Pending messages

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Messages pending reading

This option will allow you to obtain the pending messages to read in Mercado Libre of all the existing orders or only those specified. In addition, you can also define the role of the user for each case, either buyer or seller. To obtain the aforementioned information, you must perform the GET shown below.

Remember that when you check /messages/packs/pack_id/sellers/seller_id the messages will be marked as read. In case you don't want to mark them as read, perform the GET with the mark_as_read = false parameter and the query will be: /messages/packs/pack_id/sellers/seller_id?mark_as_read=false.

Note:

This resource returns up to 1000 (thousand) conversations per request. In case you want to get more, you must mark some as read and make the same request again.

Request:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/unread

Optional parameter

-“role”: “buyer”/”seller”

Errors

Status	Error	Message
400	Messages id empty or invalid	Messages id empty or invalid
400	The specified message id: a does not exists	The specified message id: a does not exists
400	Not allowed messages from multiple orders	Not allowed messages from multiple orders
404	The message with id: a could not be retrieved from storage	The message with id: a could not be retrieved from storage

Pending messages filtered by resource

Request:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/unread/$RESOURCE

Example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/unread/packs/1234/sellers/2345

Response:

{
   "user_id":2345,
   "results":[
      {
         "resource":"/packs/1234/sellers/2345",
         "count":1
      }
   ]
}

Use modes

If you want to get all the orders with messages pending reading as seller, you will need to make this request:

curl -x GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/unread?role=$ROLE

Possible values for ROLE are “buyer” or “seller”.

Note:

In case not specifying a role or that it is invalid (other than “buyer” or “seller”), the resource will return all cases.

Response:

If the API response is satisfactory, you will get a JSON like this:

{
   "user_id":378136913,
   "results":[
      {
         "resource":"/packs/1977056109/sellers/378136913",
         "count":1
      }
   ]
}

In this response, you will see:

ID of user who made request (“user_id”).
Messages pending reading (“count”).
Each available order (“order_id”).

Finally, if there are no messages pending reading for all the user's orders or specific user's orders, or if the user specifies within the “orders_id” parameter those orders that are not part of it, the response will be like this:

{
    "user_id": "1234512314",
    "results": []
}

Note:

This is a private resource, so if you make a call without access_token, you will get error 400.

Mark messages as read

With the next GET you can see messages marked as read.

Request:

curl -X PUT -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/packs/$PACK_ID/sellers/$SELLER_ID

Example:

curl -X GET -H 'Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN' https://api.mercadolibre.com/messages/packs/2000000089077943/sellers/415458330

Response:

{
    "paging": {
        "limit": 2,
        "offset": 1,
        "total": 31
    },
    "conversation_status": {
        "path": "/packs/2000000089077943/seller/415458330",
        "status": "active",
        "substatus": null,
        "status_date": "2019-04-08T16:36:30.000Z",
        "status_update_allowed": false,
        "claim_id": null,
        "shipping_id": null
    },
    "messages": [
        {
            "id": "2c92808469fea23a0169febf14580001",
            "site_id": "MLA",
            "client_id": 123,
            "from": {
                "user_id": "415458330",
                "email": "test_user_83388960@testuser.com",
                "name": "Juan Pablo Robledo"
            },
            "status": "IN_MODERATION",
            "text": "Test message ToUserId",
            "message_date": {
                "received": "2019-04-08T20:58:49.000Z",
                "available": null,
                "notified": null,
                "created": "2019-04-08T20:58:49.000Z",
                "read": "2019-04-08T20:58:52.000Z"
            },
            "message_moderation": {
                "status": "NON_MODERATED",
                "reason": "none",
                "by": "none",
                "moderation_date": null
            },
            "message_attachments": [
                {
                    "filename": "415460047_a96d8dea-38cd-4402-938e-80a1c134fc5d.pdf",
                    "original_filename": "Ayuda-Memoria-Arduino-ELINSI.pdf",
                    "type": "application/octet-stream",
                    "size": 225677,
                    "potential_security_threat": false,
                    "creation_date": "2019-04-08T20:58:49.000Z"
                }
            ],
            "message_resources": [
                {
                    "id": "2000000089077943",
                    "name": "packs"
                },
                {
                    "id": "415458330",
                    "name": "seller"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "2c92808469fea23a0169febdb0570000",
            "site_id": "MLA",
            "client_id": 123,
            "from": {
                "user_id": "415458330",
                "email": "test_user_83388960@testuser.com",
                "name": "Juan Pablo Robledo"
            },
            "status": "IN_MODERATION",
            "text": "Test message ToUserId",
            "message_date": {
                "received": "2019-04-08T20:57:18.000Z",
                "available": null,
                "notified": null,
                "created": "2019-04-08T20:57:18.000Z",
                "read": "2019-04-08T20:57:22.000Z"
            },
            "message_moderation": {
                "status": "NON_MODERATED",
                "reason": "none",
                "by": "none",
                "moderation_date": null
            },
            "message_attachments": [
                {
                    "filename": "415460047_a96d8dea-38cd-4402-938e-80a1c134fc5d.pdf",
                    "original_filename": "Ayuda-Memoria-Arduino-ELINSI.pdf",
                    "type": "application/octet-stream",
                    "size": 225677,
                    "potential_security_threat": false,
                    "creation_date": "2019-04-08T20:57:19.000Z"
                }
            ],
            "message_resources": [
                {
                    "id": "2000000089077943",
                    "name": "packs"
                },
                {
                    "id": "415458330",
                    "name": "seller"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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