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Groups API Reference

Hellio Messaging's Groups API allows you to manage contact groups that are identified by a unique random ID. Use this ID to create, view, update or delete groups. The Groups API uses HTTP verbs and a RESTful endpoint structure with an access key that is used as the API Authorization framework. Request and response payloads are formatted as JSON—although we provide a GET alternative for requests—using UTF-8 encoding and URL encoded values.


API URL V1:

https://api.helliomessaging.com/v1/groups/create?


Available HTTP methods: POST


Version: v1


Content-Type: application/json

Request Parameters

Parameter Type Description Required
username String Your Hellio username Required
password String Your Hellio password Required
name String The name of the group Required

PHP Sample Code Overview


    $baseUrl = 'https://api.helliomessaging.com/v1/groups?';

    $username = 'YOUR-HELLIO-MESSAGING-USERNAME';
    $password = 'YOUR-HELLIO-MESSAGING-PASSWORD';
    $name = 'groupname';

    $params = array(
        'username' => $username,
        'password' => $password,
        'groupName' => $name,
    );

    // Send through CURL
    $ch = curl_init($baseUrl);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    // Process your response here
      $result = curl_exec($ch);
      echo var_export($result, true);
     curl_close($ch);

Response Object


    {
    "id": "61afc0531573b08ddbe36e1c85602827",
    "href": "https://api.helliomessaging.com/v1/groups/61afc0531573b08ddbe36e1c85602827",
    "name": "Home",
    "contacts": {
    "totalCount": 0,
    "href": "https://api.helliomessaging.com/v1/groups/61afc0531573b08ddbe36e1c85602827/contacts"
    },
    "createdDatetime": "2016-04-29T09:42:26+00:00",
    "updatedDatetime": "2016-04-29T09:42:26+00:00"
    }