ProdegeMR API

1. Overview

The API allows buyers to tap into ProdegeMR's proprietary online sample on-demand. The API exposes several methods which will allow buyers to:

• Lookup ProdegeMR's library of qualifications which can be used for feasibility and quota specification
• Run feasibility queries against ProdegeMR's panel
• Submit new projects, update existing ones
• Specify the quotas for submitted projects
• Perform reconciliation on project transactions

2. Getting Started

Acquiring API Credentials

Before using the Prodege API you must acquire a unique API Key and Secret Key. These keys will be used to authenticate your requests to the Prodege API. Details regarding request authentication can be found in the Authentication section of this document. To acquire your API credentials, contact apisupport@prodegemr.com

Staging Environment

The Prodege API has a staging environment that can be used for testing integration with test user accounts.

Staging Prodege user API Key:

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Staging Prodege user Secret Key:

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Base URL for Prodege API requests to Staging Environment:

https://surveypmr.prodegeapisqa.com/prodegemr

Base URL for Prodege API requests to Production Environment:

https://surveypmr.prodegeapis.com/prodegemr

Important Note:

When directing users to an endpoint, as well as when making calls to an endpoint, please be sure to utilize the secure HTTPS protocol. Using HTTP may lead to compatibility issues, especially on mobile devices, and is not recommended for a seamless experience.

Pre-launch Checklist

1. Kick-off call with Prodege API Support Team
2. Integrate API methods. At minimum, the Project Calls and Quota Calls must be integrated
3. Integrate Transaction Completion method
4. Integrate Transaction Reconciliation methods
5. Perform complete integration test against the Staging environment (see Staging Integration Test below)
6. Receive production credentials
7. Run single-project full cycle test
8. Production evaluation call with Prodege API Support Team
9. Launch integration

Staging Integration Test

Before receiving production credentials, the integration must first be verified in staging. To do so, please create and share with Prodege API Support the prodege_project_id of at least one project in staging that meets the criteria below.

1. Project is set to a LIVE status
2. Contains at least one quota
3. Successfully redirects to a DQ status
4. Successfully redirects to a Complete status
5. Contains buyer_name
6. Aggregate Conversion is passed (via Update Aggregate Stats by Project)
7. Aggregate Completes is passed (via Update Aggregate Stats by Project)
8. Once we are able to verify the criteria above, we will also ask that you reconcile at least one transaction (via Transaction Reconciliation) and update the status of the Project to COMPLETE.

3. Authentication

Each request to the Prodege MR API must be authenticated using an API Key and signed with a Secret Key. Details on request signing can be found in the Request Signing section.

4. Request Expiration

Each request to the Prodege MR API must be timestamped. In some cases, the request timestamp will be used to identify old and expired API requests. The "request_date" parameter will hold the request timestamp and it will also be used to generate the request signature.

The value for the "request_date" parameter is to be calculated in this manner:

request_date = client_time + request_time_offset

where client_time is your time in milliseconds, and request_time_offset is the amount of time difference (in milliseconds) between your time and the ProdegeMR Server's time. request_time_offset can be determined by issuing the Lookup Request Time Offset API Call.

5. Request Signing

Each request to the Prodege MR API must be signed. The signature is based on the following formula, where StringToSign consists of all request parameters sorted alphabetically by key and concatenated using a colon (:).

Base64( SHA256( UTF-8-Encoding-Of(SecretKey + ":" + StringToSign) ) )

For example:

For a request to https://www.swagbucks.com/prodegemr/project-create with parameters: apik=yBnXUjjiXSXZ, country_id=1, loi=10, project_id=2025, project_name=Test Survey, project_type_id=1, project_url=https://google.com/%transid%/, and request_date=1442254164458, the StringToSign would be:

apik=yBnXUjjiXSXZ:country_id=1:loi=10:project_id=2025:project_name=Test Survey:project_type_id=1:project_url=https://google.com/%transid%/:request_date=1442254164458

The signature is generated as:

Base64( SHA256( UTF-8-Encoding-Of(SecretKey + ":" + StringToSign) ) )

Note: Since the SHA256 output is Base64-encoded and may contain URL-unsafe characters, the following replacements must be applied before sending:

In Java:

static String getProdegeMRSignature(String stringToSign, String secretKey)
{
    byte[] utf8Bytes = (secretKey + ":" + stringToSign).getBytes("UTF-8");
    MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
    byte[] hash = digest.digest(utf8Bytes);
    byte[] base64Hash = Base64.encodeBase64(hash);
    String signature = new String(base64Hash).replace("+", "-")
                                             .replace("/", "_")
                                             .replace("=", "");
    return signature;
}

In C#:

static string GetProdegeMRSignature(string stringToSign, string secretKey)
{
    var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(secretKey + ":" + stringToSign);
    var algo = new SHA256Managed();
    var hashBytes = algo.ComputeHash(bytes);
    var base64String = System.Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes);
    var result = base64String.Replace("+", "-")
                             .Replace("/", "_")
                             .Replace("=", "");
    return result;
}

In PHP:

function getProdegeMRSignature($stringToSign, $secretKey)
{
    $utf8_encoded   = utf8_encode($secretKey . ":" . $stringToSign);
    $sha256_hash    = hash('sha256', $utf8_encoded, true);
    $base64_encoded = base64_encode($sha256_hash);
    $signature      = str_replace("+", "-",
                          str_replace("/", "_",
                          str_replace("=", "", $base64_encoded)));
    return $signature;
}

In Python:

from hashlib import sha256
from base64 import b64encode

def get_prodegemr_signature(string_to_sign: str, secret_key: str) -> str:
    utf8_encoded = f"{secret_key}:{string_to_sign}".encode("UTF-8")
    hashed = sha256(utf8_encoded).digest()
    base64_encoded = b64encode(hashed).decode("UTF-8")
    return base64_encoded.replace("+", "-").replace("/", "_").replace("=", "")

6. IP Whitelisting

In select situations, specifically when API request comes from a predefined set of IPs and permission has been obtained from the ProdegeMR security team, URL signing can be avoided. If your server's IP address has been whitelisted simply omit the signature parameter from your API requests.

7. API Reference

Each call to the Prodege API (except the Transaction Completion call) will return a status, in the form of JSON, to let the api users know whether the request was processed successfully or not. If the request was not processed successfully, the return status JSON will include a message that describes the point of failure for the request.

return_status Model

8. Lookup Calls

9. Lookup Request Time Offset

10. Lookup All Supported Countries

all_countries Element Model

11. Lookup Questions by Country ID

questions Element Model

options Element Model

12. Lookup Supported Languages

13. Run Feasibility

targeting_criteria Element Model

14. Project Calls

15. Lookup Project Types

16. Create Project

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