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This API allows you to create one or more new lists. A list name has to be unique within an account.

The Lists created using this API can only be used within Call Campaigns.

POST

https://<your_api_key>:<your_api_token><subdomain>/v2/accounts/<your_sid>/lists

  • Replace <your_api_key> and <your_api_token> with the API key and token created by you.
  • Replace <your_sid> with your “Account sid”
  • Replace <subdomain> with the region of your account
    1. <subdomain> of Singapore cluster is @api.exotel.com
    2. <subdomain> of Mumbai cluster is @api.in.exotel.com

<your_api_key> , <your_api_token> and <your_sid> are available in the API settings page of your Exotel Dashboard

The following are the POST parameters:

Parameter Name   Mandatory/Optional Value

name

Mandatory 

Name of list (unique within an account)

tag

optional 

Tag value for the list

curl -X POST 'https://<your_api_key>:<your_api_token>@<subdomain>/v2/accounts/exotel8u3/lists' 
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' 
--data-raw '{
    "lists": [
        {
        "name": "new-csv_list2"
        }
    ]
}'
var unirest = require('unirest');
var accountSid = "XXXXXXXXX";
var accountToken = "YYYYYYYYY";
var authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ";

var encoding = Buffer.from(authKey + ':' + accountToken).toString('base64');
var req = unirest('POST', "https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/"+accountSid+"/lists")
  .headers({
	  Authorization: 'Basic ' + encoding,
	  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  })
  .send(JSON.stringify({"lists":[
    {
    	"name":"list123"
    },
		{
			"name":"list345"	
		}
	]}))
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });
<?php

$curl = curl_init();
$accountSid = "XXXXXXXXXX";
$accountToken = "YYYYYYYYYY";
$authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ";

$encoding = base64_encode($authKey .":". $accountToken);

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/exotel8u3/lists',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "lists": [
        {
            "name": "list123"
        },
        {
            "name": "list345"
        }
    ]
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Basic ".$encoding,
    'Content-Type: application/json'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
import requests
import base64 
import json
accountSid = "XXXXXXXXX"
authToken = "YYYYYYYYY"
authKey = "ZZZZZZZZZZ"

encoding = base64.b64encode(authKey + ":" + authToken)

url = "https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/"+ accountSid+"/lists"

payload = json.dumps({
    "lists": [
        {
            "name": "list123",
            
        },
        {
            "name": "list345",
            
        }
    ]
})

headers = {
    'Authorization': "Basic " + encoding,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}


response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
print(json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent = 4, sort_keys = True))
package main

import (
	b64 "encoding/base64"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	// Please provide accountSid, authToken from your Exotel account
	accountSid := "XXXXXXXXX"
	authToken := "YYYYYYYY"
	authKey := "ZZZZZZZZZZ"

	// Encoding the accountSid and authToken, used in Authorization header
	encoding := b64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(authKey + ":" + authToken))

	url := "https://<subdomain>/v2/accounts/" + accountSid + "/lists"
	method := "POST"

	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
    "lists": [
        {
        "name": "list31@3"
        }
    ]
}`)

	client := &http.Client{}
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic "+encoding)
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}
{
    "request_id": "b45f202e1ec14b37bc459235a65f8712",
    "method": "POST",
    "http_code": 207,
    "metadata": {
        "failed": 0,
        "total": 1,
        "success": 1
    },
    "response": [
        {
            "code": 200,
            "error_data": null,
            "status": "success",
            "data": {
                "sid": "46cd9106113f4920be56811382ebefba",
                "date_created": "2021-05-23T14:09:32.143446635+05:30",
                "date_updated": "2021-05-23T14:09:32.143446635+05:30",
                "account_sid": "exotel8u3",
                "name": "new-csv_list2",
                "uri": "/v2/accounts/exotel8u3/lists/46cd9106113f4920be56811382ebefba",
                "tag": null,
                "contact_count": null
            }
        }
    ]
}