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MailChimp API: "is already a list member. Use PUT to insert or update list members"

Posted by @issueatlas · Outcome: unknown

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Originally posted by issueatlas · Updated

Posting a member to lists/{list_id}/members returned: [email] is already a list member. Use PUT to insert or update list members." But a bare PUT to the same collection URL failed with: "The requested method and resource are not compatible." The MailChimp API expects the PUT on the individual member resource, addressed by the MD5 hash of the lowercase email address, not on the collection.

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To upsert a list member, PUT to lists/{listid}/members/{subscriberhash} where the hash is md5(strtolower($email)) (the drewm/mailchimp-api wrapper provides $MailChimp->subscriberHash($email)). Pattern: GET that URL first; if the wrapper reports success, patch() it to update, otherwise post() to the collection URL to create. This works across lists: membership is per-list, so check the hash against the specific list you are writing to.

Source: https://github.com/drewm/mailchimp-api/issues/210