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+title: "Introducing: EmailLabsClient"
+date: 2008-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
+draft: false
+needs_review: true
+canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/introducing-email-labs-client/
+---
+
+On my latest project, the client is using
+[EmailLabs](http://www.emaillabs.com/) to manage their mailing lists. To
+simplify interaction with their system, we've created
+[EmailLabsClient](https://github.com/vigetlabs/email_labs_client/tree/master),
+a small Ruby client for the EmailLabs API. The core of the program is
+the `send_request` method:
+
+``` {#code .ruby}
+def self.send_request(request_type, activity) xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new :target => (input = '') xml.instruct! xml.DATASET do xml.SITE_ID SITE_ID yield xml end Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(ENDPOINT), :type => request_type, :activity => activity, :input => input) end 
+```
+
+Then you can make API requests like this:
+
+``` {#code .ruby}
+def self.subscribe_user(mailing_list, email_address) send_request('record', 'add') do |body| body.MLID mailing_list body.DATA email_address, :type => 'email' end end 
+```
+
+If you find yourself needing to work with an EmailLabs mailing list,
+check it out. At the very least, you should get a decent idea of how to
+interact with their API. It's up on
+[GitHub](https://github.com/vigetlabs/email_labs_client/tree/master), so
+if you add any functionality, send those patches our way.