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Power automated communication that people like to receive.
[](https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/customerio/customerio-node/) [](https://github.com/customerio/customerio-node/actions/workflows/main.yml) -# Customer.io Node +# Customer.io NodeJS -A node client for the Customer.io [REST API](https://customer.io/docs/api/). +A node client for the Customer.io Journeys [REST API](https://customer.io/docs/api/). If you're new to Customer.io, we recommend that you integrate with our [Data Pipelines JavaScript client](https://github.com/customerio/cdp-analytics-js) instead. ## Alternative Node runtimes @@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ Create a new `SendEmailRequest` object containing: - `to`: the email address of your recipients - an `identifiers` object containing the email and/or `id` of your recipient. If the person you reference by email or ID does not exist, Customer.io creates them. - a `message_data` object containing properties that you want reference in your message using Liquid. -- You can also send attachments with your message. Use `attach` to encode attachments. +- You can also send attachments with your message with `attach`, but you need to read the file to a buffer (with `fs.readFileSync`, for example); you cannot attach raw, base64-encoded data directly from a variable. Use `sendEmail` referencing your request to send a transactional message. [Learn more about transactional messages and `SendEmailRequest` properties](https://customer.io/docs/transactional-api). @@ -331,6 +330,8 @@ const request = new SendEmailRequest({ }); // (optional) attach a file to your message. +// Note that you need to read the file to a buffer; +// you can't simply attach raw, base64-encoded data. request.attach("receipt.pdf", fs.readFileSync("receipt.pdf")); api