Get the messages associated to the order

GET /v2/post_checkout/chat/{order_id}/messages

Gets all the messages of the conversation between the customer and the shopper.

Security

Name	In	Description
Authorization	header	The Authorization header with the bearer token acquired during authentication.

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
order_id	path	string		The ID of the order.
X-Treat-Ids-As-Internal	header	boolean

Request

None.

Request examples

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://connect.instacart.com/v2/post_checkout/chat/{order_id}/messages' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'X-Treat-Ids-As-Internal: true'

Java

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://connect.instacart.com/v2/post_checkout/chat/{order_id}/messages")
  .header("Accept", "application/json")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("X-Treat-Ids-As-Internal", "true")
  .asString();

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("connect.instacart.com")

headers = {
    'Accept': "application/json",
    'Authorization': "Bearer <token>",
    'X-Treat-Ids-As-Internal': "true"
    }

conn.request("GET", "/v2/post_checkout/chat/{order_id}/messages", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://connect.instacart.com/v2/post_checkout/chat/{order_id}/messages"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("X-Treat-Ids-As-Internal", "true")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

Response

Field	Type	Required	Description
chat_messages	Array(Message)		The list of messages.
metadata	ChatMessagesMetadata		Metadata associated with the chat messages.

Message Object

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	integer		The ID of the message.
order_id	integer		The order ID for this message.
created_at	string		When this message was created.
recipient_id	integer		The ID of the message recipient.
recipient_type	string		The type of the message recipient. One of be 'user' or 'driver'.
sender_id	integer		The ID of the message sender.
sender_type	string		The type of the message sender. One of 'user' or 'driver'.
read	boolean		Indicates whether this message has been read.
read_at	string		Indicates the time this message was read.
body	string		The body of this message.
image	string		The image associated with this message.

ChatMessagesMetadata Object

Field	Type	Required	Description
customer	ChatUser		The metadata of the customer.
current_shopper	ChatUser		The metadata for the current shopper.
shoppers	Array(ChatUser)		The metadata of the shoppers.

ChatUser Object

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	integer		The ID of the user.
display_name	string		The display name of the user.
avatar_url	string		The URL of the user's avatar.

Response examples

200 Success

200 Messages Fetched

{
  "chat_messages": [
    {
      "id": 123456789,
      "order_id": 122233,
      "created_at": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "recipient_id": 334354343,
      "recipient_type": "user",
      "sender_id": 55655345,
      "sender_type": "driver",
      "read": false,
      "body": "MessageBody"
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "customer": {
      "id": 2,
      "display_name": "John",
      "avatar_url": ""
    },
    "current_shopper": {
      "id": 4,
      "display_name": "Robert",
      "avatar_url": "https://speedwagon.foundation/avatar/reospeedwagon.jpg"
    },
    "shoppers": [
      {
        "id": 55655345,
        "display_name": "SomeFirstName",
        "avatar_url": "SomeURL"
      },
      {
        "id": 123456789,
        "display_name": "SomeFirstName2",
        "avatar_url": "SomeURL2"
      },
      {
        "id": 4,
        "display_name": "Robert",
        "avatar_url": "https://speedwagon.foundation/avatar/reospeedwagon.jpg"
      }
    ]
  }
}

4XX Errors

Error responses return either a single error or multiple errors.

HTTP Code	Cause	Error Message	Error Code	Error Meta
404	Order not found	"Resource not found"	4000	Not applicable