Retrieving SendGrid Transactional Templates List

Question

I have been trying to retrieve list of SendGrid transactional templates using API. I'm using correct API key and getting an empty array while there are about 5 transactional templates existing in my SendGrid account. Here is the response:

{
  "templates": []
}

Any guesses what could be wrong?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '19 at 04:33

Any guesses what could be wrong?

Yep, their documentation could be!

I also stuck with the problem and finally managed to solve it once I opened the devtools and saw how they request their own API from the UI. Long story short - one has to pass additional generations=dynamic query parameter. Here is the C# code I use:

            var client = new SendGridClient("key");
            var response = await client.RequestAsync(
                SendGridClient.Method.GET, 
                urlPath: "/templates",
                queryParams: "{\"generations\": \"dynamic\"}");

The documentation explicitly says that it will default to `legacy` and not `dynamic`. — Oskar, Feb 02 '21 at 09:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '19 at 14:59

Using Api 7.3.0 PHP

require("../../sendgrid-php.php"); 
$apiKey = getenv('SENDGRID_API_KEY');
$sg = new \SendGrid($apiKey);

#Comma-delimited list specifying which generations of templates to return. Options are legacy, dynamic or legacy,dynamic
    $query_params = json_decode('{"generations": "legacy,dynamic"}');
    try {
        #$response = $sg->client->templates()->get();
        $response = $sg->client->templates()->get(null, $query_params);

        echo $response->body();
        exit;
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo '{"error":"Caught exception: '. $e->getMessage().'"}';

    }

Sergio Morstabilini · Answer 3 · 2022-09-01T14:59:02.510

I had the same problem using the python wrapper provided by Sendgrid. My code was similar to this:

response = SendGridAPIClient(<your api key>).client.templates.get({'generations': 'legacy,dynamic'})

This returned an empty array.

To fix you have to name the param or to pass None before the dict:

response = SendGridAPIClient(<your api key>).client.templates.get(None, {'generations': 'legacy,dynamic'})

or

response = SendGridAPIClient(<your api key>).client.templates.get(query_params={'generations': 'legacy,dynamic'})

Retrieving SendGrid Transactional Templates List

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