How to send a confirmation email when adding a contact to group via API?

Question

I'm using the REST API to create contacts and add them to an existing mailing group. I want to add them as pending and trigger the confirmation email but I can't find a way to do it via the API.

The extension org.civicoop.emailapi seems like it does what I need but it only supports up to 4.6 and I'm running 5.0.2.

Are there any other options?

edit - I've installed org.civicoop.emailapi and it's working under 5.0.2, but I can't make it send the group confirmation email as it's not a normal mailing template.

edit - If I create my own mailing template, I can't find a token that generates the confirmation link for a specific user and a specific group. To be clear, I want to recreate the {subscribe.url} token from the Subscription Confirmation Request automated message.

Answer 1

We’re using civicoop email api extension on 4.7 and that means it should work on 5.x as well.

Answer 2

I've found the answer.

I was calling GroupContact > Create with parameter Status=Pending. This worked to create the pending contact but as far as I can find there is no way to then trigger the double opt-in email.

The solution is instead to call MailingEventSubscribe > Create, with parameters for email address and group id. This adds the pending GroupContact and sends the double opt-in email.

For my use case, I needed to create the contact at the same time, so I use separate API calls of Contact > Create, then MailingEventSubscribe > Create.