Freshsales is a ruby wrapper around Freshsales API
gem install freshsales
A Freshsales account and an API key. You can set your API key here.
https://yourdomain.freshsales.io/personal-settings/api-settings
# given https://yourdomain.freshsales.io/ and your API key
freshsales = Freshsales::API.new(freshsales_domain: "yourdomain", freshsales_apikey: "...")
Freshsales expose resources using a RESTful API allowing to CRUD those resources. It also provides extra features such as search.
Inspired by gibbon, this library provides a simple dynamic language to construct the URLs required to query those resources.
E.g. freshsales.leads.post(body: requestbody)
would represent a POST /api/leads/
request and return a Freshsale::Response
instance.
The json data (requestbody
) can be passed as string or Hashes.
The received json data can be obtained as raw or Hashes (with symbolized keys or not).
email = "[email protected]"
lead_data = %({"lead":{"last_name":"Sampleton (sample)", "email": "#{email}"}})
# Create lead
result = freshsales.leads.post(body: lead_data)
lead_id = result.body['lead']['id']
updated_lead_data = %({"lead":{"mobile_number":"1-926-555-9999", "email": "#{email}"}})
# Read the lead
freshsales.leads(lead_id).get.body
# Update the lead
freshsales.leads(lead_id).put(body: updated_lead_data).body
# Search the lead by email
sample = freshsales.search.get(params: {include: "lead", q: email}).body.first
# Delete it
freshsales.leads(lead_id).delete
filters = freshsales.contacts.filters.get
view_id = filters.body['filters'].select{|f| "All Contacts" == f['name'] }.first['id']
Some resources are paginated and controlled by the per_page
and page
parameters.
While you can return individual pages like this:
freshsales.contacts.view(view_id).get(params: {"per_page": 100, "page": 2}).body
the library also allows to iterate over all pages either one element at a time or one page at a time, lazily making the requests for the different pages when required by the client.
freshsales.contacts.view(view_id).get_all.each do |contact|
# do something with this contact, which may come from any page
end
page_params = { "per_page": 100, "sort": "id", "sort_type": "asc", "include": "owner,creater,source"}
freshsales.contacts.view(view_id).get_all_pages(params: page_params).each do |contact_page|
# do something with this page's data which may contain up to 100 contacts and
# their associated owner, creater and source data
end
get_all
and get_all_pages
return a Freshsale::Cursor
whose each
method returns a ruby Enumerator
when no block is given.
tip Enumerators in ruby can be used as Enumerable. This allows you to apply collection operations on them, even chain them, to transform or filter the returned data.
E.g. if you wanted to restrict the number of elements/pages you could do get_all[_pages].each.take(100)[.each]
.
Enable the debug
option (Freshsales::API.new(debug: true)
)
The library is a work in progress. There will be a couple of API changes before the first public version is officially rolled out. Check the issues targeted for the 0.1.0 milestone
If you face an issue similar to this one
SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
your ruby setup to work with OpenSSL probably needs to be fixed.
- On MacOS:
Your version of OpenSSL may be be outdated, make sure you are using the last one.
- On Windows:
A fix to the issue stated above has been found on StackOverflow. If you follow the steps described in this topic, you will most likely get rid of this issue.