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Retrieve sums of email stats for each category

API Overview

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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Info

Category statistics are available for the previous thirteen months only.

Operation overview

GET/v3/categories/stats/sums

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 the total sum of each email statistic for every category over the given date range.

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

Operation details

Authentication

API Key

Headers

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.

Query string

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

sort_by_metricstringOptional

The metric that you want to sort by. Must be a single metric.

Default: delivered

sort_by_directionenum<string>Optional

The direction you want to sort.

Default: descPossible values:

descasc

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.

limitintegerOptional

Limits the number of results returned.

Default: 5

offsetintegerOptional

The point in the list to begin retrieving results.

Default: 0

aggregated_byenum<string>Optional

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

Possible values:

dayweekmonth

Responses

200

SchemaExample

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

datestring

The date the statistics were gathered.

statsarray[object]

Show child properties for stats

{
  "date": "2015-01-01",
  "stats": [
    {
      "metrics": {
        "blocks": 0,
        "bounce_drops": 0,
        "bounces": 0,
        "clicks": 20,
        "deferred": 0,
        "delivered": 20,
        "invalid_emails": 0,
        "opens": 20,
        "processed": 0,
        "requests": 20,
        "spam_report_drops": 0,
        "spam_reports": 0,
        "unique_clicks": 20,
        "unique_opens": 20,
        "unsubscribe_drops": 0,
        "unsubscribes": 20
      },
      "name": "cat1",
      "type": "category"
    },
    {
      "metrics": {
        "blocks": 1,
        "bounce_drops": 0,
        "bounces": 0,
        "clicks": 19,
        "deferred": 0,
        "delivered": 19,
        "invalid_emails": 0,
        "opens": 19,
        "processed": 0,
        "requests": 20,
        "spam_report_drops": 0,
        "spam_reports": 0,
        "unique_clicks": 19,
        "unique_opens": 19,
        "unsubscribe_drops": 0,
        "unsubscribes": 19
      },
      "name": "cat2",
      "type": "category"
    },
    {
      "metrics": {
        "blocks": 0,
        "bounce_drops": 0,
        "bounces": 0,
        "clicks": 5,
        "deferred": 0,
        "delivered": 5,
        "invalid_emails": 0,
        "opens": 5,
        "processed": 0,
        "requests": 5,
        "spam_report_drops": 0,
        "spam_reports": 0,
        "unique_clicks": 5,
        "unique_opens": 5,
        "unsubscribe_drops": 0,
        "unsubscribes": 5
      },
      "name": "cat3",
      "type": "category"
    },
    {
      "metrics": {
        "blocks": 0,
        "bounce_drops": 0,
        "bounces": 0,
        "clicks": 6,
        "deferred": 0,
        "delivered": 5,
        "invalid_emails": 0,
        "opens": 6,
        "processed": 0,
        "requests": 5,
        "spam_report_drops": 0,
        "spam_reports": 0,
        "unique_clicks": 5,
        "unique_opens": 5,
        "unsubscribe_drops": 0,
        "unsubscribes": 6
      },
      "name": "cat4",
      "type": "category"
    },
    {
      "metrics": {
        "blocks": 10,
        "bounce_drops": 0,
        "bounces": 0,
        "clicks": 0,
        "deferred": 0,
        "delivered": 0,
        "invalid_emails": 0,
        "opens": 0,
        "processed": 0,
        "requests": 10,
        "spam_report_drops": 0,
        "spam_reports": 0,
        "unique_clicks": 0,
        "unique_opens": 0,
        "unsubscribe_drops": 0,
        "unsubscribes": 0
      },
      "name": "cat5",
      "type": "category"
    }
  ]
}

Retrieve sums of email stats for each category [Needs: Stats object defined, has category ID?]

1const client = require('@sendgrid/client');
2client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
3
4const queryParams = {
5  "sort_by_metric": "delivered",
6  "start_date": "2010-01-22",
7  "limit": 5
8};
9
10const request = {
11  url: `/v3/categories/stats/sums`,
12  method: 'GET',
13  qs: queryParams
14}
15
16client.request(request)
17  .then(([response, body]) => {
18    console.log(response.statusCode);
19    console.log(response.body);
20  })
21  .catch(error => {
22    console.error(error);
23  });