Mailchimp retrieve lists

Retrieves Mailchimp lists.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
API Key

Specify the Mailchimp API Key.

  1. Open your Mailchimp account, and click on My Account > Account Settings.
  2. Select the Extras tab and click on API keys.
  3. Beneath the Your API keys heading, you may need to create a new key. Click on Create A Key, and an API Key will be generated.
List ID(s)

Specify one or more list IDs. Separate each list ID with a new line, comma, or space. All lists matching single IDs will be returned.

To find a list ID, view the list name and defaults under the list settings in Mailchimp.

Example specifying two list IDs: 37e4bce73e,46b5cba92d
Exact

Filter results on List name, From name, and From email using one of the following options:

  • Yes: Limit results to lists that exactly match specified values for indicated fields.
  • No: Limit results to lists that either contain or exactly match specified values for indicated fields.
List name

Specify a list name filter. Use Exact to configure how results are filtered for this value.

From name

Specify a filter for the “from name” list setting. Use Exact to configure how results are filtered for this value.
From email

Specify a filter for the “from email” list setting. Use Exact to configure how results are filtered for this value.
Created before

Specify a “before” filter for list creation date. All lists created before this date will be returned.
Created after

Specify an “after” filter for list creation date. All lists created after this date will be returned.
Time zone

Specify the time zone for the Created before and Created after filters.
Sort by date created

Select the desired option:

  • Yes: Sort results by creation date.
  • No: Sort results by display order used in the Mailchimp web application.

Default: Yes.
Sort direction

Select the desired option for order of sorting:

  • Ascending: Sort results in ascending order .
  • Descending: Sort results in descending order.

Default: Ascending.
Maximum results

Specify the maximum number of results to return.

Default: 25.
Activate the archive bar

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store whether or not campaign archives are turned on for each list.

Beamer address

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the email address used for each list's email beamer.
Date created

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the date on which each list was created.
Default from email

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the default “from email” setting for campaigns using each list.
Default from name

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the default “from name” setting for campaigns using each list.
Default language

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the default language for each list's form.
Default subject

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the default subject line for campaigns using each list.
Email format supported

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the email format supported (either multiple formats or only HTML).
ID

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store each list ID.
List rating

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store an auto-generated activity score for each list (0 - 5).
Name

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the name of each list.
Subscribe url (long)

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the full version of each list's subscribe URL.
Subscribe url (short)

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the Mailchimp EepURL, which is the shortened version of each list's subscription form URL.
Visibility

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the visibility setting (public or private) of each list.
Number of matching list

Specify a numeric variable to store the total number of lists that matched the provided filters.
Result as XML

Specify a text variable to store the results in XML format.
Result count

Specify a numeric variable to store the number of results.
For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.