How do AI agents use Intercom through Open Connector?

Your user connects Intercom once with one of its cataloged authentication methods. Open Connector stores the credential in an encrypted vault and exposes Intercom tools to your agent over MCP or a typed API, with credentials injected server-side on each call.

Is this a Intercom MCP server?

Yes. Open Connector can serve Intercom as a named MCP server with a scoped allowlist and a per-user connection URL, so any MCP client can call Intercom actions with credentials injected server-side.

Where do Intercom credentials live?

In your own infrastructure. Open Connector keeps credentials in its own vault and injects them at call time, so they never leave your environment.

Intercom integration

Intercom integration for AI agents.

Intercom integration for AI agents with secure authentication and server-side credential injection. Open Connector runs the OAuth, seals the token in an encrypted vault, and serves Intercom tools to your agent over MCP or a typed API — credentials injected server-side, every call audited, nothing leaving your infrastructure. Open source (AGPL-3.0) and self-hostable.

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What your agents can do

Real Intercom actions, managed and audited.

Your user connects Intercom once; your agent can then use the Intercom API to manage conversations, contacts, companies, tickets, admins, help center articles, Fin, segments, tags, and support automation — scoped to the OAuth permissions you grant and the tool allowlist you configure. Every action is least-privilege and written to a tamper-evident audit trail.

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Your user grants Intercom access once (OAuth) — the token lands in the vault.
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Your agent calls a tool over MCP or the typed API; Open Connector injects the credential server-side.
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Every routed call appends a hash-chained audit record — nothing leaves your infra.

Tools & triggers

Supported Intercom tools.

149 tools are generated from the published Intercom catalog. Descriptions are plain text; each action remains subject to its configured authentication and tool allowlist.

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Archive contact: You can archive a single contact.; Contacts
Attach a Contact to a Company: You can attach a company to a single contact.; CompaniesContacts
Attach a contact to a conversation: You can add participants who are contacts to a conversation, on behalf of either another contact or an admin. {% admonition type="warning" name="Contacts without an email" %} If you add a contact via the email parameter and there is no user/lead found on that workspace with he given email, then we will create a new contact with `role` set to `lead`. {% /admonition %}; Conversations
Add subscription to a contact: You can add a specific subscription to a contact. In Intercom, we have two different subscription types based on user consent - opt-out and opt-in: 1.Attaching a contact to an opt-out subscription type will opt that user out from receiving messages related to that subscription type. 2.Attaching a contact to an opt-in subscription type will opt that user in to receiving messages related to that subscription type. This will return a subscription type model for the subscription type that was added to the contact.; Subscription TypesContacts
Add tag to a contact: You can tag a specific contact. This will return a tag object for the tag that was added to the contact.; TagsContacts
Add tag to a conversation: You can tag a specific conversation. This will return a tag object for the tag that was added to the conversation.; TagsConversations
Add tag to a ticket: You can tag a specific ticket. This will return a tag object for the tag that was added to the ticket.; TagsTickets
Block contact: Block a single contact. **Note:** conversations of the contact will also be archived during the process. More details in [FAQ How do I block Inbox spam?](https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/8838656-inbox-faqs); Contacts
Cancel content data export: You can cancel your job; Data Export
Convert a conversation to a ticket: You can convert a conversation to a ticket.; Conversations
Convert a visitor: You can merge a Visitor to a Contact of role type `lead` or `user`. > 📘 What happens upon a visitor being converted? > > If the User exists, then the Visitor will be merged into it, the Visitor deleted and the User returned. If the User does not exist, the Visitor will be converted to a User, with the User identifiers replacing it's Visitor identifiers.; Visitors
Create an article: You can create a new article by making a POST request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles`. > 📘 Tags cannot be managed via the Articles API > > Article tags are read-only in responses. To create, update, or delete tags, use the Intercom UI or the Tags API endpoints.; Articles
Create a collection: You can create a new collection by making a POST request to `https://api.intercom.io/help_center/collections.`; Help Center
Create contact: You can create a new contact (ie. user or lead).; Contacts
Create a content import source: You can create a new content import source by sending a POST request to this endpoint.; AI Content
Creates a conversation: You can create a conversation that has been initiated by a contact (ie. user or lead). The conversation can be an in-app message only. {% admonition type="info" name="Sending for visitors" %} You can also send a message from a visitor by specifying their `user_id` or `id` value in the `from` field, along with a `type` field value of `contact`. This visitor will be automatically converted to a contact with a lead role once the conversation is created. {% /admonition %} This will return the Message model that has been created.; Conversations
Create or Update a Custom Object Instance: Create or update a custom object instance; Custom Object Instances
Create a data attribute: You can create a data attributes for a `contact` or a `company`.; Data Attributes
Submit a data event: You will need an Access Token that has write permissions to send Events. Once you have a key you can submit events via POST to the Events resource, which is located at https://api.intercom.io/events, or you can send events using one of the client libraries. When working with the HTTP API directly a client should send the event with a `Content-Type` of `application/json`. When using the JavaScript API, [adding the code to your app](http://docs.intercom.io/configuring-Intercom/tracking-user-events-in-your-app) makes the Events API available. Once added, you can submit an event using the `trackEvent` method. This will associate the event with the Lead or currently logged-in user or logged-out visitor/lead and send it to Intercom. The final parameter is a map that can be used to send optional metadata about the event. With the Ruby client you pass a hash describing the event to `Intercom::Event.create`, or call the `track_user` method directly on the current user object (e.g. `user.track_event`). **NB: For the JSON object types, please note that we do not currently support nested JSON structure.** | Type | Description | Example | | :-------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | String | The value is a JSON String | `"source":"desktop"` | | Number | The value is a JSON Number | `"load": 3.67` | | Date | The key ends with the String `_date` and the value is a [Unix timestamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time), assumed to be in the [UTC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) timezone. | `"contact_date": 1392036272` | | Link | The value is a HTTP or HTTPS URI. | `"article": "https://example.org/ab1de.html"` | | Rich Link | The value is a JSON object that contains `url` and `value` keys. | `"article": {"url": "https://example.org/ab1de.html", "value":"the dude abides"}` | | Monetary Amount | The value is a JSON object that contains `amount` and `currency` keys. The `amount` key is a positive integer representing the amount in cents. The price in the example to the right denotes €349.99. | `"price": {"amount": 34999, "currency": "eur"}` | **Lead Events** When submitting events for Leads, you will need to specify the Lead's `id`. **Metadata behaviour** - We currently limit the number of tracked metadata keys to 10 per event. Once the quota is reached, we ignore any further keys we receive. The first 10 metadata keys are determined by the order in which they are sent in with the event. - It is not possible to change the metadata keys once the event has been sent. A new event will need to be created with the new keys and you can archive the old one. - There might be up to 24 hrs delay when you send a new metadata for an existing event. **Event de-duplication** The API may detect and ignore duplicate events. Each event is uniquely identified as a combination of the following data - the Workspace identifier, the Contact external identifier, the Data Event name and the Data Event created time. As a result, it is **strongly recommended** to send a second granularity Unix timestamp in the `created_at` field. Duplicated events are responded to using the normal `202 Accepted` code - an error is not thrown, however repeat requests will be counted against any rate limit that is in place. ### HTTP API Responses - Successful responses to submitted events return `202 Accepted` with an empty body. - Unauthorised access will be rejected with a `401 Unauthorized` or `403 Forbidden` response code. - Events sent about users that cannot be found will return a `404 Not Found`. - Event lists containing duplicate events will have those duplicates ignored. - Server errors will return a `500` response code and may contain an error message in the body.; Data Events
Create content data export: To create your export job, you need to send a `POST` request to the export endpoint `https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data`. This endpoint exports **message delivery and engagement data** for outbound content (Emails, Posts, Custom Bots, Surveys, Tours, Series, and more). The exported data includes who received each message, when they received it, and how they engaged with it (opens, clicks, replies, completions, dismissals, unsubscribes, and bounces). It does not export raw message or conversation content. The only parameters you need to provide are the range of dates that you want exported. >🚧 Limit of one active job > > You can only have one active job per workspace. You will receive a HTTP status code of 429 with the message Exceeded rate limit of 1 pending message data export jobs if you attempt to create a second concurrent job. >❗️ Updated_at not included > > It should be noted that the timeframe only includes messages sent during the time period and not messages that were only updated during this period. For example, if a message was updated yesterday but sent two days ago, you would need to set the created_at_after date before the message was sent to include that in your retrieval job. >📘 Date ranges are inclusive > > Requesting data for 2018-06-01 until 2018-06-30 will get all data for those days including those specified - e.g. 2018-06-01 00:00:00 until 2018-06-30 23:59:99.; Data Export
Create an external page (or update an external page by external ID): You can create a new external page by sending a POST request to this endpoint. If an external page already exists with the specified source_id and external_id, it will be updated instead.; AI Content
Create an internal article: You can create a new internal article by making a POST request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles`.; Internal Articles
Create a message: You can create a message that has been initiated by an admin. The conversation can be either an in-app message or an email. > 🚧 Sending for visitors > > There can be a short delay between when a contact is created and when a contact becomes available to be messaged through the API. A 404 Not Found error will be returned in this case. This will return the Message model that has been created. > 🚧 Retrieving Associated Conversations > > As this is a message, there will be no conversation present until the contact responds. Once they do, you will have to search for a contact's conversations with the id of the message.; Messages
Create a news item: You can create a news item; News
Create a note: You can add a note to a single contact.; NotesContacts
Create or Update a company: You can create or update a company. Companies will be only visible in Intercom when there is at least one associated user. Companies are looked up via `company_id` in a `POST` request, if not found via `company_id`, the new company will be created, if found, that company will be updated. {% admonition type="warning" name="Using `company_id`" %} You can set a unique `company_id` value when creating a company. However, it is not possible to update `company_id`. Be sure to set a unique value once upon creation of the company. {% /admonition %}; Companies
Create a phone Switch: You can use the API to deflect phone calls to the Intercom Messenger. Calling this endpoint will send an SMS with a link to the Messenger to the phone number specified. If custom attributes are specified, they will be added to the user or lead's custom data attributes.; Switch
Create or update a tag, Tag or untag companies, Tag contacts: You can use this endpoint to perform the following operations: **1. Create a new tag:** You can create a new tag by passing in the tag name as specified in "Create or Update Tag Request Payload" described below. **2. Update an existing tag:** You can update an existing tag by passing the id of the tag as specified in "Create or Update Tag Request Payload" described below. **3. Tag Companies:** You can tag single company or a list of companies. You can tag a company by passing in the tag name and the company details as specified in "Tag Company Request Payload" described below. Also, if the tag doesn't exist then a new one will be created automatically. **4. Untag Companies:** You can untag a single company or a list of companies. You can untag a company by passing in the tag id and the company details as specified in "Untag Company Request Payload" described below. **5. Tag Multiple Users:** You can tag a list of users. You can tag the users by passing in the tag name and the user details as specified in "Tag Users Request Payload" described below. Each operation will return a tag object.; Tags
Create a ticket: You can create a new ticket.; Tickets
Create a ticket type: You can create a new ticket type. > 📘 Creating ticket types. > > Every ticket type will be created with two default attributes: _default_title_ and _default_description_. > For the `icon` propery, use an emoji from [Twemoji Cheatsheet](https://twemoji-cheatsheet.vercel.app/); Ticket Types
Create a new attribute for a ticket type: You can create a new attribute for a ticket type.; Ticket Type Attributes
Create event summaries: Create event summaries for a user. Event summaries are used to track the number of times an event has occurred, the first time it occurred and the last time it occurred.; Data Events
Delete an article: You can delete a single article by making a DELETE request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>`.; Articles
Delete a collection: You can delete a single collection by making a DELETE request to `https://api.intercom.io/collections/<id>`.; Help Center
Delete a company: Delete a single company. This endpoint does not permanently remove the company. It archives the company record and detaches any contacts attached to it; the contacts themselves are not deleted. A `company.deleted` webhook is sent once archival completes. The endpoint returns `200` with `"deleted": true` as soon as the request is accepted — archival is processed asynchronously. {% admonition type="warning" %} Third-party integrations that sync companies into Intercom (for example, Salesforce or Chargebee) will recreate any company deleted through this endpoint on their next sync. To prevent recreation, remove or filter the company at the source integration before deleting it via the API. {% /admonition %}; Companies
Delete a contact: You can delete a single contact.; Contacts
Delete a content import source: You can delete a content import source by making a DELETE request this endpoint. This will also delete all external pages that were imported from this source.; AI Content
Delete a conversation: {% admonition type="warning" name="Irreversible operation" %} Deleting a conversation is permanent and cannot be reversed. {% /admonition %} Deleting a conversation permanently removes it from the inbox. All sensitive data is deleted, including admin and user replies, conversation attributes, uploads, and related content. The conversation will still appear in reporting, though some data may be incomplete due to the deletion.; Conversations
Delete a Custom Object Instance by ID: Delete a single Custom Object instance using the Intercom defined id.; Custom Object Instances
Delete a Custom Object Instance by External ID: Delete a single Custom Object instance by external_id.; Custom Object Instances
Delete an external page: Sending a DELETE request for an external page will remove it from the content library UI and from being used for AI answers.; AI Content
Delete an internal article: You can delete a single internal article by making a DELETE request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/<id>`.; Internal Articles
Delete a news item: You can delete a single news item.; News
Delete tag: You can delete the details of tags that are on the workspace by passing in the id.; Tags
Delete a ticket: {% admonition type="warning" name="Irreversible operation" %} Deleting a ticket is permanent and cannot be reversed. {% /admonition %} Deleting a ticket permanently removes it from the inbox. All sensitive data is deleted, including admin and user replies, ticket attributes, uploads, and related content. The ticket will still appear in reporting, though some data may be incomplete due to the deletion.; Tickets
Detach a contact from a company: You can detach a company from a single contact.; CompaniesContacts
Detach a contact from a group conversation: You can remove participants who are contacts from a group conversation, on behalf of an admin. {% admonition type="warning" name="Removing the last participant" %} You cannot remove the last remaining contact from a conversation. {% /admonition %}; Conversations
Remove subscription from a contact: You can remove a specific subscription from a contact. This will return a subscription type model for the subscription type that was removed from the contact.; Subscription TypesContacts
Remove tag from a contact: You can remove tag from a specific contact. This will return a tag object for the tag that was removed from the contact.; TagsContacts
Remove tag from a conversation: You can remove tag from a specific conversation. This will return a tag object for the tag that was removed from the conversation.; TagsConversations
Remove tag from a ticket: You can remove tag from a specific ticket. This will return a tag object for the tag that was removed from the ticket.; TagsTickets
Download content data export: When a job has a status of complete, and thus a filled download_url, you can download your data by hitting that provided URL, formatted like so: https://api.intercom.io/download/content/data/xyz1234. Your exported message data will be streamed continuously back down to you in a gzipped CSV format. > 📘 Octet header required > > You will have to specify the header Accept: `application/octet-stream` when hitting this endpoint.; Data Export
Enqueue create ticket: Enqueues ticket creation for asynchronous processing, returning if the job was enqueued successfully to be processed. We attempt to perform a best-effort validation on inputs before tasks are enqueued. If the given parameters are incorrect, we won't enqueue the job.; Tickets
Find a specific tag: You can fetch the details of tags that are on the workspace by their id. This will return a tag object.; Tags
Retrieve a content import source: Retrieve a content import source; AI Content
Get Custom Object Instance by External ID: Fetch a Custom Object Instance by external_id.; Custom Object Instances
Get Custom Object Instance by ID: Fetch a Custom Object Instance by id.; Custom Object Instances
Show content data export: You can view the status of your job by sending a `GET` request to the URL `https://api.intercom.io/export/content/data/{job_identifier}` - the `{job_identifier}` is the value returned in the response when you first created the export job. More on it can be seen in the Export Job Model. > 🚧 Jobs expire after two days > All jobs that have completed processing (and are thus available to download from the provided URL) will have an expiry limit of two days from when the export ob completed. After this, the data will no longer be available.; Data Export
Download completed export job data: Download the data from a completed reporting data export job. > Octet header required > > You will have to specify the header Accept: `application/octet-stream` when hitting this endpoint.; Reporting Data Export
List available datasets and attributes: List available datasets and attributes; Reporting Data Export
Get export job status: Get export job status; Reporting Data Export
Retrieve an external page: You can retrieve an external page.; AI Content
Get IP allowlist settings: Retrieve the current IP allowlist configuration for the workspace.; IP Allowlist
Retrieve a ticket: You can fetch the details of a single ticket.; Tickets
Retrieve a ticket type: You can fetch the details of a single ticket type.; Ticket Types
Identify an admin: You can view the currently authorised admin along with the embedded app object (a "workspace" in legacy terminology). > 🚧 Single Sign On > > If you are building a custom "Log in with Intercom" flow for your site, and you call the `/me` endpoint to identify the logged-in user, you should not accept any sign-ins from users with unverified email addresses as it poses a potential impersonation security risk.; Admins
Retrieve job status: Retrieve the status of job execution.; Jobs
List all data attributes: You can fetch a list of all data attributes belonging to a workspace for contacts, companies or conversations.; Data Attributes
List all data events: > 🚧 > > Please note that you can only 'list' events that are less than 90 days old. Event counts and summaries will still include your events older than 90 days but you cannot 'list' these events individually if they are older than 90 days The events belonging to a customer can be listed by sending a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/events` with a user or lead identifier along with a `type` parameter. The identifier parameter can be one of `user_id`, `email` or `intercom_user_id`. The `type` parameter value must be `user`. - `https://api.intercom.io/events?type=user&user_id={user_id}` - `https://api.intercom.io/events?type=user&email={email}` - `https://api.intercom.io/events?type=user&intercom_user_id={id}` (this call can be used to list leads) The `email` parameter value should be [url encoded](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding) when sending. You can optionally define the result page size as well with the `per_page` parameter.; Data Events
List all activity logs: You can get a log of activities by all admins in an app.; Admins
List all admins: You can fetch a list of admins for a given workspace.; Admins
List all collections: You can fetch a list of all collections by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/help_center/collections`. Collections will be returned in descending order on the `updated_at` attribute. This means if you need to iterate through results then we'll show the most recently updated collections first.; Help Center
List all companies: You can list companies. The company list is sorted by the `last_request_at` field and by default is ordered descending, most recently requested first. Note that the API does not include companies who have no associated users in list responses. When using the Companies endpoint and the pages object to iterate through the returned companies, there is a limit of 10,000 Companies that can be returned. If you need to list or iterate on more than 10,000 Companies, please use the [Scroll API](https://developers.intercom.com/reference#iterating-over-all-companies). {% admonition type="warning" name="Pagination" %} You can use pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `20` results per page. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#pagination-for-list-apis) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %}; Companies
List all articles: You can fetch a list of all articles by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles`. > 📘 How are the articles sorted and ordered? > > Articles will be returned in descending order on the `updated_at` attribute. This means if you need to iterate through results then we'll show the most recently updated articles first.; Articles
List attached contacts: You can fetch a list of all contacts that belong to a company.; CompaniesContacts
List attached segments for companies: You can fetch a list of all segments that belong to a company.; Companies
List all away status reasons: Returns a list of all away status reasons configured for the workspace, including deleted ones.; Away Status Reasons
List all calls: Retrieve a paginated list of calls.; Calls
List calls with transcripts: Retrieve calls by a list of conversation ids and include transcripts when available. A maximum of 20 `conversation_ids` can be provided. If none are provided or more than 20 are provided, a 400 error is returned.; Calls
List attached companies for contact: You can fetch a list of companies that are associated to a contact.; ContactsCompanies
List all contacts: You can fetch a list of all contacts (ie. users or leads) in your workspace. {% admonition type="info" name="Merged contacts" %} Contacts that have been merged (via POST /contacts/merge) will not appear in list results. Only the target contact from the merge remains accessible. {% /admonition %} {% admonition type="warning" name="Pagination" %} You can use pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `50` results per page. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#pagination-for-list-apis) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %}; Contacts
List content import sources: You can retrieve a list of all content import sources for a workspace.; AI Content
List all conversations: You can fetch a list of all conversations. You can optionally request the result page size and the cursor to start after to fetch the result. {% admonition type="warning" name="Pagination" %} You can use pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `20` results per page. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#pagination-for-list-apis) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %}; Conversations
List external pages: You can retrieve a list of all external pages for a workspace.; AI Content
List all Help Centers: You can list all Help Centers by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/help_center/help_centers`.; Help Center
List all articles: You can fetch a list of all internal articles by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles`.; Internal Articles
List all live newsfeed items: You can fetch a list of all news items that are live on a given newsfeed; News
List all news items: You can fetch a list of all news items; News
List all newsfeeds: You can fetch a list of all newsfeeds; News
List all notes: You can fetch a list of notes that are associated to a contact.; NotesContacts
List all segments: You can fetch a list of all segments.; Segments
List attached segments for contact: You can fetch a list of segments that are associated to a contact.; ContactsSegments
List subscription types: You can list all subscription types. A list of subscription type objects will be returned.; Subscription Types
List subscriptions for a contact: You can fetch a list of subscription types that are attached to a contact. These can be subscriptions that a user has 'opted-in' to or has 'opted-out' from, depending on the subscription type. This will return a list of Subscription Type objects that the contact is associated with. The data property will show a combined list of: 1.Opt-out subscription types that the user has opted-out from. 2.Opt-in subscription types that the user has opted-in to receiving. **Note:** This endpoint only returns subscriptions where the contact has explicitly configured their preference. Subscriptions that are in the default state — where the contact has not made an explicit opt-in or opt-out choice — are not included in the response.; ContactsSubscription Types
List all tags: You can fetch a list of all tags for a given workspace.; Tags
List tags attached to a contact: You can fetch a list of all tags that are attached to a specific contact.; ContactsTags
List all teams: This will return a list of team objects for the App.; Teams
List all ticket states: You can get a list of all ticket states for a workspace.; Ticket States
List all ticket types: You can get a list of all ticket types for a workspace.; Ticket Types
Manage a conversation: For managing conversations you can: - Close a conversation - Snooze a conversation to reopen on a future date - Open a conversation which is `snoozed` or `closed` - Assign a conversation to an admin and/or team.; Conversations
Merge a lead and a user: You can merge a contact with a `role` of `lead` into a contact with a `role` of `user`. {% admonition type="warning" name="Merged contacts are not retrievable via the API" %} Once a merge is completed, the source contact (`from`) is permanently removed from the active contact list. This means: - **GET /contacts/{id}** — Requesting the source contact by its original ID will return a `404 Not Found` error. - **POST /contacts/search** — The source contact will not appear in search results, including queries filtered by `updated_at`. - **GET /contacts** — The source contact will not appear in list results. Only the target contact (`into`) remains accessible. If your application stores contact IDs, update them to use the target contact's ID after a merge. {% /admonition %}; Contacts
Enqueue a new reporting data export job: Enqueue a new reporting data export job; Reporting Data Export
Redact a conversation part: You can redact a conversation part or the source message of a conversation (as seen in the source object). {% admonition type="info" name="Redacting parts and messages" %} If you are redacting a conversation part, it must have a `body`. If you are redacting a source message, it must have been created by a contact. We will return a `conversation_part_not_redactable` error if these criteria are not met. {% /admonition %}; Conversations
Reply to a conversation: You can reply to a conversation with a message from an admin or on behalf of a contact, or with a note for admins. {% admonition type="warning" name="Bot replies to inbound email" %} By default, bot or Operator replies to an inbound email conversation aren't sent to your customer. The reply is stored as an unnotifiable bot comment, and no `seen` receipt is generated until an email is actually delivered. To send these replies as outbound emails, reach out to your accounts team to enable the email-reply feature flag for your workspace. {% /admonition %}; Conversations
Reply to a ticket: You can reply to a ticket with a message from an admin or on behalf of a contact, or with a note for admins.; Tickets
Reply to Fin: Once Fin has returned a response to a user's message, its status will be `awaiting_user_reply`. If a user replies, use this endpoint to send this response to Fin. {% admonition type="warning" %} Please reach out to your accounts team to discuss access. {% /admonition %}; Fin Agent
Retrieve a company by ID: You can fetch a single company.; Companies
Retrieve an admin: You can retrieve the details of a single admin.; Admins
Retrieve an article: You can fetch the details of a single article by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>`.; Articles
Retrieve a collection: You can fetch the details of a single collection by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/help_center/collections/<id>`.; Help Center
Retrieve companies: You can fetch a single company by passing in `company_id` or `name`. `https://api.intercom.io/companies?name={name}` `https://api.intercom.io/companies?company_id={company_id}` You can fetch all companies and filter by `segment_id` or `tag_id` as a query parameter. `https://api.intercom.io/companies?tag_id={tag_id}` `https://api.intercom.io/companies?segment_id={segment_id}`; Companies
Retrieve a conversation: You can fetch the details of a single conversation. This will return a single Conversation model with all its conversation parts. {% admonition type="warning" name="Hard limit of 500 parts" %} The maximum number of conversation parts that can be returned via the API is 500. If you have more than that we will return the 500 most recent conversation parts. {% /admonition %} For AI agent conversation metadata, please note that you need to have the agent enabled in your workspace, which is a [paid feature](https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/8205718-fin-resolutions#h_97f8c2e671).; Conversations
Retrieve a Help Center: You can fetch the details of a single Help Center by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/help_center/help_center/<id>`.; Help Center
Retrieve an internal article: You can fetch the details of a single internal article by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/<id>`.; Internal Articles
Retrieve a news item: You can fetch the details of a single news item.; News
Retrieve a newsfeed: You can fetch the details of a single newsfeed; News
Retrieve a note: You can fetch the details of a single note.; Notes
Retrieve a segment: You can fetch the details of a single segment.; Segments
Retrieve a team: You can fetch the details of a single team, containing an array of admins that belong to this team.; Teams
Retrieve a visitor with User ID: You can fetch the details of a single visitor.; Visitors
Scroll over all companies: The `list all companies` functionality does not work well for huge datasets, and can result in errors and performance problems when paging deeply. The Scroll API provides an efficient mechanism for iterating over all companies in a dataset. - Each app can only have 1 scroll open at a time. You'll get an error message if you try to have more than one open per app. - If the scroll isn't used for 1 minute, it expires and calls with that scroll param will fail - If the end of the scroll is reached, "companies" will be empty and the scroll parameter will expire {% admonition type="info" name="Scroll Parameter" %} You can get the first page of companies by simply sending a GET request to the scroll endpoint. For subsequent requests you will need to use the scroll parameter from the response. {% /admonition %} {% admonition type="danger" name="Scroll network timeouts" %} Since scroll is often used on large datasets network errors such as timeouts can be encountered. When this occurs you will see a HTTP 500 error with the following message: "Request failed due to an internal network error. Please restart the scroll operation." If this happens, you will need to restart your scroll query: It is not possible to continue from a specific point when using scroll. {% /admonition %}; Companies
Search for articles: You can search for articles by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles/search`.; Articles
Search contacts: You can search for multiple contacts by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly who you want. To search for contacts, you need to send a `POST` request to `https://api.intercom.io/contacts/search`. This will accept a query object in the body which will define your filters in order to search for contacts. {% admonition type="warning" name="Optimizing search queries" %} Search queries can be complex, so optimizing them can help the performance of your search. Use the `AND` and `OR` operators to combine multiple filters to get the exact results you need and utilize pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `50` results per page. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#example-search-conversations-request) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %} ### Merged Contacts Contacts that have been merged (via POST /contacts/merge) are excluded from search results. If a contact was recently merged into another, it will no longer appear in queries filtered by `updated_at` or any other field. Only the target contact from the merge remains searchable. ### Contact Creation Delay If a contact has recently been created, there is a possibility that it will not yet be available when searching. This means that it may not appear in the response. This delay can take a few minutes. If you need to be instantly notified it is recommended to use webhooks and iterate to see if they match your search filters. ### Nesting & Limitations You can nest these filters in order to get even more granular insights that pinpoint exactly what you need. Example: (1 OR 2) AND (3 OR 4). There are some limitations to the amount of multiple's there can be: * There's a limit of max 2 nested filters * There's a limit of max 15 filters for each AND or OR group ### Searching for Timestamp Fields All timestamp fields (created_at, updated_at etc.) are indexed as Dates for Contact Search queries; Datetime queries are not currently supported. This means you can only query for timestamp fields by day - not hour, minute or second. The day a timestamp falls on is determined using your workspace's timezone, so the same query can return different results across workspaces in different timezones. Because timestamps are stored in UTC, filtering by a value the API returned may not match the originating contact when your workspace is not set to UTC. For example, on a workspace set to UTC, if you search for all Contacts with a created_at value greater (>) than 1577869200 (the UNIX timestamp for January 1st, 2020 9:00 AM UTC), that will be interpreted as 1577836800 (January 1st, 2020 12:00 AM UTC). The search results will then include Contacts created from January 2nd, 2020 12:00 AM UTC onwards. On a workspace in another timezone, the day boundaries fall on that timezone's midnight instead. If you'd like to get contacts created on January 1st, 2020 you should search with a created_at value equal (=) to 1577836800 (January 1st, 2020 12:00 AM UTC). This behaviour applies only to timestamps used in search queries. The search results will still contain the full UNIX timestamp and be sorted accordingly. ### Accepted Fields Most key listed as part of the Contacts Model are searchable, whether writeable or not. The value you search for has to match the accepted type, otherwise the query will fail (ie. as `created_at` accepts a date, the `value` cannot be a string such as `"foorbar"`). | Field | Type | | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | | id | String | | role | String Accepts user or lead | | name | String | | avatar | String | | owner_id | Integer | | email | String | | email_domain | String | | phone | String | | external_id | String | | created_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | signed_up_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | updated_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | last_seen_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | last_contacted_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | last_replied_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | last_email_opened_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | last_email_clicked_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | language_override | String | | browser | String | | browser_language | String | | os | String | | location.country | String | | location.region | String | | location.city | String | | unsubscribed_from_emails | Boolean | | marked_email_as_spam | Boolean | | has_hard_bounced | Boolean | | ios_last_seen_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | ios_app_version | String | | ios_device | String | | ios_app_device | String | | ios_os_version | String | | ios_app_name | String | | ios_sdk_version | String | | android_last_seen_at | Date (UNIX Timestamp) | | android_app_version | String | | android_device | String | | android_app_name | String | | andoid_sdk_version | String | | segment_id | String | | tag_id | String | | custom_attributes.{attribute_name} | String | ### Accepted Operators {% admonition type="warning" name="Searching based on `created_at`" %} You cannot use the `<=` or `>=` operators to search by `created_at`. {% /admonition %} The table below shows the operators you can use to define how you want to search for the value. The operator should be put in as a string (`"="`). The operator has to be compatible with the field's type (eg. you cannot search with `>` for a given string value as it's only compatible for integer's and dates). | Operator | Valid Types | Description | | :------- | :------------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------- | | = | All | Equals | | != | All | Doesn't Equal | | IN | All | In Shortcut for `OR` queries Values must be in Array | | NIN | All | Not In Shortcut for `OR !` queries Values must be in Array | | > | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Greater than | | < | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Lower than | | ~ | String | Contains | | !~ | String | Doesn't Contain | | ^ | String | Starts With | | $ | String | Ends With |; Contacts
Search conversations: You can search for multiple conversations by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly which ones you want. To search for conversations, you need to send a `POST` request to `https://api.intercom.io/conversations/search`. This will accept a query object in the body which will define your filters in order to search for conversations. {% admonition type="warning" name="Optimizing search queries" %} Search queries can be complex, so optimizing them can help the performance of your search. Use the `AND` and `OR` operators to combine multiple filters to get the exact results you need and utilize pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `20` results per page and maximum is `150`. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#example-search-conversations-request) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %} ### Nesting & Limitations You can nest these filters in order to get even more granular insights that pinpoint exactly what you need. Example: (1 OR 2) AND (3 OR 4). There are some limitations to the amount of multiple's there can be: - There's a limit of max 2 nested filters - There's a limit of max 15 filters for each AND or OR group ### Accepted Fields Most keys listed in the conversation model are searchable, whether writeable or not. The value you search for has to match the accepted type, otherwise the query will fail (ie. as `created_at` accepts a date, the `value` cannot be a string such as `"foorbar"`). The `source.body` field is unique as the search will not be performed against the entire value, but instead against every element of the value separately. For example, when searching for a conversation with a `"I need support"` body - the query should contain a `=` operator with the value `"support"` for such conversation to be returned. A query with a `=` operator and a `"need support"` value will not yield a result. | Field | Type | | :---------------------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | id | String | | created_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | updated_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | source.type | String Accepted fields are `conversation`, `email`, `facebook`, `instagram`, `phone_call`, `phone_switch`, `push`, `sms`, `twitter` and `whatsapp`. | | source.id | String | | source.delivered_as | String | | source.subject | String | | source.body | String | | source.author.id | String | | source.author.type | String | | source.author.name | String | | source.author.email | String | | source.url | String | | contact_ids | String | | teammate_ids | String | | admin_assignee_id | Integer | | team_assignee_id | Integer | | channel_initiated | String | | open | Boolean | | read | Boolean | | state | String | | waiting_since | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | snoozed_until | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | tag_ids | String | | priority | String | | statistics.time_to_assignment | Integer | | statistics.time_to_admin_reply | Integer | | statistics.time_to_first_close | Integer | | statistics.time_to_last_close | Integer | | statistics.median_time_to_reply | Integer | | statistics.first_contact_reply_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.first_assignment_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.first_admin_reply_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.first_close_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_assignment_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_assignment_admin_reply_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_contact_reply_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_admin_reply_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_close_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | statistics.last_closed_by_id | String | | statistics.count_reopens | Integer | | statistics.count_assignments | Integer | | statistics.count_conversation_parts | Integer | | conversation_rating.requested_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | conversation_rating.replied_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | conversation_rating.score | Integer | | conversation_rating.remark | String | | conversation_rating.contact_id | String | | conversation_rating.admin_d | String | | ai_agent_participated | Boolean | | ai_agent.resolution_state | String | | ai_agent.last_answer_type | String | | ai_agent.rating | Integer | | ai_agent.rating_remark | String | | ai_agent.source_type | String | | ai_agent.source_title | String | ### Accepted Operators The table below shows the operators you can use to define how you want to search for the value. The operator should be put in as a string (`"="`). The operator has to be compatible with the field's type (eg. you cannot search with `>` for a given string value as it's only compatible for integer's and dates). | Operator | Valid Types | Description | | :------- | :----------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------- | | = | All | Equals | | != | All | Doesn't Equal | | IN | All | In Shortcut for `OR` queries Values most be in Array | | NIN | All | Not In Shortcut for `OR !` queries Values must be in Array | | > | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Greater (or equal) than | | < | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Lower (or equal) than | | ~ | String | Contains | | !~ | String | Doesn't Contain | | ^ | String | Starts With | | $ | String | Ends With |; Conversations
Search for internal articles: You can search for internal articles by making a GET request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/search`.; Internal Articles
Search tickets: You can search for multiple tickets by the value of their attributes in order to fetch exactly which ones you want. To search for tickets, you send a `POST` request to `https://api.intercom.io/tickets/search`. This will accept a query object in the body which will define your filters. {% admonition type="warning" name="Optimizing search queries" %} Search queries can be complex, so optimizing them can help the performance of your search. Use the `AND` and `OR` operators to combine multiple filters to get the exact results you need and utilize pagination to limit the number of results returned. The default is `20` results per page. See the [pagination section](https://developers.intercom.com/docs/build-an-integration/learn-more/rest-apis/pagination/#example-search-conversations-request) for more details on how to use the `starting_after` param. {% /admonition %} ### Nesting & Limitations You can nest these filters in order to get even more granular insights that pinpoint exactly what you need. Example: (1 OR 2) AND (3 OR 4). There are some limitations to the amount of multiples there can be: - There's a limit of max 2 nested filters - There's a limit of max 15 filters for each AND or OR group ### Accepted Fields Most keys listed as part of the Ticket model are searchable, whether writeable or not. The value you search for has to match the accepted type, otherwise the query will fail (ie. as `created_at` accepts a date, the `value` cannot be a string such as `"foobar"`). The `source.body` field is unique as the search will not be performed against the entire value, but instead against every element of the value separately. For example, when searching for a conversation with a `"I need support"` body - the query should contain a `=` operator with the value `"support"` for such conversation to be returned. A query with a `=` operator and a `"need support"` value will not yield a result. | Field | Type | | :---------------------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | id | String | | created_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | updated_at | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | title | String | | description | String | | category | String | | ticket_type_id | String | | contact_ids | String | | teammate_ids | String | | admin_assignee_id | String | | team_assignee_id | String | | open | Boolean | | state | String | | snoozed_until | Date (UNIX timestamp) | | ticket_attribute.{id} | String or Boolean or Date (UNIX timestamp) or Float or Integer | {% admonition type="info" name="Searching by Category" %} When searching for tickets by the **`category`** field, specific terms must be used instead of the category names: * For **Customer** category tickets, use the term `request`. * For **Back-office** category tickets, use the term `task`. * For **Tracker** category tickets, use the term `tracker`. {% /admonition %} ### Accepted Operators {% admonition type="info" name="Searching based on `created_at`" %} You may use the `<=` or `>=` operators to search by `created_at`. {% /admonition %} The table below shows the operators you can use to define how you want to search for the value. The operator should be put in as a string (`"="`). The operator has to be compatible with the field's type (eg. you cannot search with `>` for a given string value as it's only compatible for integer's and dates). | Operator | Valid Types | Description | | :------- | :----------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------- | | = | All | Equals | | != | All | Doesn't Equal | | IN | All | In Shortcut for `OR` queries Values most be in Array | | NIN | All | Not In Shortcut for `OR !` queries Values must be in Array | | > | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Greater (or equal) than | | < | Integer Date (UNIX Timestamp) | Lower (or equal) than | | ~ | String | Contains | | !~ | String | Doesn't Contain | | ^ | String | Starts With | | $ | String | Ends With |; Tickets
Set an admin to away: You can set an Admin as away for the Inbox.; Admins
Get a call: Retrieve a single call by id.; Calls
Get call recording by call id: Redirects to a signed URL for the call's recording if it exists.; Calls
Get call transcript by call id: Returns the transcript for the specified call as a downloadable text file.; Calls
Get a contact: You can fetch the details of a single contact. {% admonition type="warning" name="Merged contacts" %} If a contact has been merged into another contact via the Merge endpoint (POST /contacts/merge), requesting it by its original ID will return a `404 Not Found` error. Use the merged-into contact's ID instead. {% /admonition %}; Contacts
Get a contact by External ID: You can fetch the details of a single contact by external ID. Note that this endpoint only supports users and not leads.; Contacts
Start a conversation with Fin: Initialize Fin by passing it the user's message along with conversation history and user details. These additional pieces of context will be used by Fin to provide a better and more contextual answer to the user. {% admonition type="warning" %} Please reach out to your accounts team to discuss access. {% /admonition %} Once Fin is initialized, it progresses through a series of statuses such as *thinking*, *awaiting_user_reply*, or *resolved* before ending with a status of *complete*. During this workflow, the client should allow Fin to continue uninterrupted until a final *complete* status is returned via webhook, at which point control of the conversation passes back to the client.; Fin Agent
Unarchive contact: You can unarchive a single contact.; Contacts
Update an article: You can update the details of a single article by making a PUT request to `https://api.intercom.io/articles/<id>`. > 📘 Tags cannot be managed via the Articles API > > Article tags are read-only in responses. To create, update, or delete tags, use the Intercom UI or the Tags API endpoints.; Articles
Update a collection: You can update the details of a single collection by making a PUT request to `https://api.intercom.io/collections/<id>`.; Help Center
Update a company: You can update a single company using the Intercom provisioned `id`. {% admonition type="warning" name="Using `company_id`" %} When updating a company it is not possible to update `company_id`. This can only be set once upon creation of the company. {% /admonition %}; Companies
Update a contact: You can update an existing contact (ie. user or lead). {% admonition type="info" %} This endpoint handles both **contact updates** and **custom object associations**. See _`update a contact with an association to a custom object instance`_ in the request/response examples to see the custom object association format. {% /admonition %}; ContactsCustom Object Instances
Update a content import source: You can update an existing content import source.; AI Content
Update a conversation: You can update an existing conversation. {% admonition type="info" name="Replying and other actions" %} If you want to reply to a coveration or take an action such as assign, unassign, open, close or snooze, take a look at the reply and manage endpoints. {% /admonition %} {% admonition type="info" %} This endpoint handles both **conversation updates** and **custom object associations**. See _`update a conversation with an association to a custom object instance`_ in the request/response examples to see the custom object association format. {% /admonition %} {% admonition type="danger" name="Breaking change: duplicate custom attribute names" %} The `PUT /conversations/{id}` endpoint now returns a `400 INVALID_PARAMETER` error when the request includes `custom_attributes` and your workspace contains multiple non-archived conversation custom attributes with the same name. Previously, the update would silently apply to a non-deterministic attribute. To resolve, rename or archive the duplicate attribute in your workspace settings, then retry the request. {% /admonition %}; ConversationsCustom Object Instances
Update a data attribute: You can update a data attribute. > 🚧 Updating the data type is not possible > > It is currently a dangerous action to execute changing a data attribute's type via the API. You will need to update the type via the UI instead.; Data Attributes
Update an external page: You can update an existing external page (if it was created via the API).; AI Content
Update an internal article: You can update the details of a single internal article by making a PUT request to `https://api.intercom.io/internal_articles/<id>`.; Internal Articles
Update IP allowlist settings: Update the IP allowlist configuration for the workspace. {% admonition type="warning" name="Lockout Protection" %} The API will reject updates that would lock out the caller's IP address. Ensure your current IP is included in the allowlist when enabling the feature. {% /admonition %}; IP Allowlist
Update a news item: Update a news item; News
Update a ticket: You can update a ticket.; Tickets
Update a ticket type: You can update a ticket type. > 📘 Updating a ticket type. > > For the `icon` propery, use an emoji from [Twemoji Cheatsheet](https://twemoji-cheatsheet.vercel.app/); Ticket Types
Update an existing attribute for a ticket type: You can update an existing attribute for a ticket type.; Ticket Type Attributes
Update a visitor: Sending a PUT request to `/visitors` will result in an update of an existing Visitor. **Option 1.** You can update a visitor by passing in the `user_id` of the visitor in the Request body. **Option 2.** You can update a visitor by passing in the `id` of the visitor in the Request body.; Visitors

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