UniOne Flask 1.1.3

Web API 1.90

Quickstart guide: Send emails with Python · Docs for LLMs: llms.txt · API reference

Flask integration of the UniOne Python SDK (``): the API client in the extension (app.extensions), a webhook endpoint with signature check.

Install

pip install unione-flask

Requirements: Python 3.8+, Flask 2.3+.

Get an API key

1. Sign up at cp.unione.io.
2. Copy your API key from Settings → Security → API.
3. Put it in an environment variable:

export UNIONE_API_KEY="your-api-key"

The package reads it from UNIONE_API_KEY (see the configuration below).

Server-side only. Use this package in backend code: API routes, server functions, workers. Never ship the API key to a browser or a mobile app, and never commit it.

Configuration

Settings are read from the environment by default:

from flask import Flask
from unione_wrapper import UniOne

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config["UNIONE_API_KEY"] = "YOUR_API_KEY"   # default: the environment variable
app.config["UNIONE_HOST"] = "us1.unione.io"
UniOne(app)

UNIONE_WEBHOOK_ENABLED = False turns the webhook route off. With Flask-WTF CSRFProtect exempt the endpoint: csrf.exempt("unione_wrapper._webhook").

Send your first email — no DNS setup

Every account can send test email right away from a sandbox domain: pre-verified, DKIM and SPF already set. It delivers only to addresses you confirm.

The examples use the API client of the package (see the configuration above).

1. Get your sandbox domain (domain/get-sandbox-domain). The call creates the domain on first use and returns the same one afterwards.

from unione_wrapper import get_client


@app.post("/sandbox-domain")
def get_sandbox_domain():
    response = get_client().domain.get_sandbox_domain()
    return {"domain": response.domain}

2. Confirm your inbox (confirmed-email/create). UniOne sends a confirmation email; click the link in it within 48 hours.

from unione_wrapper import get_client
from unione.api.confirmed_email import ConfirmedEmailRequest


@app.post("/confirm-email")
def confirm_email():
    response = get_client().confirmed_email.create(ConfirmedEmailRequest(
        email="you@example.com",
    ))
    return {"status": response.status}

Check the status with confirmed-email/list — your address should show "status": "confirmed".

3. Send the email (email/send) from any address on the sandbox domain to the confirmed address.

from unione_wrapper import get_client
from unione.api.email import EmailSendRequest, MessageObject, MessageObjectRecipientsItem
from unione.common import BodyObject


@app.post("/send")
def send():
    response = get_client().email.send(EmailSendRequest(
        message=MessageObject(
            recipients=[
                MessageObjectRecipientsItem(
                    email="you@example.com",
                ),
            ],
            body=BodyObject(
                html="<p>It works!</p>",
            ),
            subject="Hello from UniOne",
            from_email="noreply@<sandbox-domain>",
        ),
    ))
    return {"job_id": response.job_id}

What you get back

{
  "status": "success",
  "job_id": "1ZymBc-00041N-9X",
  "emails": [
    "you@example.com"
  ]
}

On error the API returns status: "error", a message and a numeric code:

{
  "status": "error",
  "code": 102,
  "message": "Error ID:83274F98-C7D5-11F1-B221-6214FF8707B1. Can not decode key wrongkey"
}

Same flow with curl

BASE=https://api.unione.io/en/transactional/api/v1

curl -s -X POST $BASE/domain/get-sandbox-domain.json \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-KEY: $UNIONE_API_KEY" -d '{}'

curl -s -X POST $BASE/confirmed-email/create.json \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-KEY: $UNIONE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"email": "you@example.com"}'

curl -s -X POST $BASE/email/send.json \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-API-KEY: $UNIONE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
        "message": {
          "recipients": [
            {
              "email": "you@example.com"
            }
          ],
          "from_email": "noreply@<sandbox-domain>",
          "subject": "Hello from UniOne",
          "body": {
            "html": "<p>It works!</p>"
          }
        }
      }'

Webhooks

The endpoint answers GET with 200 OK (the URL check of webhook/set) and accepts the POST notifications: it checks the auth field (MD5 of the request body in which the auth value is replaced by the API key), answers 401 to a wrong signature, and passes the notification and each of its events to the application.

from unione_wrapper import webhook_event_received


@webhook_event_received.connect_via(app)
def on_event(sender, event, user, **kwargs):
    data = event.event_data
    app.logger.info("%s %s %s", event.event_name, data.email, data.status)

Register the URL of the endpoint with webhook/set, e.g. https://example.com/unione/webhook.

API client

Every section of the API is available on the client, see the SDK docs.

from unione_wrapper import get_client


@app.get("/usage")
def usage():
    info = get_client().system.info()
    return {"emails_sent": info.accounting.emails_sent if info.accounting else None}

Sending through the API

The client calls email/send with all of its options: templates, substitutions, metadata, tracking. Fields of the request and other examples: Python SDK docs.

from unione_wrapper import get_client
from unione.api.email import EmailSendRequest, MessageObject, MessageObjectRecipientsItem
from unione.common import BodyObject


@app.post("/send")
def send():
    response = get_client().email.send(EmailSendRequest(
        message=MessageObject(
            recipients=[
                MessageObjectRecipientsItem(
                    email="user@example.com",
                    substitutions={
                        "CustomerId": "12452",
                        "to_name": "John Smith",
                    },
                ),
            ],
            body=BodyObject(
                html="<b>Hello, {{to_name}}</b>",
                plaintext="Hello, {{to_name}}",
            ),
            subject="UniOne test email ",
            from_email="email@example.com",
            from_name="John Smith",
        ),
    ))
    return {"job_id": response.job_id}

Sandbox limits

• Sends only to confirmed addresses: up to 10 per account.
• Up to 100 emails a day.
• The sandbox domain expires after 31 days; call domain/get-sandbox-domain again to get a new one.
• Works only with the account API key, not a project key.
• Not listed in domain/list; the other domain/* methods do not apply to it.

The sandbox is for development and testing. Do not use a sandbox domain as the sender in production.

Before production: verify your domain

1. domain/get-dns-records — returns the values for your DNS records.

2. Add these records at your DNS provider (the domain page of the control panel shows them too):

   Type	Host	Value
   TXT	@	the verification-record value (unione-validate-hash=…)
   TXT	<selector>._domainkey (the selector is on the domain page of the control panel, e.g. us)	v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=<dkim>
   TXT	@	v=spf1 include:spf.unione.io ~all
   CNAME	_dmarc	the dmarc value

3. domain/validate-verification-record, then domain/validate-dkim.

4. domain/list — wait until the verification record is confirmed and DKIM is active.

5. Read from_email from your config, so switching from the sandbox needs no code change.

Sending reliably

• Retries: set message.idempotence_key on sends that may be retried, so a repeated request does not send twice.
• Limits: up to 500 recipients and 10 MB per request; each attachment up to 7 MB.
• Body: always include body.html or body.plaintext.
• Delivery status: register a webhook (webhook/set) with a fast, idempotent HTTPS handler instead of polling.
• Defaults: keep the default unsubscribe footer and tracking; changing them requires UniOne support.
• Errors: retry 429 and 5xx with backoff; do not retry other errors unchanged.

Links

• Send emails with Python and other integration guides
• Web API reference
• llms.txt for AI coding agents
• UniOne MCP server and agent setup
• Support

For package contributors

See AGENTS.md: how this package is generated from the OpenAPI spec, built, tested and released.