Prolific Messages API

Communicate with participants.

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prolific-research-messages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Prolific Bonuses Messages API
  description: 'The Prolific API is a versioned REST interface for the Prolific online research participant recruitment platform. Researchers use it to programmatically create and publish studies, review and approve submissions, manage participant groups, projects and workspaces, apply demographic filters and requirements, pay bonuses, message participants, and subscribe to event webhooks (hooks). The API is served from https://api.prolific.com/api/v1 and follows a standard REST pattern: a collection endpoint (.../resource/) for GET (list) and POST (create), and an element endpoint (.../resource/{id}/) for GET, PATCH/PUT, and DELETE. All requests are authenticated with an API token supplied in the Authorization header as "Token <your token>".'
  version: v1
  contact:
    name: Prolific
    url: https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.prolific.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.prolific.com/api/v1
  description: Prolific API v1
security:
- tokenAuth: []
tags:
- name: Messages
  description: Communicate with participants.
paths:
  /messages/:
    get:
      operationId: getMessages
      tags:
      - Messages
      summary: Retrieve messages
      description: Get messages between you and another user, or your messages with all users.
      parameters:
      - name: user_id
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: created_after
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of messages.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
    post:
      operationId: sendMessage
      tags:
      - Messages
      summary: Send a message
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                recipient_id:
                  type: string
                body:
                  type: string
                study_id:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '201':
          description: The message was sent.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /messages/unread/:
    get:
      operationId: getUnreadMessages
      tags:
      - Messages
      summary: Retrieve unread messages
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of unread messages.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            detail:
              type: string
            error_code:
              type: integer
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication credentials were missing or invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: API token supplied as "Token <your token>".