instantly-hello-world

Create a minimal working Instantly.ai example with real API calls. Use when starting a new Instantly integration, testing your setup, or learning basic Instantly API v2 patterns. Trigger with phrases like "instantly hello world", "instantly example", "instantly quick start", "simple instantly code", "test instantly api".

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Instantly Hello World

Overview

Minimal working example that lists your campaigns, checks email account health, and pulls campaign analytics — all using real Instantly API v2 endpoints.

Prerequisites

Completed instantly-install-auth setup
At least one email account connected in Instantly
INSTANTLY_API_KEY environment variable set

Instructions

Step 1: List Your Campaigns

import { instantly } from "./src/instantly";

interface Campaign {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  status: number; // 0=Draft, 1=Active, 2=Paused, 3=Completed
}

const STATUS_LABELS: Record<number, string> = {
  0: "Draft", 1: "Active", 2: "Paused", 3: "Completed",
  4: "Running Subsequences", [-99]: "Suspended",
  [-1]: "Accounts Unhealthy", [-2]: "Bounce Protect",
};

async function listCampaigns() {
  const campaigns = await instantly<Campaign[]>("/campaigns?limit=10");

  console.log(`Found ${campaigns.length} campaigns:\n`);
  for (const c of campaigns) {
    console.log(`  ${c.name} [${STATUS_LABELS[c.status] ?? c.status}] — ${c.id}`);
  }
  return campaigns;
}

Step 2: Check Email Account Health

interface Account {
  email: string;
  status: number;
  warmup_status: string;
  daily_limit: number | null;
}

async function checkAccounts() {
  const accounts = await instantly<Account[]>("/accounts?limit=5");

  console.log(`\nEmail Accounts (${accounts.length}):`);
  for (const a of accounts) {
    console.log(`  ${a.email} — status: ${a.status}, warmup: ${a.warmup_status}, daily_limit: ${a.daily_limit}`);
  }

  // Test vitals for the first account
  if (accounts.length > 0) {
    const vitals = await instantly("/accounts/test/vitals", {
      method: "POST",
      body: JSON.stringify({ accounts: [accounts[0].email] }),
    });
    console.log(`\nVitals for ${accounts[0].email}:`, JSON.stringify(vitals, null, 2));
  }
}

Step 3: Pull Campaign Analytics

async function getAnalytics(campaignId: string) {
  const stats = await instantly<{
    campaign_id: string;
    total_leads: number;
    leads_contacted: number;
    emails_sent: number;
    emails_opened: number;
    emails_replied: number;
    emails_bounced: number;
  }>(`/campaigns/analytics?id=${campaignId}`);

  console.log(`\nCampaign Analytics:`);
  console.log(`  Leads: ${stats.total_leads} total, ${stats.leads_contacted} contacted`);
  console.log(`  Sent: ${stats.emails_sent}`);
  console.log(`  Opened: ${stats.emails_opened} (${((stats.emails_opened / stats.emails_sent) * 100).toFixed(1)}%)`);
  console.log(`  Replied: ${stats.emails_replied} (${((stats.emails_replied / stats.emails_sent) * 100).toFixed(1)}%)`);
  console.log(`  Bounced: ${stats.emails_bounced}`);
}

Step 4: Run It All

async function main() {
  console.log("=== Instantly API v2 Hello World ===\n");

  const campaigns = await listCampaigns();
  await checkAccounts();

  if (campaigns.length > 0) {
    await getAnalytics(campaigns[0].id);
  }

  console.log("\nDone! Your Instantly connection is working.");
}

main().catch(console.error);

Quick Test with curl

set -euo pipefail
# List campaigns
curl -s https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/campaigns?limit=3 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $INSTANTLY_API_KEY" | jq '.[] | {name, status, id}'

# List email accounts
curl -s https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/accounts?limit=3 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $INSTANTLY_API_KEY" | jq '.[] | {email, status}'

Output

List of campaigns with names and statuses
Email account health overview
Campaign analytics summary (open rate, reply rate, bounce count)
Confirmation that Instantly API v2 is reachable

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Solution
`401 Unauthorized`	Bad API key	Regenerate in Settings > Integrations
`403 Forbidden`	Missing `campaigns:read` scope	Edit API key scopes
Empty campaign list	No campaigns created yet	Create one in the Instantly dashboard first
`429 Too Many Requests`	Rate limited	Wait and retry with backoff

Resources

Next Steps

Proceed to instantly-core-workflow-a to build a full campaign launch workflow.

Repository: jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Commit: 3e83543

Last updated: 2 days ago
Created: 2 days ago

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