Buttondown Documentation

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Updating a survey response

Update a survey response's text. Only the response owner (subscriber) can update their response.

Sample requests

These sample requests are autogenerated by the OpenAPI spec. This endpoint requires one or more parameters in the URL: those are offset in curly-braces.

import requests

url = "https://api.buttondown.com/v1/survey_responses/{id}"
headers = {
  "Authorization": "Token $BUTTONDOWN_API_KEY"
}

response = requests.request("PATCH", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Sample responses

The IDs and values referenced in these responses are fake; please only rely on these responses for overall structure.

{
    "id": "13121cd6-0dfc-424c-bb12-988b0a32fcb3",
    "creation_date": "2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00",
    "answer": "Red",
    "text": "",
    "survey_id": "13121cd6-0dfc-424c-bb12-988b0a32fcb3",
    "subscriber_id": "13121cd6-0dfc-424c-bb12-988b0a32fcb3",
    "email_id": null,
    "automation_id": null,
    "subscriber": null,
    "survey": null,
    "email": null,
    "automation": null
}

Body parameters

All parameters are optional unless explicitly specified.

text

Type
string
Description

The text response to update. Only applicable if the survey has freeform responses enabled.

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