curl -X GET "https://api.manychat.com/fb/page/getGrowthTools" -H "accept: application/json"

The purpose of this API call is to get all created Growth Tools in your ManyChat account.

Why would you need this?

To be honest, I do not see a lot of use cases for this feature. Maybe there’s some way it can be helpful to you, but for us: not so much :-).

By using this API you can get a list of growth tools, but since it is only giving you the ID, Name and Type of the tools, there’s not much other than reporting what is created.

This is the default response on a successful request. It looks similar to the one for creating Tags.

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "name": "string",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ]
}

So how do we use this in our own system?

We assume you started in the First chapter of this course, and are now aware of the creation of the class file and the config file.
Those files are being used in ALL scripts we explain in the course. If you missed it, go here and read it.

First we will add a new function to our class file in classes/manychat.class.php.

    /**
     * 
     * @param type $mc_api
     * @return type
     */
    function getGrowthTools($mc_api)
    {

        $ch            = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.manychat.com/fb/page/getGrowthTools");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $headers       = [
            'Authorization: Bearer ' . preg_replace("/^(\w+\s+)/", "", $mc_api),
            'Content-Type: application/json',
            'Accept: application/json'
        ];
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
        $server_output = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);

        $json_obj  = json_decode($server_output);
        $good_call = $json_obj->status;

        if ($good_call == "success") {
            usort($json_obj->data, function($a, $b) {
                // Sort by GT Type
                return strcmp($a->type, $b->type);
            });

            $growthTools = $json_obj->data;

            return $growthTools;
        }
    }

After we created the new function, we will create a new PHP file and call it page_get_growthtools.php. Here’s the start of our new PHP file:

<?php

/*
 * Load the ManyChat Config File
 */
require_once './config.inc.php';

/*
 * Get the Growth Tools for your page
 */

// add functions here

We will add a call to the function from the class file now, then create a loop to display all the information from the JSON Object that was returned by the class method (function).

$page_growthTools = $mc->getGrowthTools($mc_api);

foreach ($page_growthTools AS $growthTools) {
    echo $growthTools->id . "<br />";
    echo $growthTools->name . "<br />";
    echo $growthTools->type . "<br /><br />";
}

Now, when we run the file (page_get_growthtools.php) in our browser, we should see the following result:

...
2921004
Loyalty Card Redeem Scanner
messenger_code

2920999
Loyalty Card + Get Wi-Fi
messenger_code

2170970
180606 - Store Owner Stats Viewer 3
messenger_code
...

That’s great! We successfully listed all the growth tools in the ManyChat system, all in our own environment!

We now have a fully functional script that can list all those growth tools, all from our own localhost, or server. Eternal bragging rights can be earned here if you tell me at least 1 useful use case for this , promised!

The full PHP script now looks like this:

<?php

/*
 * Load the ManyChat Config File
 */
require_once './config.inc.php';

/*
 * Get the Growth Tools for your page
 */

$page_growthTools = $mc->getGrowthTools($mc_api);

foreach ($page_growthTools AS $growthTools) {
    echo $growthTools->id . "<br />";
    echo $growthTools->name . "<br />";
    echo $growthTools->type . "<br /><br />";
}