How can I answer surveys using the Typeform API?

Thank you very much for the reply @Liz ! I am trying to create a survey in an application built in react, with custom styles, that is, avoiding embedding the survey. I am currently using the typeform API to get the information from the form, including the images, question type, etc. To later acquire the answers and send them back to typeform, since it is something quite custom with respect to the design of the survey; but apparently I could not find in the documentation how to send these answers directly to Typeform.

Oh, I see. That’s interesting. Are you trying to send all the answers back into the typeform? If just a few, you could use hidden fields to pass the data back in, as long as you have other questions for the respondent to answer. 

 Ok @Liz , but would this imply submitting the responses via the url?

Hi @nani_ana That’s correct - you’d still need to submit the form through the Typeform URL. :\

Though, I’ll share this feedback with product. We’ve had a few different requests for this, all for various reasons. 

Okey! thanks a lot 

Not a problem! Let me know if there’s anything else I can answer for you, @nani_ana . 

I have a typeform, but for various reasons I do not want to display this form directly in the backend, but rather the input fields from my software (This has the reason that on the same page things are still calculated).

Is it possible to send this data to the typeform via API? I would need that so that the further actions are triggered directly, such as for example to transmit data to Hubspot etc..

Thanks in advance

Dylan

Hi @dylanryan Welcome to the community! I’ve added your post here where we have the answer. Let us know if you have any other questions!

Hi! I have a very complicated use case where one of our clients proxies won’t allow any url different than the one of our platform. So I was thinking to collect their data from a regular form, and send it to typeform through an API. But just for that client, the rest would just keep using the typeform embed we normally use. Is there anything we can do about this?

HI @motivy I’m afraid not, as we don’t have a solution for something like this at this time. Our of curiosity, do you mind sharing the use case? I’m guessing it’s for security purposes but just wondering so I can pass this along to our product team!

I'm also in need of this feature.

In our case, we have a Flutter mobile app in which we want to use Typeform forms to collect user feedbacks.

My first idea was to get the form through the developers API and use it's content to build UI at runtime, directly in Flutter, and then submit the answers.

I was surprised to find that we have ALL needed APIs (get list of forms, get single form, delete form, create form, get responses etc) but don't have a way to submit a response.

Because of this, we are going to have to use a web view in the app, which is both not supported officially by Typeform and much more complex to work with in the context of Flutter.