Constituent

This API manages constituent information and related entities such as addresses, phones, emails, and notes.

POST

Address

Creates a constituent address.

Try it

Request URL

Request headers

Header Required Type Description
Content-Type string Media type of the body sent to the API.
Bb-Api-Subscription-Key Property is required string Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.
Authorization Property is required string OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code.

Request body

An object that represents the address to create.

{
  "address_lines": "410 18th Street",
  "city": "Denver",
  "constituent_id": "280",
  "country": "United States",
  "county": "Denver",
  "do_not_mail": false,
  "end": "2025-03-26T00:00:00Z",
  "postal_code": "80209-4402",
  "preferred": true,
  "seasonal_end": {
    "m": 8,
    "d": 26
  },
  "seasonal_start": {
    "m": 6,
    "d": 12
  },
  "start": "2003-03-26T00:00:00Z",
  "state": "CO",
  "type": "Home"
}
{
  "description": "Addresses store information about constituent residences and other addresses along with information about where or whether to send mail.",
  "required": [
    "constituent_id",
    "type"
  ],
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "address_lines": {
      "description": "The address lines. Character limit: 150.",
      "maxLength": 150,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "city": {
      "description": "The city of the address.  Do not use in combination with the <code>suburb</code> property. Character limit: 50.",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "constituent_id": {
      "description": "The immutable system record ID of the constituent associated with the address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "country": {
      "description": "The country of the address, can be the country's ID, name, or abbreviation.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "county": {
      "description": "The county of the address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "do_not_mail": {
      "description": "Indicates whether the constituent requests not to be contacted at this address.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "end": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date when the constituent ceased to reside at this address. Uses <a href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339\">ISO-8601 format: </a><i>1969-11-21T10:29:43</i>.",
      "type": "string",
      "x-supports-datetime-offset": false
    },
    "postal_code": {
      "description": "The postal code of the address. Character limit: 12.",
      "maxLength": 12,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "preferred": {
      "description": "Indicates whether this is the constituent's preferred address.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "seasonal_end": {
      "description": "The time of the year ceases to reside at this address.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "d": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The day in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "m": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The month in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "y": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The year in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "x-display-name": "Fuzzy date",
      "x-display-id": "FuzzyDate"
    },
    "seasonal_start": {
      "description": "The time of year that the constituent begins residing at this address.",
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "d": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The day in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "m": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The month in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "y": {
          "format": "int32",
          "description": "The year in the fuzzy date.",
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "x-display-name": "Fuzzy date",
      "x-display-id": "FuzzyDate"
    },
    "start": {
      "format": "date-time",
      "description": "The date when the constituent began residing at this address. Uses <a href=\"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339\">ISO-8601 format: </a><i>1969-11-21T10:29:43</i>.",
      "type": "string",
      "x-supports-datetime-offset": false
    },
    "state": {
      "description": "The state of the address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "suburb": {
      "description": "The suburb of the address. Do not use in combination with the <code>city</code> property.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "description": "The address type. Available values are the entries in the <a href=\"https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/docs/services/56b76470069a0509c8f1c5b3/operations/ListAddressTypes\"><b>Address Types</b></a> table.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "information_source": {
      "description": "The information source for the address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lot": {
      "description": "The Line of Travel (LOT) for the address.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "cart": {
      "description": "The Carrier Route (CART) for the address.",
      "maxLength": 20,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "dpc": {
      "description": "The Delivery Point Code (DPC) for the address.",
      "maxLength": 8,
      "minLength": 0,
      "type": "string"
    },
    "region": {
      "description": "The region for the address.",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "x-hidden": true,
  "x-display-name": "Create address",
  "x-display-id": "CreateAddress",
  "x-additional-info": "\r\n<p>Some <b>Address</b> entity properties include international address support.</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"table-responsive\">\r\n    <table class=\"table table-striped table-hover\">\r\n        <thead>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <th><strong>Property</strong></th>\r\n                <th><strong>United States</strong></th>\r\n                <th><strong>Canada</strong></th>\r\n                <th><strong>United Kingdom</strong></th>\r\n                <th><strong>Australia</strong></th>\r\n                <th><strong>New Zealand</strong></th>\r\n            </tr>\r\n        </thead>\r\n        <tbody>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>address_lines</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>city</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i>*</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>suburb</td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>state</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i>!</td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>postal_code</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>county</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n                <td></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n            <tr>\r\n                <td>country</td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n                <td><i class=\"fa fa-check\"></i></td>\r\n            </tr>\r\n        </tbody>\r\n    </table>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\r\n    <p class=\"footnote\">* <b>Australia</b> &mdash; For <code>GET</code> operations, the <code>city</code> property returns city or suburb data. For <code>POST</code> and <code>PATCH</code> operations, you can use either the <code>suburb</code> or <code>city</code> properties, but not both. An error occurs if you provide values for both properties.</p>\r\n    <p class=\"footnote\">! <b>Canada</b> &mdash; Use the <code>state</code> property to track provinces.</p>\r\n</div>"
}

Response 200 OK

Returned when the operation successfully creates an address. The response body contains the ID of the new address.

{
  "id": "1281"
}
{
  "description": "Defines the shape of a post response object.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "description": "The newly created ID",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "x-hidden": true
}

Response 400 Bad Request

Returned when the request body is not in the appropriate format.

Response 403 Forbidden

Returned when the user does not have permission to create the address.

Response 404 Not Found

Returned when the specified constituent is not found.

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X POST "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses?" + queryString;

            // Request body
            byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");

            using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
            {
               content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
               var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
            }

        }
    }
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
            request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
            request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");

            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity)); 
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };

        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
            },
            type: "POST",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

    NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];

    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
    [_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);

        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }

        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }

        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }

    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
   'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
   'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
   'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/constituent/v1/addresses?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/constituent/v1/addresses?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/constituent/v1/addresses')

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)

# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'

# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

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