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How to sync VideoAsk responses with our database?

  • 7 April 2023
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Hello community!
We have a web application that users should fill out some forms. We want to use VideoAsk for this part. But we have some unsolved questions here.

  1. How can we sync our database with the VideoAsk responses? We need to do some process on responses after they are submitted. So we need to have those responses in our database too.
  2. We have many users in our app. When they submit one of those forms, how can we recognize users from one another? We need a programatic way, is it possible to send user’s IDs to the VideoAsk like a hidden input so we can have them in responses too?

Thank in advance for your help.

Regards. 

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Best answer by andrew_videoask 7 April 2023, 18:30

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Hi @Bardiya, I’m excited to hear that you’re looking to add VideoAsk to your web app.

  1. What kind of database are you using? Regardless, there are two recommended approaches here. First, you can use a no-code tool like Make or Zapier. This will allow you to send responses (or elements within responses) to your preferred software/database without writing a line of code. The downside here is that you may need to pay an additional subscription for these integration providers and you may not have full flexibility, depending on what you’re trying to do. Second, you can use webhooks in VideoAsk. This requires you to set up a server and process the data yourself (using code), but it’s much more cost-effective and scalable. You control everything. 
  2. Yes! You can create a custom variable for user_id. As long as you pass in a user_id through the videoask link that respondents use, you’ll be able to see their corresponding user_id in their response data. 

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