Importing data into kobo via the REST api

[yaaminu]

Hello I’m trying to import data into kobo using the REST api but I keep getting an error.

What I want to do
We have data we’ve already collected on kobo but want to migrate it to a new form.

What I have tried
I have tried using the kobo REST api to achieve this using both the csv and JSON api endpoints. The documentation is found here: https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/api/v1/submissions. None of them worked, With the json, I get a missing CSRF token error while with the csv import I get you do not have permission to perform this action.

[Kal_Lam]

Welcome to the community, @yaaminu! Maybe you could do it as outlined in the post discussed previously (using python codes):

Importing xls data into KoBoToolbox

@sareep, a while back have created a method for converting XLS data into XML with a Python script so that they can be submitted via the API. This requires an existing deployed form to be in your account. Everything is documented in this repository: https://github.com/kobotoolbox/xls-import. I hope this works for you.