Create/Modify Survey - API v3 - surveymonkey

Question

I have used V2 of the Survey Monkey API to get details on collectors and surveys. I am now interested in learning how to use the V3 API to Create/Modify surveys. I hope some useful tips from other users, would help me out, as I am relatively new to the API. I will be using Python.
Specifically, my use case is that I want to use a base survey as a template, and modify the answer options per recipient. Here is an example:
Recipient A would get:
Q1. On a scale of 1 (least) to 5 (most), how much do you like eating:
a. Burgers
b. Pizza
c. Hotdogs
Q2. On a scale of 1 (rarely) to 5 (very), in a typical week, how often do you eat:
a. Burgers
b. Pizza
c. Hotdogs
While recipient B would get
Q1. On a scale of 1 (least) to 5 (most), how much do you like eating:
a. Fried chicken
b. French fries
c. Tacos
Q2. On a scale of 1 (rarely) to 5 (very), in a typical week, how often do you eat:
a. Fried chicken
b. French fries
c. Tacos
How do I create the API that reads in the various answer options.
I also plan to use pandas to load the table of answer options per recipient, and want to find out how to pipe the answer options into the API - would it be through a conversion into JSON? Have read the documentation, but it's not always obvious what needs to be done (to a newbie).
Thanks so much!

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware, there isn't branching logic available to show/hide answer options. If you were sending the survey to one recipient at a time, and you really wanted to have one question with modified answer options you could theoretically do something like this:
POST /v3/surveys/<id>/pages/<id>/questions
{
"family": "matrix",
"subtype": "rating",
"answers": {
"rows": [
{
"text": "Burgers",
"visible": true,
"position": 1
},
{
"text": "Pizza",
"visible": true,
"position": 2
},
{
"text": "Hotdogs",
"visible": true,
"position": 3
},
{
"text": "Fried chicken",
"visible": false,
"position": 4
},
{
"text": "French fries",
"visible": false,
"position": 5
},
{
"text": "Tacos",
"visible": false,
"position": 6
}
],
"choices": [
{
"text": "1",
"position": 1
},
{
"text": "2",
"position": 2
},
{
"text": "3",
"position": 3
},
{
"text": "4",
"position": 4
},
{
"text": "5",
"position": 5
}
]
},
"headings": [
{
"heading": "On a scale of 1 (least) to 5 (most), how much do you like eating:"
}
],
"forced_ranking": false
}
And then patch visible on the answer options between true and false for each recipient, that way you can analyse on the same question. But that's not really ideal as this changes the survey for everyone taking it limiting you to one recipient taking the survey at a time.
Given you are planning on moving the data to pandas anyways, why not just separate into four different questions? Then just use advanced branching to hide/show questions based on a custom value on the recipient. That way you can have a rule that's something like:
if contact.custom1 is exactly "fried" then hide question 1 and show question 2
Then you can export all your data or fetch your responses through the API
GET /v3/surveys/<id>/responses/bulk
Which will give you a JSON of all the responses which you can move to pandas. There may be other ways to do what you'd like but given the available functionality; this is a couple examples that may be helpful.