Post an email to Front public API

post_email_public_api.js

var https = require('https'),
    url = require('url');

// your credentials
var apiKey = '*** YOUR API KEY ***',
    companySlug = '*** YOUR COMPANY SLUG ***';

// Build the first request to retrieve all your inboxes
var listInboxesOptions = {
  host: 'webhooks.frontapp.com',
  path: '/api/1/inboxes',
  auth: companySlug + ':' + apiKey,
  method: 'GET'
};

function getInboxList(done) {
  var req = https.request(listInboxesOptions, function (res) {
    if (res.statusCode !== 200)
      return done('ERROR');

    var chunks = [];
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
      chunks.push(new Buffer(chunk));
    });

    res.on('end', function() {
      var body = Buffer.concat(chunks).toString();
      done(null, JSON.parse(body));
    });
  });

  req.end();
}

// build the second request to post an email

var data = {
  from: 'jhon.doe@somemail.com',
  subject: 'test email',
  text_body: 'Just a test, you can safely delete me !'
};

var dataString = JSON.stringify(data);

var postEmailOptions = {
  auth: companySlug + ':' + apiKey,
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Content-Length': dataString.length
  }
};

function postMessage(route, done) {
  // parse the target url,
  var routeInfo = url.parse(route);

  postEmailOptions.host = routeInfo.hostname;
  postEmailOptions.port = routeInfo.port;
  postEmailOptions.path = routeInfo.path;

  var req = https.request(postEmailOptions, function (res) {
    if (res.statusCode === 200)
      return done(null);
    else
      return done('ERROR');
  });

  req.write(dataString);

  req.end();
}

getInboxList(function (err, inboxList) {
  if (err)
    return console.log(err);

  // inboxList will be:
  // [
  //   alias: 'support',
  //   name: 'Support',
  //   type: 'imap',
  //   address: 'suport@mycompany.com',
  //   links: {
  //     messages: 'webhooks.frontapp.com/api/1/inboxes/support/messages',
  //     inbox: 'webhooks.frontapp.com/api/1/inboxes/support'
  //   }
  // ]

  postMessage(inboxList[0].links.messages, function (err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      process.exit(1);
    }

    console.log('OK');
    process.exit(0)
  });
});