# Newsletter routes: import, send

URL: /code/api/newsletter/verbs · Id: `page:code/api/newsletter/verbs`

> The Newsletter Verbs import, send as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Newsletter](/business/nouns/newsletter), one group of [Newsletter routes](/code/api/newsletter).

### Newsletter.import
Import adds subscribers from a CSV File, keeping each one’s consent basis and the date they subscribed. [Verb page](/business/nouns/newsletter/import?interface=api).

```text
POST /{namespace}/newsletters/{newsletter}/import
```

Path: `newsletter`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits [`Newsletter.imported`](/business/events/Newsletter.imported).

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `newsletter` | [Newsletter](/business/nouns/newsletter) | Yes | The Newsletter. |
| `file` | [File](/business/nouns/file) | Yes | The CSV, one subscriber per row. |
| `basis` | `string` | Yes | How they consented, as the old tool recorded it. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `newsletter` | [Newsletter](/business/nouns/newsletter) | Yes | The Newsletter, with its new subscribers counted. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |
| A row with no email, and skips a suppressed address | [`refused`](/code/api/errors/refused) | Clear what the check names, then call it again. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/newsletters/newsletter_FLjN3aQujc/import \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"file":"file_V1AuhyCTsH","basis":"Example basis"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "newsletter": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/newsletters/newsletter_FLjN3aQujc",
    "$type": "Newsletter",
    "name": "Leaseline notes",
    "from": "mailbox_93HvOnR17L"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Newsletter.import",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### Newsletter.send
Send emails one issue, a piece of Content, to every subscribed Contact, and a paid issue only to those whose Offer covers it. [Verb page](/business/nouns/newsletter/send?interface=api).

```text
POST /{namespace}/newsletters/{newsletter}/send
```

Path: `newsletter`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits [`Newsletter.sent`](/business/events/Newsletter.sent).

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `newsletter` | [Newsletter](/business/nouns/newsletter) | Yes | The Newsletter. |
| `content` | [Content](/business/nouns/content) | Yes | The issue to send. |
| `at` | `datetime` | No | When to send it. Unset: now. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `newsletter` | [Newsletter](/business/nouns/newsletter) | Yes | The Newsletter, with the issue in its archive. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/newsletters/newsletter_FLjN3aQujc/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"content":"content_HYlnoorBdP"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "newsletter": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/newsletters/newsletter_FLjN3aQujc",
    "$type": "Newsletter",
    "name": "Leaseline notes",
    "from": "mailbox_93HvOnR17L"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Newsletter.send",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```