First-party app
Constant Contact

Constant Contact

Manage Constant Contact contacts, contact lists, custom fields, and email campaigns through the V3 API.

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About

Constant Contact ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 22 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.constantcontact
Version
0.1.2
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Marketing · Email

Overview

Constant Contact syncs contact records from other systems into its lists and gets the email campaigns sent to them under workflow control, on Constant Contact’s own V3 API.

Contacts can be created, updated, upserted, unsubscribed or deleted, with membership managed across lists — including bulk imports and bulk add or remove for large audiences. Campaign creation and campaign activity are readable and writable too, and long-running operations like an import or a bulk list change can be tracked to completion through their own status action rather than assumed done on response.

The three ways to write a contact (create, replace, or upsert-and-merge) and the several ways to stop someone receiving mail (delete, unsubscribe, or remove from a list) each carry real, different consequences in Constant Contact’s own data model, and this app follows the vendor’s own guidance for each. It fits marketing teams consolidating list hygiene, campaign sends and contact lifecycle management into the same automation that handles the rest of their stack.

Build with Constant Contact

Three routes to the same 22 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Constant Contact's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Add Contacts to Lists

add-contacts-to-lists

Queue a bulk activity adding contacts to one or more lists. Asynchronous — poll the returned activity_id.

Create Contact

create-contact

Create a new contact. Fails with 409 if the email already exists — use Create or Update Contact to upsert.

Create Contact List

create-contact-list

Create a contact list. Fails with 409 if the name is already taken.

Create Email Campaign

create-email-campaign

Create a draft email campaign with its primary_email activity. Nothing is sent until it is scheduled.

Create or Update Contact

create-or-update-contact

Upsert a contact by email address. Updates are partial; list memberships and custom fields are appended, not replaced.

Delete Contact

delete-contact

Delete a contact by `contact_id`. Reversible via a PUT with update_source Account — unlike an unsubscribe.

Delete Contact List

delete-contact-list

Queue a contact list for deletion. Asynchronous — poll the returned activity_id with Get Activity Status.

Get Account Summary

get-account-summary

Fetch the connected Constant Contact account's details. Needs the `account_read` scope.

Get Activity Status

get-activity-status

Poll a queued bulk activity. `completed` can still carry per-row errors — read `activity_errors` too.

Get Campaign Activity

get-campaign-activity

Fetch a single email campaign activity. HTML content and footer details are opt-in via `include`.

Get Contact

get-contact

Fetch a single contact by `contact_id`, optionally with its sub-resources.

Get Contact List

get-contact-list

Fetch a single contact list by `list_id`.

Get Email Campaign

get-email-campaign

Fetch a campaign with its campaign_activities — the id/role pairs every content and scheduling endpoint needs.

Import Contacts (bulk)

import-contacts

Queue a bulk JSON contact import. New contacts land as `implicit` permission. Asynchronous — poll the returned activity_id.

List Contact Lists

list-contact-lists

List contact lists. Walks one page — pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor`. No date filtering: the API has none.

List Contacts

list-contacts

List contacts, filtered by status, email, list, tag or date. Walks one page — pass `next_cursor` back as `cursor`.

List Custom Fields

list-custom-fields

List the account's custom field definitions — the source of the `custom_field_id` values the contact actions take.

List Email Campaigns

list-email-campaigns

List email campaigns, filtered on `updated_at`. Includes deleted campaigns — the API has no status filter.

Remove Contacts from Lists

remove-contacts-from-lists

Queue a bulk activity removing contacts from one or more lists. Asynchronous — poll the returned activity_id.

Unsubscribe Contact

unsubscribe-contact

Opt a contact out of email. Reads the contact first so the required full-replace PUT does not blank their other fields.

Update Contact (replace)

update-contact

Replace a contact wholesale. Omitted top-level properties are set to null; omitted sub-resources are left alone.

Update Contact List

update-contact-list

Update a contact list's name, description or favourite flag. Does not change membership.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Constant Contact's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "constantcontact-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "add-contacts-to-lists",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.constantcontact",
        "action": "add-contacts-to-lists",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "listIds": "<listIds>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Add Contacts to Lists

    perform
    add-contacts-to-lists
  • Create Contact

    perform
    create-contact
  • Create Contact List

    perform
    create-contact-list
  • Create Email Campaign

    perform
    create-email-campaign
  • Create or Update Contact

    perform
    create-or-update-contact

+17 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Constant Contact, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Constant Contact. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "create-contact",
  payload: {
    emailAddress: "<value>",
    // permissionToSend: "<value>",
    // createSource: "<value>",
    // firstName: "<value>",
    // lastName: "<value>",
    // jobTitle: "<value>",
    // companyName: "<value>",
    // birthdayMonth: "<value>",
    // birthdayDay: "<value>",
    // anniversary: "<value>",
    // listMemberships: "<value>",
    // taggings: "<value>",
    // customFields: "<value>",
    // phoneNumbers: "<value>",
    // streetAddresses: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action create-contact --payload '{"emailAddress":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Constant Contact — without giving it Constant Contact's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.constantcontact#add-contacts-to-lists",
    "input": {
      "listIds": "<listIds>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Constant Contact connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Constant Contact's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Constant Contact itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Constant Contact declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Constant Contact platform status

Statuspage-format rollup for status.constantcontact.com, with per-component detail including "API's and Integrations". Unauthenticated and unsigned.

quota

API rate-limit headroom