RSSAweber Needs an API
Dec 23
AWeber, Development, Marketing autoresponders, aweber Comments Off
My friend Antone Roundy talks about what’s right … and wrong … with Aweber in this post.
UPDATE: AWeber has an API!
Let me add one to it: Aweber needs an API.
(an API – or application programmiong interface – is a way for programmers to write software that talks to each other.)
Not only don’t they have one, but they shut people down for “scripting” the form.
Yes, they need the users IP address, but they can get that when they click on the confirm link … like the rest of their competitors do.
Most other autoresponders out there make integration easy with simple API capability: GetResponse, iContact, even MailChimp.
Their alternative “email parser” works – usually. But it’s a pain to setup and seems flaky, not always processing the messages sent to it.
A simple API to add subscribers would sure make things a LOT easier to integrate.
That said, I do have a whole series of Aweber based solutions – mostly for Joomla, but some training videos as well – on the Intellispire site.