Expert Witness

Send Expert Witness Inquiry

POST /v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/expertwitness

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Url

Name	Type	Description
corporation	number	Corporation ID

Body

Name	Type	Description
firstname*	string	Sender first name
lastname	string	Sender last name
email*	string	Sender email address
phone	string	Sender phone #
website	string	Sender website
organization	string	Sender company
message*	string	Sender message
location_city	string	Sender city
location_state	string	Sender state/province See full list here
location_country	string	Sender country See full list here
username*	string	Recipient(Expert) username
expertwitness_organization_type*	string	Organization Type(valid input: 'legal_firm', 'corporate_legal_department', 'insurance_provider', 'government_agency', 'legal_nurse_consultant', 'other')
expertwitness_stage_in_process*	string	Stage in process(valid input: 'investigation', 'in_litigation', 'approaching_trial','other')

Response

200

{ 
    data: { 
        id: <INQUIRY_ID>
    }, 
    success: true 
}

Code

Node

const data = new URLSearchParams();
const accessToken = `<ACCESS TOKEN>`

data.append('firstname', 'Testfirstname');
data.append('lastname', 'Teslastname');
data.append('email', '[e-mail]');
data.append('phone', '[phone]');
data.append('website', 'https://mywebsite.com');
data.append('organization', 'NYT');
data.append('location_city', 'New York City');
data.append('location_state', 'NY');
data.append('location_country', 'US');
data.append('username', '<EXPERT USERNAME>');
data.append('expertwitness_organization_type', 'other');
data.append('expertwitness_stage_in_process', 'investigation')
data.append('message', 'This is a test message to the expert...');

fetch('https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/expertwitness', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`
    },
    body: data
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(json => {
    const { success, data, error } = json

    if (success) {
        const { id } = data
        console.log('New inquiry id', id)
    }

})
.catch(error => console.error(error));

PHP

$accessToken = urlencode('<ACCESS TOKEN>');

$url = 'https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/expertwitness';

$data = ['firstname' => 'Testfirstname',
'lastname' => 'Teslastname',
'email' => '[e-mail]',
'phone' => '[phone]',
'website' => 'https://mywebsite.com',
'organization' => 'NYT',
'location_city' => 'New York City',
'location_state' => 'NY',
'location_country' => 'US',
'username' => '<EXPERT USERNAME>',
'expertwitness_organization_type' => 'other',
'expertwitness_stage_in_process' => 'investigation',
'message' => 'This is a test message to the expert...'];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt(
    $ch,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
    array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $accessToken)
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$json = json_decode($response);

if($json->success){
    var_dump($json->data);
}

curl_close($ch);

Curl

curl -X POST https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/expertwitness \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS TOKEN>" \
    -d '{ "firstname": "Testfirstname","lastname": "Teslastname","email": "[e-mail]","phone": "[phone]","website": "https://mywebsite.com","organization": "NYT","location_city": "New York City","location_state": "NY","location_country": "US","username": "<EXPERT USERNAME>","expertwitness_organization_type": "other", "expertwitness_stage_in_process": "investigation", "message": "This is a test message to the expert..." }'