Exploring Typeform's Public API

Typeform is a versatile platform that allows you to create online forms, surveys, quizzes, and more. With its public API, developers can integrate Typeform with other applications, automate repetitive tasks, and extract data from Typeform submissions.

The Typeform API provides a wide range of endpoints to interact with a Typeform account, create and manage forms, retrieve form data, and more. In this article, we will take a look at some examples of how to use the Typeform API in JavaScript.

Getting Started

Before you can use the Typeform API, you need to obtain an access token. You can generate an access token in the Typeform developer portal.

Once you have your access token, you can use it to make requests to the Typeform API. You can use any HTTP client library to do this, but for this example, we'll use the axios library.

const axios = require('axios');

// Set up the axios instance with the Typeform API endpoint and access token
const instance = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'https://api.typeform.com',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN`
  }
});

// Example request to get a list of all forms
instance.get('/forms').then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Retrieving Form Data

Once you have a list of forms, you can retrieve individual responses to those forms using the responses endpoint. For example, to retrieve all responses to a form with a given form ID, use the following code:

// Example request to get all responses to a form
instance.get('/forms/FORM_ID/responses').then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Alternatively, you can retrieve a specific response using its response ID:

// Example request to get a specific response to a form
instance.get('/forms/FORM_ID/responses/RESPONSE_ID').then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Creating Forms

You can also use the Typeform API to create, update, and delete forms. To create a new form, send a POST request to the forms endpoint with the form's JSON representation in the request body.

// Example request to create a new form
const newForm = {
  title: "My new form",
  fields: [
    {
      title: "Name",
      type: "short_text"
    },
    {
      title: "Email",
      type: "email"
    }
  ]
};

instance.post('/forms', newForm).then((response) => {
  console.log(response.data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Conclusion

This is just a brief overview of what you can do with the Typeform API in JavaScript. You can find more information about the Typeform API, including detailed documentation for all endpoints, in the Typeform developer portal. With the API, you can easily integrate Typeform with other applications to automate your workflows and make data collection effortless.