# API Example

## Send a transactional message

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://txnhog.co/txn/api/your_message_key`

API POST Example for sending a transactional message. This is a simple example of sending a name, email, and phone number to the transactional template. The API accepts only string values, as application/json or application/x-www-form-urlencoded.\
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When using an email template, the parameter "email" is required, and when using an sms template, the parameter "phone" is required.

#### Request Body

| Name   | Type   | Description                                                                                                               |
| ------ | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| apiKey | string | Your API key, listed below each of your transactional messages. This key is private, and should only be used server-side. |
| name   | string | Name of the person receiving the transactional message. Exposed in your template with the {{name}} tag                    |
| email  | string | Exposed in your template with the {{email}} tag. Required if sending an email.                                            |
| phone  | string | Exposed in your template with the {{phone}} tag. Required if sending an sms.                                              |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Cake successfully retrieved." %}

```
{    "name": "Cake's name",    "recipe": "Cake's recipe name",    "cake": "Binary cake"}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="404 Could not find a cake matching this query." %}

```
{    "message": "Ain't no cake like that."}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

You can POST any key/value pair of up to 1400 characters each. This allows for variables to insert password reset links, image urls, just about anything. Note that HTML will be sanitized and encoded.


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