Carriers

A carrier resource represents one of the many postal carriers that MyParcel.com works with to provide you with a broad range of contracts. This endpoint can be used to get a list of the postal carriers we support that the client can access. Carriers are included as relationships of services, contracts and pickup dropoff locations.

Carrier

See also

https://api-specification.myparcel.com/#tag/Carriers

Attribute	Type	Description
name	string	Carrier name, useful for displaying to users.
code	string	Unique slugified version of the carrier name.
logo_url	string	Url pointing to the carrier’s logo.
credentials_format	object	The format of credentials for this carrier’s contracts described using JSON Schema.
label_formats	array	The label mime-type and size combinations this carrier offers for shipments.
collections	object	Information about the carrier’s collection services.

The collections attribute

The collections attribute is an object containing two properties:

Property	Type	Description
offers_collections	boolean	Indicates whether this carrier offers collections.
voids_registered_collections	boolean	Indicates whether the carrier supports voiding of registered collections.

Endpoints

GET /carriers

Retrieving a list of carriers.

Scope

No scopes are required to retrieve carriers.

Request

GET /carriers HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/vnd.api+json
Example: https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers

Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "type": "carriers",
      "id": "be7f6752-34e0-49a1-a832-bcc209450ea9",
      "attributes": {
        "name": "MyParcel.com",
        "code": "my-parcel-com",
        "logo_url": "https://cdn.myparcel.com/images/myparcelcom-black.svg",
        "credentials_format": {
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "required": [
            "api_user",
            "api_password"
          ],
          "properties": {
            "api_user": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "api_password": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "label_formats": [
          {
            "mime_type": "application/pdf",
            "size": "A6"
          }
        ],
        "collections": {
          "offers_collections": true,
          "voids_registered_collections": true
        }
      },
      "links": {
        "self": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers/be7f6752-34e0-49a1-a832-bcc209450ea9"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total_pages": 13,
    "total_records": 373
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers?page[number]=3&page[size]=30",
    "first": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers?page[number]=1&page[size]=30",
    "prev": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers?page[number]=2&page[size]=30",
    "next": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers?page[number]=4&page[size]=30",
    "last": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers?page[number]=13&page[size]=30"
  }
}

GET /carriers/{carrier_id}

Retrieve a specific carrier.

Scope

No scopes are required to retrieve carriers.

Request

GET /carriers/{carrier_id} HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/vnd.api+json
Example: https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers/be7f6752-34e0-49a1-a832-bcc209450ea9

Response

{
  "data": {
    "type": "carriers",
    "id": "be7f6752-34e0-49a1-a832-bcc209450ea9",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "MyParcel.com",
      "code": "my-parcel-com",
      "logo_url": "https://cdn.myparcel.com/images/myparcelcom-black.svg",
      "credentials_format": {
        "additionalProperties": false,
        "required": [
          "api_user",
          "api_password"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "api_user": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "api_password": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "label_formats": [
        {
          "mime_type": "application/pdf",
          "size": "A6"
        }
      ],
      "collections": {
        "offers_collections": true,
        "voids_registered_collections": true
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "https://sandbox-api.myparcel.com/carriers/be7f6752-34e0-49a1-a832-bcc209450ea9"
    }
  }
}