tap-surveymonkey

This is a Singer tap that produces JSON-formatted data following the Singer spec.

This tap:

• Pulls raw data from SurveyMonkey

• Extracts the following resources:

  • Surveys
  • Responses
  • Simplified Responses

• Outputs the schema for each resource

• Incrementally pulls data based on the input state

To pull all surveys, the configuration parameters access_token and start_date are required.

To pull responses or simplified responses for a survey, the configuration parameters access_token, start_date, and survey_id are required. The parameter page_size (default: 50, max: 100) is optional to adjust the response-size for faster response times or larger batches thereby and reduced number of API-calls.

The surveys and responses resources will pull data in the form described on the SurveyMonkey API docs.

The Simplified Responses resource will pull a Response schema, with an extra key simple_text embedded in each of the answer dictionaries, which is a human-readable form of the survey respondent's response to question. It also contains the family, subtype, and heading keys in the question object, for easy reference.

Quick Start

1. Install

   Clone this repo

   git clone ...
   

   We recommend using a virtualenv:

   virtualenv -p python3 venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip3 install -e .
   

2. Create a SurveyMonkey access token

   Login to your SurveyMonkey account, go to SurveyMonkey app directory, and put stitchdata in the search box to find the Stitchdata app. In there, you can authorize to get an access token.

3. Set up your config file.

   An example config file is provided in sample_config.json, the access token and survey in that file are invalid, and will error out. Replace them with your own valid ones.

   survey_id is required only for the responses and simplified_responses streams. It can be acquired within the same page where it shows the access token. Also, it can be retrieved by running the tap with the survey_details stream, or by using the /v3/surveys endpoint on the SurveyMonkey API.

4. Run the tap in discovery mode to get catalog.json file.

   tap-surveymonkey --config config.json --discover > catalog.json
   

5. In the generated catalog.json file, select the streams to sync.

   Each stream in the catalog.json file has a schema entry. To select a stream to sync, add "selected": true to that stream's schema entry. For example, to sync the survey_details stream:

   "tap_stream_id": "survey_details",
       "schema": {
           "selected": true,
           "properties": {
               ...
           }
       }
   ...
   

6. Run the application

   tap-surveymonkey can be run with:

   tap-surveymonkey --config config.json --catalog catalog.json
   

7. To run with Stitch Import API with dry run:

   tap-surveymonkey --config config.json --catalog catalog.json | target-stitch --config target_config.json --dry-run > state.json
   

Streams

survey_details

• Endpoint: https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys/[survey_id]/detail
• Primary keys: id
• Replication strategy: INCREMENTAL
  • Bookmark: date_modified (date-time)

responses

• Endpoint: https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys/[survey_id]/detail
• Primary keys: id
• Replication strategy: INCREMENTAL
  • Bookmark: date_modified (date-time)

simplified_responses

• Endpoint: https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys/[survey_id]/detail
• Primary keys: id
• Replication strategy: INCREMENTAL
  • Bookmark: date_modified (date-time)

Developing

While developing the tap, run pylint to improve better code quality which is recommended by Singer.io best practices.

pylint tap_surveymonkey -d missing-docstring -d logging-format-interpolation -d too-many-locals -d too-many-arguments

To check the tap and verify working, install singer-tools.

tap-surveymonkey --config tap_config.json --catalog catalog.json | singer-check-tap

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