Research

Send Research Inquiry

POST /v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/research

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
research_area*	string	Research Area
research_stage_in_process*	string	Research Stage(valid input: 'collaboration', 'funding', 'partnership', 'other')
research_deadline	unix timestamp	Deadline

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', '[email protected]');
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('research_area', 'Research area...');
data.append('research_stage_in_process', 'collaboration');
data.append('research_deadline', 1714657477);
data.append('message', 'This is a test message to the expert...');

fetch('https://public-api.expertfile.com/v2/organization/:corporation/inquiry/research', {
    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

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