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/v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/preview
bird email templates preview <template-ref> --body-file - <<'JSON'
{
  "content": {
    "subject": "Welcome to Acme, {{ bird.contact.first_name }}!",
    "preview_text": "{{ bird.contact.first_name }}, your order is on its way",
    "html": "<h1>Hi {{ bird.contact.first_name }}</h1>"
  },
  "parameters": {
    "bird": {
      "contact": {
        "first_name": "Ada"
      }
    },
    "animal": "otter"
  },
  "contact": "con_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg",
  "language": "pt-BR",
  "version": "emv_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg"
}
JSON
Réponse200
{
  "language": "pt-BR",
  "variables": [
    {
      "type": "code"
    }
  ],
  "compatibility_severity": "warning",
  "compatibility": [
    {
      "rule_id": "css_display_flex_grid",
      "severity": "warning",
      "language": "pt-BR",
      "field": "html",
      "message": "`display: flex` and `grid` don't work in Outlook (Windows/Windows Mail).",
      "fix": "Use tables for layout.",
      "partial": "Partial support for `display: flex` and `grid` in Gmail (iOS/Android).",
      "line": 14,
      "column": 6,
      "match": "display: flex",
      "unsupported_clients": [
        {
          "family": "outlook",
          "platforms": [
            "windows",
            "windows_mail"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "partial_clients": [
        {
          "family": "outlook",
          "platforms": [
            "windows",
            "windows_mail"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Renders a template with the sample values you supply and returns the resulting subject, HTML, and plain-text bodies. Bird does not issue a recipient-specific unsubscribe URL in a preview. If you supply bird.unsubscribe_url in parameters, the preview renders your value; an empty link is not live. Bird adds unsubscribe content to marketing email at send time; transactional email gets no automatic unsubscribe footer. By default it renders the current draft, so you can check your changes before you submit it. Pass version to preview a specific published version instead; built-in system templates have no versions, so version on a bird_ template returns a validation error. Pass contact to see the email the way one of your contacts would receive it. Works for your workspace templates and built-in system templates. Sample parameters are capped at 16 KB once serialized, and personalization that is not valid or not supported returns a validation error naming what to fix. The response also reports what the HTML uses that mail clients remove, ignore, or render inconsistently. Each finding in compatibility names the pattern, the line and column it sits on, and what to use instead, and compatibility_severity reduces them to one word for the whole body. It is advisory: the preview renders either way.

Paramètres

template_refstring

The template to preview: a workspace template's id (emt_…) or slug, or a built-in system template's bird_ slug.

Corps de la requête

content
object

Render this content rather than the template's stored draft. It is what an editor uses to show a change as it is made, since nothing has to be saved first.

The content is treated exactly as a draft would be: personalization is filled in the same way, a plain-text body is derived from the HTML when you omit it, and content that could not be published is refused with the same error. version asks for a published version's own content, so the two cannot be combined.

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parameters
object

Sample values for the variables the template uses, for this one preview only. A variable takes its value under its own name. A bird. value nests to match the token, so {"bird": {"contact": {"first_name": "Ada"}}} fills {{ bird.contact.first_name }}.

A preview is more forgiving than a send: a parameter you leave out renders as empty here rather than being rejected. parameters is capped at 16 KB once serialized.

contact
string

Render the template the way this contact would receive it. Every {{ bird.contact.… }} token takes its value from the contact's record, narrowed to the attributes the template reads and filled from each property's fallback_value where the contact holds no value: the same values a broadcast to this contact would send.

Values are read as the contact stands right now, so a preview reflects an edit to their record as soon as you make it. A bird.contact.… value you also pass in parameters wins for that one attribute, so you can preview a contact with one field changed without editing them.

language
string

Which of the template's languages to render. Omit it to render the default language. When the template does not have the language you ask for, its own on_missing_language setting decides whether a close match is rendered instead or the request is rejected. It is the same choice the send makes.

version
string

Preview a specific published version by its id, instead of the current draft.

Contenu de la réponse

editor_url
string

Optional link to open the saved draft in the browser editor, in the language this preview rendered. Absent for built-in templates, published-version previews, and previews of unsaved content.

subject
nullable string
obligatoire

The rendered subject line. Null when the template has no subject.

html
nullable string
obligatoire

The rendered HTML body. Null when the template has no HTML body.

text
nullable string
obligatoire

The rendered plain-text body. Derived from the HTML when the template has no separate plain-text body, and null when it has neither.

language
string
obligatoire

The language this preview rendered. It differs from the language you asked for when the template does not have that one and a close match was served instead.

variables
array of object
obligatoire

Every input definition this content uses, in one list: the parameters you fill in with parameters, and the values Bird fills in for each recipient. Read system to tell them apart. This list covers only the language named by language. A version read combines the inputs from every language the version holds. Preview each language separately to see its own. You can nest sample values under bird in preview parameters; sends reject that reserved namespace.

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compatibility_severity
string
obligatoire

The worst severity across every finding the response was computed from, which is the authoritative reading: a response that caps how many findings it lists still accounts here for the ones it left out. Each response's compatibility says which content it covered.

  • problem: at least one finding is a problem.
  • warning: every finding is a warning.
  • none: there are no findings.

Possible values: problem, warning, none

compatibility
array of object
obligatoire

What the previewed HTML uses that mail clients remove, ignore, or render inconsistently, in the order the patterns appear. Empty when nothing is worth reporting. Line and column count in the content.html you supplied, or in the template's own HTML when you supplied none, so they address the source rather than the rendered output. Previewing a published version is the exception: where the stored version keeps no authored copy of a language the publish step rewrote, the positions count in that rewritten body, which no response returns. A preview renders either way. At most 200 findings come back, the first 200 in source order; compatibility_severity is derived from every finding the HTML produced, including any beyond those 200.

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