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SurveyMonkey: How do you determine a survey's ID?

For a given survey, how do you determine its survey_id for use with the SurveyMonkey API?

A list of all IDs is returned by the API method get_survey_list, and you could subsequently call get_survey_details on each survey to determine which one is the intended one, but that seems needlessly complicated. There has to be a way to get a survey's ID from the My Surveys page, right?

Edit: Use get_survey_list with title as a fields parameter]1. Therefore using get_survey_details isn't necessary.

Solution

  • If you want to get the survey ID via the web page you can:

    • Right click on the survey in the "ALL SURVEYS" surveys view, and press "Inspect Element" or "Inspect" depending on your browser.

    • In the bottom of the browser, you will see a highlighted block that starts with: <a href="/summary/...

    • Scroll up a few lines until you see a line that starts with: <tr class="survey-row" id=`

    • The number that follows id= is the survey id, which you can then use in the API.