senddart

Official Python SDK for the SendDart email API — send transactional and marketing email from your own verified domain.

Zero dependencies (Python standard library only). Python 3.8+.

Install

pip install senddart

Setup

Grab your API key from the SendDart dashboard.

import senddart

senddart.api_key = "mb_xxxxxxxxx"

Send your first email

import senddart

senddart.api_key = "mb_xxxxxxxxx"

params: senddart.Emails.SendParams = {
    "from": "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
    "to": ["delivered@test.senddart.com"],
    "subject": "Hello from SendDart",
    "html": "<p>Your first email 🎉</p>",
}

email = senddart.Emails.send(params)
print(email["id"])

Every method returns the parsed JSON response — except the three binary download helpers (Emails.Receiving.get_attachment, Emails.Receiving.get_raw and Domains.records_csv), which return bytes. On any non-2xx status the SDK raises senddart.SendDartError carrying the API error body:

try:
    senddart.Emails.send(params)
except senddart.SendDartError as e:
    print(e.status_code, e.name, e.message)   # e.g. 422 validation_error "..."

Attachments

Attach files by hosted URL (path, fetched at send time) or inline base64 (content):

senddart.Emails.send({
    "from": "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
    "to": ["delivered@test.senddart.com"],
    "subject": "Your invoice",
    "html": "<p>Invoice attached.</p>",
    "attachments": [
        {"filename": "invoice.pdf", "path": "https://yourdomain.com/invoices/invoice.pdf"},
        {"filename": "report.csv", "content": base64_content, "content_type": "text/csv"},
    ],
})

Batch send

senddart.Batch.send([
    {"from": "hello@yourdomain.com", "to": ["delivered@test.senddart.com"], "subject": "Hi A", "html": "<p>A</p>"},
    {"from": "hello@yourdomain.com", "to": ["delivered@test.senddart.com"], "subject": "Hi B", "html": "<p>B</p>"},
])  # up to 100 emails per request

A batch succeeds in one of two ways, chosen by its size alone — branch on queued, not on the absence of an error:

Batch size	Status	Response	What happened
1–40	200	no queued key at all — never queued: False	every id in data is already handed to the mail service
41–100	202	queued: True, queued_count == len(result["data"])	ids are real, but the emails are still scheduled — nothing has been transmitted yet

result = senddart.Batch.send(payloads)
if result.get("queued"):
    # Accepted, not sent. Poll senddart.Emails.get(id) for the outcome.
    ...

Queuing is the only way the documented 100-email maximum can be accepted at all: 100 inline sends run past the platform's request ceiling. A batch carrying an @test.senddart.com simulator recipient in to, cc or bcc stays inline at any size. An inline batch near the 40-email boundary can take ~100s server-side, far past the 30s default senddart.timeout — raise it for batches that large, and always pass an idempotency_key, since a client that gives up mid-request cannot tell what was already sent.

Options

senddart.base_url = "https://www.senddart.com/api"   # override your API host
senddart.timeout = 30            # per-request timeout in seconds (default 30)
senddart.max_retries = 2         # auto-retry 429/503 responses (default 2; 0 disables)

Requests time out after 30 seconds by default. Automatic retries consider only HTTP 429 and 503 and honor Retry-After (with capped exponential backoff otherwise). Partial or uncertain results stop immediately. Generic 503 responses retry only reads or a send protected by an operation key; other writes need a documented rejection before processing. Network errors, timeouts, 409, 422, and other 5xx responses are never retried. See Recovery and tracking contracts below before retrying in application code.

Errors

SendDartError carries the {statusCode, name, message} envelope. Match on name and read status_code — messages are scrubbed server-side and a few handlers override the status a name usually maps to, so neither is safe to hard-code. Extra fields ride along on the exception:

try:
    senddart.Emails.send(params)
except senddart.SendDartError as e:
    if e.name == "daily_quota_exceeded":
        print(e.limit["used"], e.limit["limit"], e.limit["next_plan"])
    if e.retry_after:
        time.sleep(e.retry_after)
    print(e.body)          # the full parsed error body

try:
    senddart.Batch.send(payloads, options={"idempotency_key": "batch-1"})
except senddart.SendDartError as e:
    already_sent = e.sent          # [{"id": ...}, ...] — do NOT resend these
    print(e.sent_count)

The domain-first model

SendDart is DOMAIN-FIRST: each of your verified sending domains has its own contact pool — the same address on two domains is two records with separate consent. That means:

• Contacts take a domain (required to create/list on the flat /contacts API; disambiguates an email id on get/update/remove).
• Segments and Topics belong to a domain (domain required on create and list).
• Campaigns.create REQUIRES domain — it picks the contact pool the campaign targets (the from address may be a different verified domain).
• Automations.create REQUIRES domain, and Events.send REQUIRES domain — only automations belonging to that domain are triggered, so the same event name (e.g. user.created) across several products can never double-fire.

Resources

Each resource is a class with methods following a consistent create / get / list / update / remove shape (plus resource-specific verbs): Emails (with nested Emails.Receiving), Batch, Domains, Audiences, Contacts, ContactProperties, Campaigns, Segments, Topics, Templates, Automations, Webhooks, Events, ApiKeys (list only — see below), Logs, Polls.

# Emails
senddart.Emails.send(params)
senddart.Emails.list({"limit": 20, "after": cursor})   # cursor pagination
senddart.Emails.list({"status": "bounced", "search": "acme.com"})  # filters
senddart.Emails.list({"folder": "sent"})  # outbox / sent / scheduled / failed — any other value 422s
senddart.Emails.get(email_id)
senddart.Emails.update(email_id, {"scheduled_at": "2026-08-01T09:00:00Z"})  # reschedule
senddart.Emails.cancel(email_id)
senddart.Emails.sources()                # per-campaign/automation send metrics
senddart.Emails.list_attachments(email_id)
senddart.Emails.get_attachment(email_id, attachment_id)

# Inbound email
senddart.Emails.Receiving.list()
senddart.Emails.Receiving.list_addresses()    # per-address inbound stats
senddart.Emails.Receiving.get(email_id)
senddart.Emails.Receiving.list_attachments(email_id)
senddart.Emails.Receiving.get_attachment(email_id, attachment_id)  # -> bytes
senddart.Emails.Receiving.get_raw(email_id)                            # -> bytes (RFC822)
senddart.Emails.Receiving.forward(email_id, {"from": "me@yourdomain.com", "to": "delivered@test.senddart.com"})
senddart.Emails.Receiving.reply(email_id, {"from": "me@yourdomain.com", "html": "<p>Thanks!</p>"})
senddart.Emails.Receiving.remove(email_id)

# Domains (incl. claiming a domain verified elsewhere + one-click DNS)
senddart.Domains.create({"name": "yourdomain.com"})
senddart.Domains.verify(domain_id)
senddart.Domains.claim({"name": "yourdomain.com"})
senddart.Domains.verify_claim(domain_id)
senddart.Domains.detect_dns(domain_id)
senddart.Domains.apply_cloudflare_dns(domain_id, {"token": cf_token})
senddart.Domains.mx_check("yourdomain.com")   # live MX lookup
senddart.Domains.records_csv(domain_id)       # -> bytes (text/csv)

# Contacts (domain-first)
senddart.Contacts.create({"domain": "yourdomain.com", "email": "user@example.com", "first_name": "Ada"})
senddart.Contacts.list({"domain": "yourdomain.com"})
senddart.Contacts.get({"id": contact_id})                                # by id (exact) …
senddart.Contacts.get({"id": "user@example.com", "domain": "yourdomain.com"})  # … or by email + domain
senddart.Contacts.update({"id": contact_id, "unsubscribed": True})
senddart.Contacts.remove({"id": contact_id})
senddart.Contacts.batch({"audience_id": aud_id, "contacts": [{"email": "a@b.com"}]})
# Domain-first: import straight into a domain's pool, no audience id needed.
senddart.Contacts.batch({"domain": "yourdomain.com", "contacts": [{"email": "a@b.com"}]})
senddart.Contacts.import_csv({"audience_id": aud_id, "csv": "email,company\na@b.com,Acme"})
senddart.Contacts.create_import_upload({"audience_id": aud_id, "filename": "big.csv", "size": 90_000_000})
senddart.Contacts.add_to_segment(contact_id, segment_id)
senddart.Contacts.list_segments(contact_id)
senddart.Contacts.update_topics(contact_id, {"topics": [{"id": topic_id, "subscription": "opt_in"}]})

# Contact properties (custom fields / merge tags)
senddart.ContactProperties.create({"key": "plan", "type": "string"})

# Campaigns & Segments (domain-first)
senddart.Campaigns.create({"domain": "yourdomain.com", "from": sender, "subject": subject, "html": html})
senddart.Campaigns.send(campaign_id, {"scheduled_at": "tomorrow at 9am"})
senddart.Campaigns.stats(campaign_id)
senddart.Campaigns.engagement(campaign_id)   # who opened / clicked / replied
senddart.Campaigns.ab(campaign_id)
senddart.Segments.create({"domain": "yourdomain.com", "name": "VIP", "filter": {"status": "subscribed"}})
senddart.Segments.list({"domain": "yourdomain.com"})
senddart.Segments.contacts(segment_id)   # preview who matches

# Topics (domain-first)
senddart.Topics.create({"domain": "yourdomain.com", "name": "Product updates", "default_subscription": "opt_in"})
senddart.Topics.list({"domain": "yourdomain.com"})

# Templates
senddart.Templates.create({"name": "Welcome", "subject": "Hi {{first_name}}", "html": html})
senddart.Templates.duplicate(template_id)
senddart.Templates.publish(template_id)
senddart.Emails.send({"from": sender, "to": to, "template_id": tmpl_id, "variables": {"first_name": "Ada"}})

# Audiences
senddart.Audiences.list()
senddart.Audiences.import_sheet(audience_id, {"url": sheet_url})

# API keys (listing only — creating, re-scoping and revoking is dashboard-only)
senddart.ApiKeys.list()

# Logs & Polls
senddart.Logs.list({"limit": 100, "method": "POST", "status": 429})
senddart.Logs.get(log_id)
senddart.Polls.list()
senddart.Polls.get(email_id)

API keys are managed in the dashboard

ApiKeys.list() is the whole surface: the SDK deliberately exposes no method to create, re-scope or revoke a key. Key lifecycle belongs to a signed-in dashboard session, and the API enforces it — POST /api-keys, PATCH /api-keys/:id and DELETE /api-keys/:id answer 403 dashboard_only to any API-key caller, whatever its permission. That is the point: a key that leaks cannot mint itself a replacement, widen its own access, or revoke the keys you would use to shut it off. Create and revoke keys at senddart.com instead.

Automations & Events

Every automation belongs to one of your sending domains — domain is required on create, and Events.send names the domain it targets.

automation = senddart.Automations.create({
    "name": "Welcome series",
    "domain": "yourdomain.com",
    "trigger": "contact.created",
})

senddart.Automations.add_step(automation["id"], {
    "type": "send_email",
    "config": {"template_id": "tmpl_welcome"},
})
senddart.Automations.update(automation["id"], {"status": "enabled"})

# Fire a custom event — only yourdomain.com's automations are triggered
senddart.Events.send({
    "event": "signup.completed",
    "domain": "yourdomain.com",
    "email": "delivered@test.senddart.com",
    "payload": {"plan": "pro"},
})
senddart.Events.create({"name": "signup.completed", "schema": {"plan": "string"}})
senddart.Events.update(event_id, {"schema": {"plan": "string", "seats": "number"}})

# Inspect execution
runs = senddart.Automations.runs(automation["id"], {"limit": 25, "status": "failed"})
senddart.Automations.get_run(automation["id"], runs["data"][0]["id"])
senddart.Automations.stop(automation["id"])

The step graph is edited while the automation is disabled — add_step / update_step / delete_step (and changing domain, trigger or connections) all 422 on an enabled automation. Automations.create_with_ai builds or extends the graph from a prompt:

senddart.Automations.create_with_ai(automation["id"], {"prompt": "Wait 2 days, then send the welcome email"})

Webhooks

hook = senddart.Webhooks.create({
    "endpoint": "https://yourapp.com/hooks/senddart",   # must be https://
    "events": ["email.delivered", "email.bounced", "email.unsubscribed"],
})
signing_secret = hook["signing_secret"]   # shown ONCE, only here

senddart.Webhooks.list()
senddart.Webhooks.update(hook["id"], {"status": "disabled"})
senddart.Webhooks.rotate(hook["id"])    # new secret, returned once
senddart.Webhooks.test(hook["id"])

Verify incoming deliveries locally (no HTTP request) — pass the EXACT raw request body string, the svix-* headers, and your signing secret:

result = senddart.Webhooks.verify(raw_body, request.headers, signing_secret)
if not result["valid"]:
    abort(401)   # result["reason"] says why, e.g. 'no_match'

Pagination

list() methods accept optional cursor pagination — {"limit", "after", "before"}. limit is an integer 1–100 (default 20); after and before are item ids and cannot be combined. Responses are {"object": "list", "has_more": bool, "data": [...]} — there is no total and no next_cursor, so page forward with the last data[-1]["id"]:

page = senddart.Campaigns.list({"limit": 25})
while page["has_more"]:
    page = senddart.Campaigns.list({"limit": 25, "after": page["data"][-1]["id"]})

Called with no pagination params, most list endpoints return the whole collection up to a 1,000-item ceiling (Campaigns, Contacts, Segments, ContactProperties, Domains, ApiKeys, Topics, Polls, and the nested contact/segment/topic lists) — past that the response is truncated and has_more is True, so keep paging rather than trusting one call to be complete. Audiences, Automations, Automations.runs, Templates, Webhooks and Events cap at 20 instead — pass limit explicitly when it matters. An unknown cursor is not an error: it returns an empty page with has_more: False.

Idempotency

Pass an idempotency key to safely retry a send — replaying the same key returns the original response instead of sending twice:

senddart.Emails.send(params, options={"idempotency_key": "order-123"})
senddart.Batch.send(payloads, options={"idempotency_key": "orders-2026-08-08"})

• The key must be 1 to 255 characters — measured after the server trims it, so 255, not 256 (senddart.IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_MAX_LENGTH). The SDK sends the key verbatim and lets the server be the authority: an out-of-range key comes back as a SendDartError with name == "invalid_idempotency_key" (400).
• Emails.send, Batch.send, and received-email reply/forward honour it. Every other endpoint — including Events.send — accepts and forwards the header but the API ignores it, so a retry there creates a second resource. De-duplicate on your side instead.
• Reusing a key with a different body raises invalid_idempotent_request (409); reusing it while the first request is still running raises concurrent_idempotent_requests (409).

Documentation

Full docs: https://www.senddart.com/docs

License

MIT

Recovery and tracking contracts

Use a stable, unique operation key for each intended send, batch, reply, or forward. Keep the same key and payload when recovering that operation. These are the supported idempotent send endpoints; events do not implement this header. Existing calls without options still work.

senddart.Emails.Receiving.reply(email_id, reply, {"idempotency_key": "reply-operation-1"})
senddart.Emails.Receiving.forward(email_id, forward, {"idempotency_key": "forward-operation-1"})
health = senddart.Domains.tracking_health(domain_id)

Automatic retries consider only 429/503. They stop on an original email id, positive sent_count, nonempty sent or reserved, or batch_incomplete. An ordinary rate limit can retry; a generic 503 can retry a read or a send with the same supported key. Other writes retry only documented pre-processing rejections (service_unavailable, sending_service_unavailable, sending_configuration_unavailable, contacts_busy, contacts_timeout). No network/body-read failure, 409, 422, or other 5xx is retried automatically. The default transport refuses redirects; a custom transport/client must enforce its own policy.

On a failed or unconfirmed send, inspect id with the email retrieval method before creating another send. A 422 with an ID can identify an uncertain provider handoff; 422 does not always mean nothing happened. For interrupted batches, sent contains confirmed sends, reserved contains the original attempted prefix (including uncertain handoffs), and unsent_count counts the never-attempted tail. Do not resend the full batch or the reserved prefix under a new key. Reconcile original IDs first, then submit only known unattempted items as a new operation. Recovery fields remain available in the full error body as well as language-specific fields/accessors.

Tracking health returns custom_host, status (shared, ready, or unavailable), and checked_at. Configure custom tracking through the domain API and check health before relying on it. A healthy endpoint cannot guarantee an open event: recipients may block images, and coupon redemption alone is not proof that the tracking pixel loaded. SDKs preserve supplied HTML/text and do not infer opens or rewrite editor spacing.

Campaign cancellation also stops pending follow-ups for an already-sent campaign while retaining its sent history. Permanent received-email deletion acknowledges a durable cleanup request; attachment/object cleanup can finish asynchronously. Retrying that deletion is safe; it cannot be undone after the purge request is accepted.