Get Bills for a Project

Returns all bills for the project that corresponds with the provided ID

get https://api.constructiononline.com/Bills?projectID={id}

This endpoint allows users to extract all bills from a specific project within their ConstructionOnline company account. Users must know the unique ID assigned to the project to call this endpoint. 

Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

projectIDinteger

  • Unique identifier for the project.

Sample URL request:

  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Bills?projectID=1432504

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
# {projectID} with the project's ID


curl https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Bills?projectID={projectID} -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
{projectID} with the project's ID */

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/Bills?projectID={projectID}"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{projectID} with the project's ID

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/Bills?projectID={projectID}"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
           {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
           {apikey} with your provided API key 
           {projectID} with the project's ID */

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/Bills?projectID={projectID}");

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested bills in the body, as seen below. Definitions for all returned properties can be found here. 

{       "ID": 21,
        "TITLE": "Bill# 1432504-000",
        "BILL_NUMBER": "1432504-000",
        "COMPANY_ID": 23573,
        "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
        "ESTIMATE_ID": 504358,
        "CHANGE_ORDER_ID": 0,
        "DUE_DATE": "2024-09-30T00:00:00",
        "INVOICE_DATE": "2024-09-15T00:00:00",
        "RECEIVED_DATE": "2024-09-15T00:00:00",
        "PAID_DATE": null,
        "ACTIVE": true,
        "PAID": false,
        "READY_FOR_PAYMENT": false,
        "APPROVER": 0,
        "APPROVAL_DATE": null,
        "DATE_CREATED": "2024-09-13T14:35:28.273",
        "CREATED_BY": 885048,
        "SUBTOTAL": 92320.0,
        "TOTAL": 92320.0,
        "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
        "VENDOR_ID": 1551562,
        "LMOD": "2024-09-13T19:35:28.273",
        "LMOD_BY": 885048,
        "NOTES": "",
        "TRADE": 75300,
        "BILL_TYPE": 105762,
        "TRAFFIC_COLOR": 0,
        "ACCT_INT_ID": 0,
        "ACCT_INT_VENDOR_ID": 0,
        "SENT_TO_ACCT_INT_VALUE": 0.0,
        "ITEMS": [
            {
                "ID": 138,
                "PRJ_ID": 1432504,
                "BILL_ID": 21,
                "RELATED_ITEM_ID": 91401849,
                "ORG_RELATED_ITEM_ID": 91401849,
                "RELATED_ITEM_TYPE": 0,
                "IS_ADDITIONAL_ITEM": false,
                "PO_ID": 2392,
                "PO_ITEM_ID": 45342,
                "RECEIPT_ID": 0,
                "RECEIPT_ITEM_ID": 0,
                "COST_CODE_ID": 0,
                "TAX_TYPE_ID": 0,
                "TAX_PERCENT": 0.0,
                "NAME": "HVAC Subcontract",
                "DESCRIPTION": "",
                "QTY": 1.0,
                "UNIT": 90055,
                "RATE": 92320.0,
                "SUBTOTAL": 92320.0,
                "TOTAL": 92320.0,
                "TOTAL_COST": 92320.0,
                "SUBTOTAL_COST": 92320.0,
                "AMOUNT_PAID": 0.0,
                "AMOUNT_PAID_NO_TAX": 0.0,
                "ADDED_FROM_PO": false
            }
        ]
    }

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request.

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Sep 23, 2024