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eventbaxx API

If you want to create eventbaxx participants from anywhere – for example from your own website or mobile app – or if you want to retrieve participants from a specific eventbaxx, this is your place to be. We try our best to make this an easy and pleasurable experience for you.

1. Getting started

What do you need to add or retrieve participants to/from an eventbaxx?

  • An eventbaxx and the related Eventbaxx ID
  • An API Token
  • An eventbaxx with the API feature enabled (e.g. through the "PRO"-plan)
  • You need to be the owner of the eventbaxx you want to add participants for

1.1 Create an eventbaxx and note the `Eventbaxx ID`

After loggin in with your eventbaxx-organizer account, hit the “create eventbaxx” dialouge. After creating the eventbaxx, you will notice the Eventbaxx ID from the browser URL like this: www.eventbaxx.com/events/49/my-eventbaxx. In this case, the Eventbaxx ID is 49.

1.2 Retrieve your API token

  • Click on the account icon in the upper right corner
  • Scroll down the page and note down your API token

Note: The API token is only visible if you own at least one eventbaxx with the API feature enabled (e.g. with the "PRO"-plan). If you want to revoke your current API token, simply click on "Revoke API token" and we will immediately generate a new token for you.

Your API token can be used for API requests towards all eventbaxx' that you own.

2. API authentication

To prevent unauthorized participant calls or creations, API users need to authenticate by supplying their API token in the HTTP header.

AUTHORIZATION HEADER

Simply supply the eventbaxx API token in the HTTP header of your API call with the name "Authorization", like this:

curl -H "Authorization: Token 4c3d9ce826821dc0c5d15d753bd89ba4"

3. Create participants

You created an eventbaxx, noted down the Eventbaxx ID and you know how to authenticate with our API? Then head on to create your eventbaxx participants.

Participations POST endpoint

The API endpoint to POST participant details to is:

https://api.eventbaxx.com/v1/participations/:event_id

Replace the event_id placeholder with the desired Eventbaxx ID and you're good to go.

Participant parameters

The API endpoint to add participants accepts the following parameters:

  • email: The e-mail of the participant. Mandatory.
  • firstname: The first name of the participant. Optional.
  • name: The last name of the participant. Optional.
  • gender: The gender of the participant (‘male’,‘female’,‘andy’). Optional.
  • tags: Comma seperated tags to tag a participant (tag1,tag2,tag3). Optional.
  • send: Set to true if you want to email the eventbaxx URL to this participant straight after creation. Note that the default e-mail template of your eventbaxx will be used (the one highlighted with a star). You don’t want to set this to true if your e-mail template is not configured yet. Default: false. Optional.

Limitations: Participants of an eventbaxx are unique through the email. This means if you post the same participant two times, it will only get added to the eventbaxx once.

A valid POST request to your eventbaxx with the ID 49 looks like this: 

$ curl -i -X POST -d 'email=john@eventbaxx.com&firstname=John&name=Doe&gender=male'
\--header 'Authorization: Token 4c3d9ce826821dc0c5d15d753bd89ba4'
https://api.eventbaxx.com/v1/participations/49

The API responds with a 200 status code and the bag_code of the recently created participant: 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
MYKJEQSV

This bag-code can be used to access the created eventbaxx of the participant immediately:

https://www.eventbaxx.com/bags/MYKJEQSV

Note:The eventbaxx language is determined in the eventbaxx settings. You cannot change the language via the API.

4. Retrieve participants

Once your eventbaxx is boarded with participants, you might want to retrieve them.

Participations GET endpoint

The API endpoint to GET participants for a specific eventbaxx is this: 

https://api.eventbaxx.com/v1/participations/:event_id

Replace the event_id placeholder with the desired Eventbaxx ID and you’re good to go

Participant attributes

Participants contain of the following attributes:

  • id integer | ID of the participant
  • event_id integer | Eventbaxx ID of the eventbaxx this participant belongs to
  • firstname string | First name of the participant (default: null)
  • name string | Last name of the participant (default: null)
  • email string | E-mail of the participant
  • gender string | Gender of the participant (default: unspecified)
  • bag_sent boolean | Indicates whether you sent this participant an eventbaxx yet (default: false)
  • tags array | A list of tags associated to the participation (default: [])
  • bag_code string | The unique bag code of this participation. Can be used to access his/her bag via URL (e.g. https://www.eventbaxx.com/bags/HANDZDBH)
  • created_at datetime | Timestamp when this participant was created

A valid GET request to your eventbaxx with the ID 49 looks like this: 

$ curl --header 'Authorization: Token 4c3d9ce826821dc0c5d15d753bd89ba4'
https://api.eventbaxx.com/v1/participations/49

The expected response is:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

The response body is in JSON format:

[ {"event_id":102, "id":25204, "bag_code":"HUSYCAPN", "created_at":"2015-10-13T12:08:48.592Z", "bag_sent":false, "name":"Johannes", "firstname":"Schmitt", "email":"schmitt@eventbaxx.com", "gender":"male","tags":["tag1","tag2","tag3"]}, {"event_id":102, "id":25206, "bag_code":"YVNKFUGJ", "created_at":"2015-10-13T12:37:40.798Z", "bag_sent":false, "name":"Muller", "firstname":"Martin", "email":"muller@eventbaxx.com", "gender":"male"} ]