Look up field names and tag IDs

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Hi everyone—I’m new to using APIs in general so forgive me if I ask something dumb. I can’t seem to find a place to look up the field names or the tag ids that I need to use in my API requests. When I look up the fields in the Activecampaign web app, all I get are the “human readable” names e.g. “First Name” instead of first_name. Is there a standard convention for these? Also, where do I find the ids for tags? Do I need to just pull contacts via the API and look at the data I get back?

Thanks!

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Hi synthase,

I am not sure I understand the first part of your question.

However, in answer to the second part of your question there are two ways of doing this:

  1. If you want to know the ID of a tag, you will find it at the end of the URL if you click on the tag in the app itself. E.g. https://stratnavapp.activehosted.com/app/contacts/?tagid=172 - the tag is at the end.
  2. That doesn’t work for everything, so I often run API queries using a tool like PostMan (https://www.postman.com/) to look up the data I get back - that way know what what the actual JSON structure is, and what values there are - and its easy to try things out before you start building.
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Thanks so much—that’s super helpful. You can ignore the question about the standard convention—I was just wondering if there was a shortcut to get to the JSON-formatted field names from the names that show up in the web app (e.g. all lowercase; spaces are always replaced by underscores). It sounds like just pulling data and looking at it will be the most robust way of doing things, and Postman will save a lot of time compared to the way I was doing it.