SurveyMonkey has a great new API available that allows you to easily send someone an email programmatically. I ran into some hiccups while setting it up and there’s almost zero documentation out there.

Endpoint: This is provided at the end of setting up a survey. Should look like

https://cx.surveymonkey.com/api/v1/surveys/${fromSurvey}/replies

Headers

name="Content-Type" value="application/json"
name="Authorization" value="Token token=#apiToken#"

Body

{
    "person": {
        "email": "emailAddress",
        "first_name": "first name",
        "last_name": "last name",
        "fields": {
            "Custom Field": ["custom field value"]
        }
    },
    "delay": 0
}

The custom fields must match exactly what you put in your admin and you must pass it in as a list. If you don’t pass a list it won’t register. The delay is the number of days to delay sending the survey.

My full postman request is below with sensitive information redacted.

  "info": {
    "_postman_id": "d16018c3-53d9-4ebd-a47f-61a84505a04d",
    "name": "SurveyMonkey",
    "schema": "https://schema.getpostman.com/json/collection/v2.1.0/collection.json"
  },
  "item": [
    {
      "name": "Survey Monkey",
      "request": {
        "method": "POST",
        "header": [
          {
            "key": "Content-Type",
            "value": "application/json",
            "type": "text"
          },
          {
            "key": "Authorization",
            "value": "Token token=${apiToken}",
            "type": "text"
          }
        ],
        "body": {
          "mode": "raw",
          "raw": "{\r\n  \"person\": {\r\n    \"email\": \"email@gmail.com\",\r\n    \"first_name\": \"First\",\r\n    \"last_name\": \"Last\",\r\n    \"fields\": {\r\n      \"Products\": [\"Acme M500\", \"Acme B7500\"]},\r\n  \"facets\": {\r\n    \"Job ID\": \"1234\"\r\n  },\r\n  \"delay\": 24\r\n}"
        },
        "url": {
          "raw": "https://cx.surveymonkey.com/api/v1/surveys/${fromSurvey}/replies",
          "protocol": "https",
          "host": ["cx", "surveymonkey", "com"],
          "path": ["api", "v1", "surveys", "${fromSurvey}", "replies"]
        }
      },
      "response": []
    }
  ]
}