Create Vote

Add a vote to an option

Now that you have a Poll with some options, let's go ahead and add vote to it.

Add vote to an option in a poll

POST https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/create/vote

This endpoint helps you add a vote to an option

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Content-Type	string	application/json
api-key	string	API Key for your account

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
poll_id	string	ID of the Poll on which the vote will be added
option_id	string	ID of the Option the vote will be on
identifier	string	Custom field that can be used to store some identifier

200 Poll Created

{
  "status": "success",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "data": {
    "identifier": "user_12",
    "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
    "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
    "created_at": "2020-11-02T06:24:24.760Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-11-02T06:24:24.760Z",
    "id": "5f9fa6186477891e5bc646a5",
    "entity": "Vote"
  }
}

Example cURL Request

curl -X POST https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/create/vote \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "api-key: $API_KEY" \
  -d '
  {
      "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
      "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
      "identifier": "user_12"
  }
  '

Request Body

{
    "poll_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a1",
    "option_id": "5f9f7b186477891e5bc646a2",
    "identifier": "user_12"
}