Send an event

POST/events/sendSend an event

Request body

application/json

objectSendEventRequest

contact_idstring · uuid

The ID of the contact to associate with this event. Exactly one of `contact_id` or `email` must be provided.

emailstring · email

The email address to associate with this event. Exactly one of `contact_id` or `email` must be provided.

eventstringrequired

The name of the event to send.

payloadobject

An optional payload of key/value pairs to include with the event.

Example request

{
  "contact_id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "email": "user@example.com",
  "event": "string",
  "payload": {
    "additionalProp1": null
  }
}

Responses

objectSendEventResponse

eventstring

The name of the event that was sent.

objectstring

Type of the response object.

Example response

{
  "event": "string",
  "object": "event"
}

Examples

curl -X POST 'https://api.resend.com/events/send' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"contact_id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","email":"user@example.com","event":"string","payload":{"additionalProp1":null}}'

const response = await fetch('https://api.resend.com/events/send', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"contact_id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","email":"user@example.com","event":"string","payload":{"additionalProp1":null}}),
});
const data = await response.json();

const response = await fetch('https://api.resend.com/events/send', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: "{\"contact_id\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\",\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"event\":\"string\",\"payload\":{\"additionalProp1\":null}}" });
console.log(await response.json());

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "https://api.resend.com/events/send",
    headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
    data='{"contact_id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","email":"user@example.com","event":"string","payload":{"additionalProp1":null}}',
)
print(response.json())

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"contact_id":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","email":"user@example.com","event":"string","payload":{"additionalProp1":null}}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "POST", "https://api.resend.com/events/send", body)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

<?php
$request = curl_init("https://api.resend.com/events/send");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "{\"contact_id\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\",\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"event\":\"string\",\"payload\":{\"additionalProp1\":null}}");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.resend.com/events/send"))
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString("{\"contact_id\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\",\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"event\":\"string\",\"payload\":{\"additionalProp1\":null}}"))
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

require 'net/http'

uri = URI("https://api.resend.com/events/send")
request = Net::HTTPGenericRequest.new("POST", true, true, uri)
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"contact_id\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\",\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"event\":\"string\",\"payload\":{\"additionalProp1\":null}}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.resend.com/events/send");
request.Content = new StringContent("{\"contact_id\":\"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\",\"email\":\"user@example.com\",\"event\":\"string\",\"payload\":{\"additionalProp1\":null}}", Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);

{
  "event": "string",
  "object": "event"
}

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