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GET Polls

Get a poll by custom ID

Fetches the poll, choices and optionally can return standing / results depending on state of the poll.

GET /api/v3/{appid}/poll/pollbycustomid/{customid}

This method requires authentication.

Fetches the poll, choices and optionally can return standing / results depending on state of the poll.

  • customid: (required) The customid of the poll to fetch.

  • entities: (optional = "poll"). Provide "poll", "choices", or "results" to get the desired data.

Request

Parameters

Values in the path and query string.

appid path
string TalkLabs ID required

The TalkLabs application ID assigned to your account.

Example: your-app-id
customid path
string customer-defined required

A customer defined ID chosen by your application. TalkLabs stores it so you can retrieve the resource without keeping its TalkLabs ID.

Example: live-event-chat
Response

Status codes

Every JSON response uses the API result envelope.

200 OK ApiResult
400 Bad Request ApiResult
403 Forbidden ApiResult
500 Internal Server Error ApiResult
Example response · 200
{
  "message": "Success",
  "errors": {},
  "data": {
    "kind": "poll.details",
    "poll": {
      "kind": "poll.poll",
      "id": "662da6fbe37d2e9ac76a562b",
      "appid": "662bb49bf10e9a26a7e8ed92",
      "ownerid": "u-8842",
      "title": "Sample Poll 1: Vote for your favorite color",
      "description": "Vote for your favorite color",
      "posterurl": "",
      "embedcontenttop": "",
      "embedcontentbotton": "",
      "whenpollpublish": "2024-04-28T01:31:39.262Z",
      "whenpollopens": "2024-04-28T01:31:39.262Z",
      "whenpollcloses": null,
      "whenpollexpires": null,
      "displayresults": 1,
      "sortanswers": 0,
      "customtype": "",
      "customid": "sample-poll-1-vote",
      "custompayload": "",
      "customtags": [],
      "customfield1": "",
      "customfield2": ""
    },
    "choices": []
  }
}
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