Edit an existing lead in your ConstructionOnline company account
https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Leads?id={id}
This endpoint allows users to edit an existing lead within their ConstructionOnline company account. Users can update any of the lead's properties, such as its lead type, creation date, and lead quality. To update a lead, users must know the unique numerical ID assigned to the lead. The lead's ID is stored in the lead/contact property 'ID'. Users should enter the properties to be updated in the payload/body of the request. Only the properties specified in the payload will be updated. The other properties will remain as is.
Requests
REQUIRED PARAMETERS
id: integer
- Unique identifier for the lead.
Sample request URL:
- https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Leads?id=1233456
PAYLOAD EXAMPLE
Edited properties should be entered as JSON key-value pairs, as seen below:
{
"LEAD_QUALITY" : "3",
"LEAD_VALUE" : "40000"
}
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
# {id} with the lead's ID
# {data} with the payload containing edited lead properties
curl -X PUT https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Leads?id={id} -d '{data}'-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
{id} with the lead's ID */
public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, string payload) {
string username = {username};
string password = {password};
string apiKey = {apikey};
string response = "";
var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
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");
HttpContent content = new StringContent(payload, System.Text.Encoding.UTF32, "application/json");
response = client.PutAsync(endpoint, content).Result.ToString();
}
return response;
}
MakeRequest("api/Leads?id={id}");
Python
#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{id} with the lead's ID
import base64, requests, json
#Global Variables
apikey = {apikey}
username = {username}
password = {password}
#Functions
def makeRequest(endpoint, payload):
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.request("PUT", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)
#Main Program
print(makeRequest("api/Leads?id={id}"))
JavaScript
/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key
{id} with the lead's ID */
username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';
function makeRequest(endpoint, payload) {
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: 'PUT',
body: '',
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/Leads?id={id}");
Responses
200: Success
A successful request will return a 200 response with a record of the edited lead in the body.
A sample response and property definitions can be found here.
404: Error
The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. The ID may have been entered incorrectly or a lead with the entered ID does not exist.
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: Dec 7, 2023