Use the Mailchimp API

Question

I\'d like to use the Mailchimp Node.js API in my Parse Cloud Hosting app to subscribe a user to a mailing list. Parse doesn\'t support NPM but, given that the Mailchimp API

Answer 1

I've been unable to use the Mailchimp API directly but the REST API is pretty easy to use.

In main.js, create a Cloud Function. Enter your API key and update the REST URL to point at the correct Mailchimp data center (http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/2.0/)

var mailchimpApiKey = "<>";

Parse.Cloud.define("SubscribeUserToMailingList", function(request, response) {

  if (!request.params ||
        !request.params.email){
    response.error("Must supply email address, firstname and lastname to Mailchimp signup");
    return;
  }

  var mailchimpData = {
    apikey  : mailchimpApiKey,
    id      : request.params.listid,
    email   : {
      email : request.params.email
    },
    merge_vars : request.params.mergevars
  }

  var url = "https://<>.api.mailchimp.com/2.0/lists/subscribe.json";

  Parse.Cloud.httpRequest({
    method: 'POST',
    url: url,
    body: JSON.stringify(mailchimpData),
    success: function(httpResponse) {
      console.log(httpResponse.text);

      response.success("Successfully subscribed");
    },
    error: function(httpResponse) {
      console.error('Request failed with response code ' + httpResponse.status);
      console.error(httpResponse.text);

      response.error('Mailchimp subscribe failed with response code ' + httpResponse.status);
    }
  });

});

Then, in the code which calls this function... (replace your list ID)

Parse.Cloud.run("SubscribeUserToMailingList", {
    listid      : "<>",
    email       : email,
    mergevars   : {
        FNAME   : firstName,
        LNAME   : lastName
    }
})
.then(function(success){
    console.log("Successfully subscribed");
    // ...
},
function(error){
    console.log("Unable to subscribe");
    // ...
});