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  • Delete a webhook subscription
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Channels API

Channels API overview

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The Bird Channels API is an omnichannel messaging solution to allow customers to send and receive messages to multiple different messaging services. This includes SMS, Email and WhatsApp. See .

To get started with the Channels API you can register for a free account and install your

Next check out the for sending messages and managing channels

Permissions required for Channel actions

To manage channels, create channel connectors or send messages via the API the access key that is being used needs a certain level of to carry out these actions.

The examples below give your access key permissions to all channels in all of your workspaces but you replace the wildcards with either specific workspace or channel ids to limit the scope further

Replace any instance of {organizationId} with your Bird organization id

Channel Viewer

An example of the resource permissions that are required to view a list of all channels, specific channels, channel messages, webhooks and uploaded media create an access policy that allows view as follows:

Action
Resource

List all channels

/workspaces/*/channels

Get a specific channel

/workspaces/*/channels/*

Get all messages for a channel

/workspaces/*/channels/*/messages

Get a specific message for a channel

/workspaces/*/channels/*/messages/*

Get all interactions that have happened to a message

/workspaces/*/channels/*/messages/*/interactions

Get outgoing media to channels

/workspaces/*/channels/*/media/*

Get media attached to incoming messages

/workspaces/*/messages/*/media/*

List webhook subscriptions

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions

Get a specific webhook subscription

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions/*

List available webhook events

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions

Get webhook subscription logs

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions/*/logs

Get webhook log details by request id

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions/*/logs/details

Message sending and status updates

To send messages to a channel and subscribe to status update create an access policy that allows create as follows:

Action
Resource

Create a new message

/workspaces/*/channels/*/messages

Upload media

/workspaces/*/channels/*/presigned-upload

Create a webhook subscription

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions

Updating channel settings and webhook subscriptions

To update settings for a channel or update a webhook subscription create an access policy that allows update as follows:

Action
Resource

Update channel settings

/workspaces/*/channels/*

Update a webhook subscription

/organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions/*

Delete a webhook subscription

To delete a webhook subscription reate an access policy that allows delete as follows:

Action
Resource

Delete a webhook subscription

organizations/{organizationId}/workspaces/*/webhook-subscriptions/*

Connector installation

Channels are created by first installing a new connector. Connectors are responsible for linking the Bird platform to third party platforms. To create a connector create an access policy that allows create as follows:

Action
Resource

Create a new connector

/workspaces/*/connectors

Connector viewer

To view connectors that are installed in a workspace and check the health of the connectors create an access policy that allow view as follows:

Action
Resource

List all connectors

/workspaces/*/connectors

Get a specific connector

/workspaces/*/connectors/*

Get connector health

/workspaces/*/connectors/*/status

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