I am trying to subscribe an email to a list on mailchimp, I followed the documentation first, made a request using "Postman" added what was needed and everything works just fine, so I tried to do it on my website and it didn't work
I tried to made a simple request with the same values I set on postman, but everytime I try to send the request the response says
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://us12.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/xxxxxx/members. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://mywebsite.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 501.
I tried to find a way to overcome this but it has been impossible
I searched on stackoverflow everybody says to use jsonp or add something to the ajax call or use a mailchimp ajax plugin nothing has worked
I tried diferent stackoverflow posts like this one Mailchimp subscribe using jQuery AJAX? but almost all of them say the same
I tried cache: false
dataType:jsonp
crossDomain: true
xhrFields: {withCredentials: true}
Here it is my code, I am using Jquery
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "https://usxx.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/xxxxxxxx/members",
data: { "email_address":email@adress.com, "status":"subscribed"},
headers: {
"Authorization": "Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
success: function(data){
alert('Thanks for subscribing');
},
error: function(data){
alert('there was an error, try again later');
}
});
I also Thought on creating my own api and then make the call to mailchimp api but I might ran into the same problem
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance