Survey Monkey API: /collectors/{id}/responses/bulk?start_created_at= Returns a Bad Request Error

Question

I'm using python 3.6.4. Trying to retrieve data from Survey Monkey API using the following:

access_token = 'xxx'
collector_id = 'yyy'

s = requests.session()
s.headers.update({
                  "Authorization": "Bearer %s" % access_token,
                  "Content-Type": "application/json"
                })
url = "https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/collectors/%s/responses/bulk?start_created_at=2020- 
02-11T23:20:00+00:00" % (collector_id) 
res = s.get(url)
dat = res.json()

Unfortunately this leads to the following error:

{'error': {'id': '1003',
'name': 'Bad Request',
'docs': 'https://developer.surveymonkey.com/api/v3/#error-codes',
'message': 'Invalid URL parameters.',
'http_status_code': 400}}

I found a post that addresses the same issue as here but the solutions provided there didn't work for me. Here is the post: start_created_at not working with /collectors/{id}/responses

Can someone point me in the right direction regarding how I can format the query string so that my URL parameter I'd like to filter by is valid?

Answer 1

You need to URL encode only the date/time portion of the URL. Try this:

timedate = '2020-02-11T23:20:00+00:00'
timedate_enc = urllib.parse.quote(timedate)
url = 'https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/collectors/%s/responses/bulk?start_created_at=%s' % (collector_id, timedate_enc)