This would be very powerful for a bunch of existing integrations as well as new ones. For example, it would enable a service like CallHub to support members signing petitions via SMS. It would enable email your MP tools to track against petition pages directly within NationBuilder. It would also enable tools to report on a nation's core activities and track successes across a great range of actions.

Ideally, it would allow developers of external tools to work with NationBuilder's petitions as well as petition signatures, in the same way that we can already work with events and RSVPs (that event resource provides the best analogy).

I would say the key components would be:

1. Index endpoint (to return all petitions per site)
2. Create endpoint (create a new petition)
3. Show/update/delete endpoints (these are less important to us, but useful all the same :)
4. Petition signature Count endpoint (return the number of people who have signed a given petition)
5. Petition signature Index endpoint (return the NationBuilder IDs, first names and emails of everyone who has signed a given petition)
6. Petition signature Create endpoint (add a new signatory to a given petition)

Thanks for considering!

Would like an API to access followups set for a person (or all persons) and assigned to a user (or any user).

Do you support integration using Zapier.com? This would be very helpful as it supports hundreds of different integrations in one package. Thanks!

We are not able to add relationships either between people with each other or with an organization through the API provided by NationBuilder.

We are trying to add various types of users on NationBuilder, such as adding a student and a school. However, we want to assign that a particular student has the relation "Student At" his/her school. This assignment is not available as the current API version does not support the endpoint "Relationships".

Is there a solution to set these relationships?

Thanks

Mohamed Hisham

I think NB needs a bug tracker. Is there one I'm missing. Currently, we report bugs via point people or by developer email addresses that we happen to have. This system does not work for a variety of reasons. 

I've reported many bugs via point people, and mostly they are misunderstood or ignored. I am sitting on about a dozen low or medium priority bugs that I'd happy report, but since I can only do so through point people I only report major, show-stopping bugs. And even then they usually don't get through to the engineers until I start squeaking. 

A professional bug tracker that the engineering team can directly access, without point people as gate keepers, is important. 

When I hit the search endpoint for a name, for example, I have to use the exact name to return a result. For example, if I search for first_name=brad it won't return results for 'Bradley'. 

In addition, searching for names of organizations doesn't return results at all.

What is the status on webhooks/api access to paths?

According to http://nationbuilder.com/feature_comparison , it looks like the Developer API is only going to be available on plans starting at a thousand dollars a month now?  This effectively kills off the developer market entirely.

Was this intended?  The Developer API was one of the main reasons I came to NationBuilder, and I keep my community hosted here.  It's also been a huge reason for me to promote NationBuilder as an option amongst other non-profits, but the new pricing effectively destroys the potential of usage by most non-profits... 

Is there any form of the API being left in the lower tiered plans?

-Reed

I'd like to call into the API from within some JavaScript code, purely running in the browser.

How can you authenticate safely if you want to use the API purely on a client side application?  Many APIs allow you to restrict a token to a single or set of referrers (so they only work on sites under certain domains).  Is there a similar mechanism within NationBuilder's API?

Would be great if the Donations API could be opened up to read/write or that the Invoicing function be added as a read/write API so that we're able to post different types of transactions info.  

For instance, an e-commerce solution could post customer sales back to the Nation either as a donation using a tracking code or by generating and closing an invoice.  

Has anyone already written code to synchronise People data between NationBuilder and a Civicrm site, using the two APIs?

We need to do that between our existing membership database and our NationBuilder site. I'd be interested to hear of any experiences from those who have already tried to do that.

As noted else where in support, Contacts apparently default to date the contact was entered, and don't allow option to edit date to that on which contact actually occurred.  This, ought to be fixed generally, and the option to edit the date added to the Contacts API

Is the survey aspect of the API live?  When I try to update survey questions I get this response back: 

{
    "code":"not_found",
    "message":"Record not found"
}

I am using this json to pass it through:

{
"survey_response": {
"survey_id": 1,
"person_id": 2,
"question_responses": [{
"question_id": 2,
"response": 1
}, {
"question_id": 1,
"response": "yes"
}, {
"question_id": 3,
"response": "cool"
}]
}
}

Hi, 

It would be a huge help if paths and steps were included in the API.  Then we could automate much more of the importing and tracking that we do.  The feature has been out for a while and it seems intuitive that the feature would be included in the API.  Thanks so much!

Jenny Landon

Represent.Us

I'm working for a non-profit that is running a pledge drive, and has pledge form on its website.  Is there any way we can move pledge data into NationBuilder via the API?  I don't see pledges referenced anywhere in the documentation.

I would like an API to access the Activity Stream, as the Contacts API is only showing a portion of the communications relevant to a person.  My present objective is simply to access the same information as is shown in the People dashboard in read only format.

It would be great to see the ability via the API to get any existing relationships a person has and add new ones, as you can do via the GUI.

Any thoughts on an email API that could help supporters recruit others? For example, I want to start a recruiting drive where each supporter recruits at least two others. I'd like to create an app that allows people to enter a few emails, use default/editable text, and send emails out right from the page on their behalf. 

I've got a script working nicely where a user visiting a WordPress site can fill out their name and email address, check the opt-in box, and sign up to a list on NationBuilder. But I can't seem to find any information on how to have NationBuilder send a verification email or double opt-in message to the new user to confirm that the email is valid and they do really truly want to be on this list. How would we go about this using the API?

With the current People API you can add a note to a person's profile which is great! However, it would be fantastic if you could also get those notes too via the API.

I'm using the NB api via PHP. The GET/DELETE methods both work but no matter what I try I can not edit or add a new people resource using the client->fetch() function.

The error code is always a 400 no matter how I format the parameters. Please help and don't give me a canned response to the API helper because I've spent 3.5 hours already trying various things in the documentation which is thin to say the least.

At the moment, you can GET people/search with geographical filters City and State. It would be nice to able to also filter (for instance) on Address 1, or Street Number, Name, and Type, or ZIP. (ie. we would like to see more geographical / primary address filters exposed through the API.)

I'm having problems with the bulk tag removal API. For example, using the API explorer for my nation I send the following:

DELETE | Bulk Tag Removal|

/people/:id/taggings with id = 123 and body:

{ "tagging": { "tag": ["hello"] } }

I get response code: 400 { "code":"missing_parameters","message":"Missing Parameters.","parameters":["tagging"]}

In contrast, the API for adding tags works as expected. This has exactly the same syntax except the request is a PUT not a DELETE.

When adding a tag to someone in your database, the 'person changed' webhook will not fire until you save that profile or a different profile in the database. This makes syncing tags with an external database a challenge.

Any chance we’ll see access to the Page Comments API in the near future? I’d love to be able to leverage Disqus comments without sacrificing the value of the native comment platform (i.e., creating new signup records and appending comment information to existing ones).

I'll frame this question in a general way so it applies to other 3rd party app developers, not just me:

What level of API integration are NB customers asking for?

For example, if you build a third-party app that can help members of a nation interact with each other (i.e. group chat or something else), there are several ways I can imagine that you'd want to integrate it with NB, each with a different level of complexity:

• No integration: Just listing an app in the app directory, essentially as an ad for the app-- probably not an option.
• Minimal integration: Include the app in an iframe and have either no sign-in requirement or require that the members of the nation sign in a second time within the app's iframe as part of the app's authentication process.
• Deep integration: Connect to the People API so that members of a nation can sign into your app from within a NB page for that nation.
• Other options?

Are any of those options emerging as common or recommended?  

What are NB customer expectations around 3rd party app integration?  I don't expect they'd be too happy with requiring that the members of their nation sign in twice-- once to NB and once to the app.  That's what I found with one client I worked with.

Thanks!

When I install Field Edge it doesn't appear in Installed Apps or in the app listing. This makes me concerned it's not installed. 

There doesn't seem to be a way to either create pages as sub pages through the api or to attach existing pages to other pages as sub-pages.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

I have imported a number of records via the API, which all have an email address and email_opt_in='Y', but the
records are being imported as PROSPECTS. Whereas http://nationbuilder.com/how_support_status_is_determined says:

"Records imported with:

  * support level = 1
  * support level = 2
  * email address and email opt-in = Y
  * mobile number and mobile opt-in = Y

will always be supporters."

When i do something link this in PHP:

$params = array(
    'person' => array(
      'email' => '[email protected]','home_address' => array('country' => 'Germany', 'zip' => '66666' ))
);

$header = array('Authorization:' => $token,'Content-Type:' => 'application/json', 'Accept:' => 'application/json');
$response = $client->fetch($baseApiUrl . '/api/v1/people/push?access_token=myaccesstoken', $params, 'PUT',$header);
print_r($response);

i get the following response

Array
(
    [result] => Array
        (
            [code] => missing_parameters
            [message] => Missing Parameters.
            [parameters] => Array
                (
                    [0] => person
                )

            [inner_error] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Api::Error::MissingParameters
                    [message] => Missing parameters: person
                )

        )

    [code] => 400
    [content_type] => application/json
)

Whats wrong with the Parameters? Do i need to add something else to the Params?

In some tests I noticed that responses from /oauth/token have the attribute "expires_in". This attribute isn't included in the quick start guide example response, and a colleague found an article about access_tokens no longer expiring. Anyone have more information about this topic?

This is needed to ensure proper cotnact synchronization between an external database and NationBuilder. You can delete from NB, but no webhook fires when data is removed or merged.

There is an Exports API for a specific list. (POST /api/v1/lists/:list_id/exports). Is there an API to export all people from a nation?

Hi,

We're using the NB people API with PHP and the adoy/oauth2 library. Recently, whenever our site makes a PUT to /api/v1/people/push, we seem to be receiving a code 400 error with no message attached. 

Code:

$payload = array(
'person' => array(
'first_name' => $first_name,
'last_name' => $last_name,
'email' => $email,
'note' => 'Sign up from web form at ' . DB::now(),
'email_opt_in' => true
)
);

$api_url = $baseApiUrl . '/api/v1/people/push';

$response = $client->fetch($api_url, $payload, 'PUT', array('Content-type' => 'application/json', 'Accept' => 'application/json'));

The response comes through like this:

(

    [result] => 

    [code] => 400

    [content_type] => text/plain; charset=utf-8

)

Can anyone point me in the direction of what isn't right here?

Thanks,

Sam

hi,

I am new to using the nation builder api. I have added multiple contacts to my account and trying to search on them using various fields. But I am unable to get the results.

The following person exists in my contacts and i can get it when I use first_name and last_name in the search parameters, but If i use city or state i am unable to get results.

https://slugName.nationbuilder.com/api/v1/people/search?first_name=Jennifer&last_name=Rolle

primary_address: {

Hi folks, we'd like to add some JS actions—adding content to fields—to an NationBuilder form on submit before the form validation/send is triggered. However binding on the form submit handler triggers after the NationBuilder actions and the data is not captured.

Is there an elegant/sanctioned way to hook into the event dispatcher? Essentially I need a callback before the form submits though NationBuilder XHR channels. Someone has a gist of how to do this, but the timing of this isn't correct (form still submits).

Would love to see the API access lists

I've been using the new 123contactform integration and it is fantastic!  But...it seems to be missing some standard fields that are available in the people/edit page on NB. 

From 123contactform you can map to home, meetup (what is this? it doesn't seem to exist on the NB side), billing, and mailing addresses, but there is no work address available.

Also, the primary address is there, but according to other posts I've seen, the primary designation is set to whatever address gets populated first.  When mapping from 123contactform to NB on the primary address fields, it doesn't populate because of that.

There is also no work phone available. 

Can you make work phone, work address, and website available in the integration?

Hello,

When deleting a blog, the blog posts themselves are not deleted and can still be viewed on the site by their URL and found via search. How do we use the NationBuilder API to access blog posts of a deleted blog? All of the blog post methods require a blog ID.

Used it quite a bit 2 years ago to great effect. Now it loops between choose site page and back to login page. Choosing a site seems to log me back out.

Still working for other people?

Right now, the only way to find out how many people are tagged with a specific tag in your nation, via the API, is to call the people method, which returns a paginated list of people with that tag. You then have to go through every page, incrementing the counter for every person. Needless to say this involves a fair few API calls for large tags.

There's already a tag index where you can see a list of tags - we just need that index to include a number too.

For my organization's use case, we need a synchronization of all donation records, in order to produce financial reports, and for other uses.  This requires high reliability of the synchronization process.

1. Webhooks provide a synchronization potential with the downside that, like webhooks of other internet-based services, there is almost no feedback about webhook invocation failures.  This makes not meet the requirements of our use case.
2. Querying the table of donation records as a replacement, or a verification procedure, of the webhook method would be workable.  However, since donations do not currently provide a search endpoint with an "updated_since" parameter, this creates the problem of having to download the whole donation table each time a synchronization is required.  This limitation makes the method virtually unusable for production employment in our use case.

Could you lift any of these limitations, or is there another way to solve this problem.  Again, we have the legal necessity of not missing any records, or misrepresenting any record fields.

Thanks,

--

Pav

When I hit the following url:

https://mysitename.nationbuilder.com/api/v1/sites/mysitename/pages/blog/attachments?access_token=mytoken

with the data:

{"attachment":{"filename":"flower-tiny.jpg","content_type":"image/jpeg","content":"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/4QBARXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgAAYdpAAQA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\nAxNTESdSPNBQjTpwhbTmcmm5Tle1m0t5O+tj/9k=\n","updated_at":"2014-01-03T11:19:23-06:00"}}

I get a 500 error. Any way I can get this to work?

Thanks,

Steve

I think a new method is needed to list a nations custom fields and their types. For instance by only being able to view a custom field on a person I am unable to tell the difference between a text and a multiple choice field.

Also I am unable to infer the possible options for a multiple choice field if there is no person with that option. 

Using the API, how can I update which address is currently used as the primary address? e.g. mailing, home, billing, ... It would also make sense if the person object included which address is currently set as the primary address. This is helpful to know which address to update.

We have received reports that users may find it helpful to list all people on a specific step within a specific path using our API. Currently, we offer the ability to index paths and search people, but not the ability to search people on a specific path or step.