Returns a record of all estimates within your ConstructionOnline company account
https://api.constructiononline.com/v2/estimates
This endpoint allows users to extract a record of all estimates from their ConstructionOnline company account. Please note that this endpoint does not return individual categories, subcategories, or items belonging to the estimate. This endpoint only returns a high-level estimate object, not the individual components of the estimate.
Requests
Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:
cURL
# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
curl https://api.constructiononline.com/api/v2/estimates -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'
C#
/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key */
public string GetData(string endpoint) {
  string username = "{username}";
  string password = "{password}";
  string apikey = "{apikey}";
  HttpResponseMessage response = null;
  HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
    using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
        client.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 30);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", 
            System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apikey);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
        response = client.GetAsync(endpoint).Result;
    }
    return response?.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
}
MessageBox.Show(GetData("api/v2/estimates"));
Python
#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
import base64, requests, json
apikey = "{apikey}"
username = "{username}"
password = "{password}"
def makeRequest(endpoint):
    url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
    userPass = username + ":" + password    
    headers = {
        "APIKey": apikey,
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
        "Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
    }
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)   
#Main Program 
print(makeRequest("api/v2/estimates"))
JavaScript
/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key */
username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';
function makeRequest(endpoint) {
    auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
    var myHeaders = new Headers();
    myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
    myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
    myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
    var requestOptions = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: myHeaders,
        redirect: 'follow'
    };
    fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
        .then(response => response.text())
        .then(result => console.log(result))
        .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
    return response;
};makeRequest("api/v2/estimates");
Responses
 200: Success
 200: Success
A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested estimates in the body, as seen below. Definitions for all returned properties can be found here.
{
    "ID": 367610,
    "NAME": "1342 S Ross St Estimate",
    "MARKUP_NAME": "Company Overhead and Margin",
    "TOTAL_PRICE": 565167.85714285728,
    "TOTAL_ALLOWANCE": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_COM": 198855.35714285722,
    "TOTAL_MARKUP": 460.0,
    "TOTAL_BASECOST": 365852.50000000006,
    "TOTAL_SALES_TAX": 0.0,
    "ORIGINAL_CONTRACT_VALUE": 565167.85714285728,
    "TOTAL_ACTUALS": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_COMMITTED": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_INVOICED": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_REMAINING": 564707.85714285728,
    "TOTAL_BALANCE": 565167.85714285728,
    "TOTAL_ADJUSTMENT": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_ADJUSTEDCOST": 365852.50000000006,
    "TOTAL_QB_ACTUALS": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_QB_INVOICED": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_QB_COMMITTED": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_LINKED_CO_PRICE": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_LINKED_CO_COST": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_CONTRACTPRICE": 366312.50000000006,
    "CREATED_BY": 999997,
    "DATE_CREATED": "2022-09-22T14:44:14.263",
    "CREATOR": "Alex Kim",
    "LMOD_BY": 999997,
    "LMOD": "2022-09-22T14:44:14.257",
    "MODIFIER": "Alex Kim",
    "FIVE_COLUMN_ESTIMATE": false,
    "ADVANCED_ESTIMATE": true,
    "COST_TOTAL": 365852.50000000006,
    "COST_ACTUAL": 0.0,
    "COST_INVOICED": 0.0,
    "COST_VARIENCE": 0.0,
    "COST_COMMITTED": 0.0,
    "COST_PAID": 0.0,
    "TOTAL_PROFIT": 460.0,
    "PROJECT_ID": 1312899,
    "PROJECT_NAME": "1342 S Ross St",
    "LAST_QBD_ESTIMATE_DATE": null,
    "LAST_QBD_ACTUAL_DATE": null,
    "LAST_QBD_INVOICE_DATE": null,
    "LAST_QBD_PO_DATE": null
}, 
{ 
     (estimates continued....)
}
 404: Error
 404: Error
The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request.
 429: Error
 429: Error
The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.
  500: Error
 500: Error
There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.
Last updated: Feb 7, 2024