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Retrieve Email Statistics for Categories



API Overview

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Categories can help organize your email analytics by enabling you to group emails by type. Just as you can view the statistics on all your email activity, you can go a step further and view the statistics by a particular category.

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Warning

Effective February 1, 2022, Twilio SendGrid will limit the number of stored category statistics available per user. Accounts on a paid plan will be allowed 1,000 categories daily. Accounts on a free plan will be allowed 100 categories daily. For more information about this change, see the Limitations section of our "Working with Categories" page.

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Category statistics are available for the previous thirteen months only.


GET/v3/categories/stats

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (for global users and subusers)

Base url: https://api.eu.sendgrid.com (for EU regional subusers)

This endpoint allows you to retrieve all of your email statistics for each of your categories.

If you do not define any query parameters, this endpoint will return a sum for each category in groups of 10.


Authentication

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Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstringrequired
Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

on-behalf-ofstringOptional

The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
start_datestringrequired

The starting date of the statistics to retrieve. Must follow format YYYY-MM-DD


end_datestringOptional

The end date of the statistics to retrieve. Defaults to today. Must follow format YYYY-MM-DD.


categoriesstringrequired

The individual categories that you want to retrieve statistics for. You may include up to 10 different categories.


aggregated_byenum<string>Optional

How to group the statistics. Must be either "day", "week", or "month".

Possible values:
dayweekmonth
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SchemaExample

Array of:

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
datestring

The date the statistics were gathered.


statsarray[object]
Retrieve Email Statistics for CategoriesLink to code sample: Retrieve Email Statistics for Categories
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const client = require('@sendgrid/client');
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client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
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const queryParams = {
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"start_date": "2010-01-22",
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"categories": "ZGkrHSypTsudrGkmdpJJ"
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};
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const request = {
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url: `/v3/categories/stats`,
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method: 'GET',
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qs: queryParams
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}
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client.request(request)
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.then(([response, body]) => {
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console.log(response.statusCode);
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console.log(response.body);
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})
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.catch(error => {
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console.error(error);
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});