api call. I'm replacing api_user and api_keys with newly generated api key name and key but mails are not sending.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6667

Answers (4)

Karan
Karan

Reputation: 1187

Using the API key with the Autorization: Bearer key header works.

Upvotes: 0

Tom Fast
Tom Fast

Reputation: 1158

I ran into this today as well. To add to the answer provided by @bwest:

$pass = 'your api token' // not the key, but the token

$url = 'https://api.sendgrid.com/';

//remove the user and password params - no longer needed
$params = array(
    'to'        => tomail,     
    'subject'   => 'sub',
    'html'      => 'message',
    'from'      => frommail,
);

$request =  $url.'api/mail.send.json';
$headr = array();
// set authorization header
$headr[] = 'Authorization: Bearer '.$pass;

$session = curl_init($request);
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// add authorization header
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headr);

$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);

Upvotes: 7

bwest
bwest

Reputation: 9844

To send with an API key, you need to add an Authorization header to your request. It is an HTTP Basic auth header, meaning it is in the format username:password, base64 encoded, as a bearer token. You can see an example in the docs.

Upvotes: 3

Rithvik Vibhu
Rithvik Vibhu

Reputation: 441

I use the Send Grid php library where I can use username and password OR just the API Key.

Try removing the api_user line and using the api key with api_key. It should work.

For more info: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Code_Examples/php.html

Upvotes: 1

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