Get Entries

Get the entries for a particular Form for a Project, mapped using either your custom mapping or the EC5 AUTO mapping. If the project is private, an access_token must be provided (See: API Authentication).

We assume the base domain to be five.epicollect.net.

HTTP REQUEST

GET /api/export/entries/{project_slug}?{key=value&key=value...}

Query Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
project_slug	yes, as url segment	The slugified project name.
form_ref	no	The ref used to identify a form. If this is not supplied, the first form form_ref will be used by default.
uuid	no	The unique identifier for a particular entry.
parent_form_ref	no	The form ref of a child form's parent.
parent_uuid	no	The uuid of a child entry's parent.
map_index	no	The integer index of the particular mapping you want the data to be mapped against. The default mapping is used if none is supplied.
per_page	no	The number of entries to show per page. (integer, max 1000). Default is 50.
page	no	The current page. (integer)
sort_by	no	The column on which to sort.
sort_order	no	The sort order for the entries: ASC (ascending) or DESC (descending).
filter_by	no	The column on which to filter.
filter_from	no	The value to filter from.
filter_to	no	The value to filter to.
format	no	Get the data in csv format
headers	no	Whether you need the csv headers.
title	no	A title to filter on (What is a title?)

Further Descriptions

project_slug

The project_slug is slugified version of the project name. Any spaces in the project name are replaced by a hyphen "-" to make it url safe. To retrieve it, check the Developers section on your project details page. From the same page you can download the full project definition in JSON format. It is used as a segment in the request url.

form_ref

The form_ref is a unique identifier assigned to each form. To retrieve it, check the Developers section on your project details page. From the same page you can download the full project definition in JSON format.

uuid

The uuid is a unique identifier for an entry. To retrieve a uuid, check the id or entry_uuid attribute of an entry object.

parent_form_ref

The parent_form_ref is the form ref of a parent form to which a child form is related. To retrieve it, check the Developers section on your project details page. From the same page you can download the full project definition in JSON format.

parent_uuid

The parent_uuid is a unique identifier for an entry to which a child or children entries are related. For example, if I have a University form entry "Imperial College", it may have 0, 1 or more Department form entries related to it, such as "DIDE", "Biology" etc and each of these child form entries will be related back to the parent entry via the parent_uuid.

To retrieve this, check the parent.data.parent_uuid attribute of an entry object.

format

Accepted values are csv or json. The default, if none is supplied, is json.

headers

Whether to include headers when the format is csv. Accepted values are true or false. The default, if none is supplied, is true.

Sorting

You can currently sort by the columns created_at and uploaded_at by "ASC" (ascending) or "DESC" (descending) order.

Filtering

You can currently filter by the columns created_at and uploaded_at. You may choose a DATE value (in ISO 8601 format, like 2022-01-26T00:00:00.000) on which to filter: "filter_from" (all the entries from a value), "filter_to" (all the values to a value) or "filter_from" and "filter_to" (all the entries between two values).

Title

You can filter entries by their titles passing a search string.