Intercom Service for Node JS

Communicate with the Intercom API from your Node JS backend. This package is built on top of the offical intercom-node package. It gives you TypeScript type definitions for all exported functions and will validate the incoming data so it complies with the rules of the Intercom API.

Quickstart

  yarn add intercom-service-js

Basic Usage

Basic usage involves adding the IntercomService to your setup. IMPORTANT You need to fetch your own access token and feed it to IntercomService (as seen below). Read more here Create an Access Token.

import { IntercomService } from 'intercom-service-js'

// Initialize the IntercomService
const intercom = new IntercomService({ token: process.env.INTERCOM_AUTH_TOKEN })
// ways down in your code ...
intercom.createOrUpdateUser({
    user_id: `${data.user_id}`,
    name: data.user_name,
    email: data.user_email,
    signed_up_at: data.user_created_date,
    companies: [
      {
        company_id: `${data.company_id}`,
      },
    ],
    custom_attributes: {
      timezone: data.user_timezone,
      city: data.user_city,
    },
  })
  .then(intercomUpdate => {
    if (intercomUpdate && intercomUpdate.success) {
      resolve({
        success: true,
      })
    } else {
      resolve({
        success: false,
        error: intercomUpdate.error,
      })
    }
  })
  .catch(error => {
    resolve({
      success: false,
      error: error,
    })
  })

API

All functions will return a Promise with the following structure (? suffix indicates it's optional). Note: this syntax is a TypeScript interface.

{
  success: boolean
  data?: {
    internal_id: string
    intercom_id: string
    result: {
      // This contains the body of the response from the API
      [propName: string]: any
    }
  }
  error?: {
    code: string
    message: string
    errors: string[]
    data?: {
      internal_id: string
    }
    originalError?: any
  }
}

Regarding async/await

Please note we're using await (of async/await) in the examples below. We're using TypeScript to allow that but there are lot's of other ways so pick your favourite.

tagCompany

Example

const tagResult = await intercom.tagCompany({
  company_id: '1234',
  tag: 'test tag',
})

Accepts

• company_id (string)
• tag (object)

Mandatory

• company_id
• tag

tagMultiple

Example

const tagResult = await intercom.tagCompany({
  name: 'test tag',
  companies: [
    {
      company_id: '1234'
    }
  ],
  users: [
    {
      user_id: '5678'
    }
  ]
})

Accepts

• An object with the following fields (see type for more information)
  • name (string)
  • companies (Array<object>)
  • users (Array<object>)

Mandatory

• name
• companies
• users

createOrUpdateCompany

Example

const result = await intercom.createOrUpdateCompany({ company_id: '233' })

Accepts

• company_id (string)
• remote_created_at (string)
• name (string)
• monthly_spend (number)
• plan (string)
• size (number)
• website (string)
• industry (string)
• custom_attributes (object)

Mandatory

• company_id

createOrUpdateUser

Example

const userDataData = {
  user_id: user.id,
  email: user.email,
  name: user.name,
  companies: [
    {
      company_id: company.id,
    },
  ],
}
const result = await intercom.createOrUpdateUser(userDataData)

Accepts

• user_id (string)
• email (string)
• name (string)
• phone (string)
• website (string)
• signed_up_at (string)
• last_request_at (string)
• last_seen_ip (string)
• last_seen_user_agent (string)
• update_last_request_at (string)
• unsubscribed_from_emails (boolean)
• new_session (boolean)
• companies (Array<object>)
• custom_attributes (object)

Mandatory

• user_id
• email

deleteUser

Example

const result = await intercom.deleteUser({
  user_id: user.id,
})

Accepts

• userId (string)

Mandatory

• userId