Surveymonkey

This is a client for the SurveyMonkey RESTful API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'surveymonkey'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install surveymonkey

Usage

Authentication

The SurveyMonkey API is built on Mashery and works like other Mashery APIs. To access it, you'll need an API key and an access token; you'll be prompted to create these when you create a SurveyMonkey developer account.

Your API key is bound to a particular "application"; once you're logged into the SurveyMonkey developer site, you can create applications.

Access tokens are created via OAuth; you can either create one-off access tokens via the SurveyMonkey API console, or you can implement an OAuth flow of your own; there's more documentation here.

This gem requires that you specify both the API key and the access token at runtime. The access token can be changed between each API call; the API key is set once and then cannot be changed. Both of these can be read from environment variables, e.g.

$ export SURVEYMONKEY_APIKEY=XXXXXXXXXXX
$ export SURVEYMONKEY_ACCESSTOKEN=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

API Methods

The SurveyMonkey API methods are documented here, under "API Methods". They are implemented as class methods, which you call like so:

[1] pry(main)> Surveymonkey.get_user_details
=> {"status"=>0,
 "data"=>
  {"user_details"=>
    {"username"=>"XXXXXX", "is_paid_account"=>true, "is_enterprise_user"=>false}}}

To pass parameters to an API method, pass a hash like so:

[2] pry(main)> Surveymonkey.get_survey_list("page_size" => 5, "order_asc" => true)
=> {"status"=>0,
 "data"=>
  {"surveys"=>
    [{"survey_id"=>"XXXXXXXX"},
     {"survey_id"=>"XXXXXXXX"},
     {"survey_id"=>"XXXXXXXX"},
     {"survey_id"=>"XXXXXXXX"},
     {"survey_id"=>"XXXXXXXX"}],
   "page"=>1,
   "page_size"=>5}}

API method responses are parsed into Ruby data structures; do with them as you think best.

SurveyMonkey API responses include a status attribute. The possible values of this attribute are documented upstream; Surveymonkey::Client inspects each API response and raises a Surveymonkey::Error if the status code is other than 0.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

To Do

• implement support for API v3
• validate API method parameters client-side rather than server-side
• more unit tests
• better exception handling

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/hakamadare/surveymonkey/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Esteemed Contributors

• @KazuyaMuroi
• @cescue