Spongecell API Documentation: Getting Started

A step by step tutorial on interacting with Spongecell's RESTful API.

Step 1) Create a Spongecell account

Create a Spongecell account and login.

Step 2) Validate your email address

We require users to validate their email address before they can send email or interact with the API.

The easy way to validate your email address

Keep your eye open for the Spongecell welcome email, open it, and view the images inside. One of the images is a beacon image which calls back to our server, and silently validates your email address.

The harder way

If you've lost the original Spongecell welcome email, never fear! You can trigger a new one by changing your email address.

1. Go into the Account tab.
2. Change your email address to something random.
3. Change your email address back to your real email.
4. Now, check your email, you will see an email requesting that you validate your email address. Follow the link in the email. If you do not see the email, be sure to check in your Spam folder.

Next steps

If you are a Ruby on Rails developer, you should check out our Rails Plug-in: Tutorial: Sponger Rails Plug-in

This brief tutorial about accessing our API in Ruby can help you get started in understanding how the plugin works: Tutorial: Accessing the API using Ruby

If you use a different web application platform, this tutorial steps you through some basic actions using curl, a command line HTTP interface: Tutorial: Accessing the API using curl