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API reference

Get the sending rules

Pacing, new people per day, quiet hours, stop words, expiry and which chats the Mac copies.

GET/v1/settings

Pacing, new people per day, quiet hours, stop words, expiry and which chats the Mac copies.

Needs a key with the account:read scope. Keys and scopes

Example

curl "https://usebluebot.com/api/v1/settings" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLUEBOT_API_KEY"

Response

200: The settings.

  • object"settings"required
  • business_namestring or nullrequired

    Your business’s name, which {{business}} fills in. Null until you set it; texts that would name the business leave it out until then.

  • time_zonestringrequired

    The zone quiet hours and daily limits are read in.

  • pace_secondsintegerrequired

    Seconds between two texts leaving the Mac, 5 to 300.

  • new_people_per_dayintegerrequired

    How many people you have never texted with BlueBot may be texted in a day, 0 to 1,000.

  • quiet_hoursobjectrequired
    Show its 3 fields
    • enabledbooleanrequired
    • startstringrequired

      When quiet hours start, in time_zone.

    • endstringrequired

      When they end.

  • smart_quiet_hoursbooleanrequired

    Read quiet hours in the recipient’s zone, from their area code, where BlueBot knows it.

  • stop_wordsobjectrequired
    Show its 4 fields
    • enabledbooleanrequired

      Whether a reply of only a stop word puts the person on the stop list.

    • wordsarray of stringsrequired

      The stop words: your own list, or the defaults when custom is false.

    • custombooleanrequired

      Whether you changed the list. False means BlueBot’s defaults.

    • start_wordsarray of stringsrequired

      Words that take a person who stopped by reply off the list again.

  • expiry_hoursintegerrequired

    A text still waiting this long after it was due expires, 1 to 168.

  • inbound_modestringrequired

    Which chats the Mac copies to BlueBot: replies (people BlueBot has texted) or everything.

    One of replies, everything.

  • paused_untiltimestamp or nullrequired

    While you have sending paused, until when.

  • platform_daily_limitintegerrequired

    BlueBot’s ceiling on texts a day, which you can’t change.

  • warningsarray of stringsrequired

    Things worth knowing about these settings, in words.

Response200
{
  "object": "settings",
  "business_name": "Dana Realty",
  "time_zone": "America/Chicago",
  "pace_seconds": 20,
  "new_people_per_day": 50,
  "quiet_hours": {
    "enabled": true,
    "start": "21:00",
    "end": "08:00"
  },
  "smart_quiet_hours": false,
  "stop_words": {
    "enabled": true,
    "words": [
      "stop",
      "stopall",
      "unsubscribe",
      "cancel",
      "end",
      "quit"
    ],
    "custom": false,
    "start_words": [
      "start",
      "unstop",
      "yes"
    ]
  },
  "expiry_hours": 24,
  "inbound_mode": "replies",
  "paused_until": null,
  "platform_daily_limit": 1000,
  "warnings": []
}

Errors

Every refusal has the same envelope and a page of its own. These are the ones this operation can give.

CodeStatusWhat it means
unauthorized401The request carried no key, or a key BlueBot doesn’t know: mistyped, revoked, or a test key sent to the live API.
insufficient_scope403The key doesn’t carry the scope the endpoint needs. Each endpoint’s reference names its scope.
rate_limited429Too many requests. A key may make 120 requests a minute. The RateLimit header says how many are left, and Retry-After how long to wait.
internal500Something went wrong on BlueBot’s side. It was reported. Send the request again; with an Idempotency-Key that is always safe.

Try it

Call this operation from the page with your own key. The key stays in this tab and is forgotten when you leave.