topic Re: Create a marketing event in APIs & Integrations

Create a marketing event

kawsar-hamid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:56:41 GMT

Hello,

I have been trying to create a marketing event by following this API - https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/marketing/marketing-events.

The response I get is "{"status":"error","message":"Unable to deduce app-id from this request.","correlationId":"fdd2afbf-7d97-4462-bff6-4933f2860a8f"}"

Here is the request payload-

POST /marketing/v3/marketing-events-beta/events?hapikey={apikey} HTTP/1.1
Host: api.hubapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 969a8735-286d-610d-73a9-0b59099ea6e2

{
"eventName":"Hubspot Marketing Event Dummy",
"eventType":"WEBINAR",
"startDateTime":"2020-11-01T05:00:00.000Z",
"endDateTime":"2020-11-01T06:30:00.000Z",
"eventOrganizer":"Manobyte",
"eventDescription":"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.",
"eventUrl":"https//example.com/marketingevent/%s",
"eventCancelled":false,
"externalAccountId":"1e5e35ed-23d8-4a9e-9477-3395b3fb14fa",
"externalEventId":"17"
}

Please help me to find what is wrong?

Re: Create a marketing event

dennisedson — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:02:24 GMT

Hi @kawsar-hamid ,

Are you still having issues with this? First of all, the JSON you here has an extra ] at the end.

Wondering if @ParkerShort has had a chance to play with this new API, yet and has a suggestion!

Re: Create a marketing event

kawsar-hamid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:56:13 GMT

@dennisedson Yes, still same issue

Re: Create a marketing event

dennisedson — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:14:53 GMT

Hey @kawsar-hamid , are you using your Developer hapikey?

Re: Create a marketing event

kawsar-hamid — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:16:14 GMT

Hello Dennis,

Yes, I am using my developer hpikey.

Re: Create a marketing event

ASavaliya — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:02:41 GMT

Facing same issue.

Is there any solution or work around for this?

Re: Create a marketing event

Caterpy — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:17:12 GMT

I'm also getting this error, is there a solution ?
@kawsar-hamid and @ASavaliya have you managet to find a solution for this ?

Re: Create a marketing event

BCoates — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:29:37 GMT

Did you find a solution to this having same problem

Re: Create a marketing event

Deeptortion — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:14:36 GMT

Can someone please update on this? The issue still persists.

The support team, on reaching out, has the same canned response - and keeps pointing to an unresponsive developer forum on slack. I mean, even on Slack, there's no dedicated support - and mostly just users helping other users out.

Re: Create a marketing event

LHarney — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:18:18 GMT

This occurs when you use the hapi_key. This error does not occur when using OAuth authentication.

Re: Create a marketing event

LHarney — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:35:42 GMT

Can anyone tell me where you can find 'externalAccountId'and 'externalEventId'? Thanks

Re: Create a marketing event

PSayers — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:14:33 GMT

This is still broken when using HAPI key. It's been over a year.

Are there any updates here?

Re: Create a marketing event

danielfrancis — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:52:08 GMT

Hey all!

I am unsure how to make a POST req successfully but I have found a solution to the "app-id" issue.

Instead of using the hapikey to authorize the request, you want to add <Authorization> to your headers as a key. For the value of Authorization, you want to use your applications access token. If you do not have a HubSpot app or are unsure about how to create a HubSpot app, click this link.

After you have your app set up, you can manage access tokens.

The reason for using the apps access token seems to be the response when trying to use the hapikey. Instead of defining the <app-id> somewhere within the query params (as the documentation explains), when you use the access token HubSpot grabs the app-id automatically. Effectively removing the need for an app-id param.

Hope this helps!

Re: Create a marketing event

Jasper_Madrone — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:35:58 GMT

I created an app to help with this if you are interested. It is approved on the HubSpot marketplace, and I think it could help your use case. It allows you have a settings page UI to create events directly in the HubSpot tool without needing to go to the API. I also added a Workflow action that can manage the registration status of contacts for the created events.

Check it out here