README.rst

MailSnake

MailSnake is a Python wrapper for MailChimp API 1.3

Installation

pip install mailsnake

Usage

Basic Ping

from mailsnake import MailSnake
from mailsnake.exceptions import *

ms = MailSnake('YOUR MAILCHIMP API KEY')
try:
    ms.ping() # returns "Everything's Chimpy!"
except MailSnakeException:
    print 'An error occurred. :('

Catching Errors

ms = MailSnake( 'my_wrong_mailchimp_api_key_that_does_not_exist')
try:
    ms.ping() # returns "Everything's Chimpy!"
except InvalidApiKeyException:
    print 'You have a bad API key, sorry.'

Note

API parameters must be passed by name. For example:

ms.listMemberInfo(id='YOUR LIST ID', email_address='name@email.com')