Front API - Source Code
The Front REST API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Front with other applications. Some example API methods include managing teams and teammates, listing and retrieving inboxes, and retrieving and sending messages. Front is a shared inbox platform for teams to collaborate over email, text, and social media.

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![]() | Front Events Curl Sample Code | The Front Events Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement an event feature. Type of events include assign, unassign, archive, reopen, trash, restore, comment, mention, inbound, outbound, move, tag, untag, send error, reminder, out reply, and merged conversations. |
![]() | Front Exports Curl Sample Code | The Front Exports Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to generate data exports for a specific timeframe and/or specific inboxes, teammates or tags. |
![]() | Front File Upload Curl Sample Code | The Front File Upload Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to work with JSON format and use the endpoints available to send a message, reply to a conversation, receive a custom message, import a message, create a contact, and update a contact. |
![]() | Front Attachments Curl Sample Code | The Front Attachments Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement a message feature into email applications. If the attachment is inline, the property metadata.cid will retrieve the HTML tag corresponding to the attachments. |
![]() | Front Analytics Curl Sample Code | The Front Analytics Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to obtain statistics about activities happening in Front. Developers need to requests the corresponding metrics of the analytics. |
![]() | Front Topics Curl Sample Code | The Front Topics Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement topics, a kind of tag that links to an external platform. |
![]() | Front Tags Curl Sample Code | The Front Tags Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement tags, labels to classify conversations. A tag has an optional highlight field which represents the color to highlight the tag. Colors include grey, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, and purple. |
![]() | Front Contacts Curl Sample Code | The Front Contacts Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement a contact feature that includes several handles to send messages. A handle has a source to identify which inbox can send a message to this contact. |
![]() | Front Messages Curl Sample Code | The Front Messages Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement messages, resources that can be either received or sent via an inbox. Messages are grouped by conversations. |
![]() | Front Comments Curl Sample Code | The Front Comments Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement comments, a private message written by a teammate visible only to the other teammates. It cannot be shared outside of Front. |
![]() | Front Conversations Curl Sample Code | The Front Conversations Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to implement conversation features into email applications. Users can open conversations in one or more inboxes, however, even if a conversation message has multiple recipients, the conversation resource will always have only one. |
![]() | Front Channels Curl Sample Code | The Front Channels Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to use channels, resources that can send and receive messages. Existing channel types include SMTP, IMAP, Twilio, Twitter, Facebook, Smooch, and Intercom. |
![]() | Front Teams Curl Sample Code | The Front Teams Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to use a GET verb to use the endpoint teams. With an HTTP request, developers can list the teams in a company. |
![]() | Front Authentication Curl Sample Code | The Front Authentication Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to use a Jason Web Token to authenticate the API. Developers can send the token (preceeded by bearer) for each request. |
![]() | Front Token Identity Curl Sample Code | The Front Token Identity Curl Sample Code demonstrates how to identify teammates with email, channels with address, contacts with their source and handle, and messages with UID. |