Returns a record of all selection categories within your ConstructionOnline company account
https://api.constructiononline.com/SelectionCategories
This endpoint allows users to extract a record of all selection categories from their ConstructionOnline company account. Please note that this endpoint does not return any selections or selection choices belonging to each selection category.
Requests
Sample URL request:
- https://api.constructiononline.com/api/SelectionCategories
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/SelectionCategories -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/SelectionCategories"));
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/SelectionCategories"))
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/SelectionCategories");
Responses
200: Success
A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested selection categories in the body, as seen below. Definitions for all returned properties can be found here.
{
"ID": 616648,
"NAME": "Flooring",
"PRJ_ID": 1321099,
"PROJECTNAME": "3931 E Lake Blvd",
"DESCRIPTION": "",
"SORT_NUM": 1,
"TYPE": 0,
"TEMPLATE_ID": 0
}
404: Error
The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request.
429: Error
The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.
500: Error
There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.
Last updated: Mar 13, 2024