API v2 documentation required

User Support API
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Hi there,
I was looking for API documentation on the Kobo API’s and found following: Using the API — KoboToolbox documentation

Could someone please update the documentation? It’d be great to have to overview on how to interact with the different endpoints

  • assets
  • data
  • exports
    Instead of having to browse through 39 topics in the forum.

Thanks!

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Hi @Martine,

Welcome to community!

you can find more information in the api link, it is much broader than the link you have shared

https://eu.kobotoolbox.org/api/v2/

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Ah, great thanks, Osman.

I saw that section, and tried to access, but got a 404 and it turned out too cryptic for me to get to the right URL, reading over it briefly. Maybe consider rephrasing that section? and fill in [kpi_url] already?

And another suggestion for the actual API documentation; to make it more clear that you need to put ‘?format=json’ to be able to get an actual response (e.g. url = ‘[https://eu.kobotoolbox.org/api/v2/assets/?format=json’]).

I wasn’t aware and was stuck at retrieving an HTML response from the URL indicated in the documentation; just KoboToolbox Form Building API (without format)
Maybe it’s just because I’m not so familiar with working with APIs, and for others it’s more clear.
But still, with just following the example, you won’t get a correct output
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Hope those suggestions help for others as well :slight_smile: