Import SurveyMonkey Data to Google Sheets

In this guide, we’ll walk through how to automatically pull survey data from the SurveyMonkey API directly into Google Sheets, using the API Connector add-on for Sheets.

Note: Survey Monkey limits direct API access to paid SurveyMonkey plans of TEAM PREMIER and higher. If your plan doesn’t include direct API access, you can use their official Google Sheets plugin instead. Their official plugin is more limited than this method, but can be used with any plan.

Contents

• Before You Begin
• Part 1: Get Your Survey Monkey Access Token
• Part 2: Create your API Request URL
• Part 3: Pull Survey Monkey API Data into Sheets
• Part 4: Get More Data
• Part 5: Handle Pagination
• Part 6: Official API Documentation

Before You Begin

Click here to install the API Connector add-on from the Google Marketplace.

Part 1: Get Your Survey Monkey Access Token

1. Log in to Survey Monkey and click the Developers link in the footer (or just navigate directly to https://developer.surveymonkey.com/).
   
2. Click My Apps in the header. (https://developer.surveymonkey.com/apps/)
   
3. Click Add a New App
   
4. You can call your app anything, but we’ll call it Google Sheets. Since we only need to access our own Survey Monkey account, choose Private App and click the Create App button.
   
5. Click on the Settings tab. Scroll down for your Access Token! Keep it handy as we’ll need this in a moment.
   
6. Click the Deploy button up top to deploy your new app.

Part 2: Create Your Survey Monkey Request URL

We’ll first get a list of survey IDs. This will be useful for constructing your other API requests.

• Base URL:https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3
• Endpoint: /surveys

Putting it together, we get the full API Request URL:

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys

Part 3: Pull Survey Monkey API Data into Sheets

Now let’s copy that URL into API Connector.

1. Open up Google Sheets and click Extensions > API Connector > Open.
2. In the Create screen, enter the Request URL we just created
   
3. We don’t need OAuth so leave that set to None.
4. Under headers, enter a set of key-value pairs like this:
   

   Authorization	bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
   Content-Type	application/json

   Replace YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN with the token you got in the first part of this article.
   

5. Create a new tab and click Set current to use that tab as your data destination.
6. Name your request and click Run. A moment later you’ll see a list of your survey IDs populate your Google Sheet

Part 4: Get More API Data

You can check the documentation for the full list of available API requests,  but if you just want to jump in, you can play around with the URLs you enter in the API URL path field. Try the following (one at a time):

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/surveys/YOUR_SURVEY_ID/responses/bulk

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/users/me

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/question_bank/questions

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/contacts

Pay special attention to the value(s) reported in the data.id field in the initial /surveys API request. You can use these survey IDs to create new requests that return detailed survey response data.

Part 5: Handle Pagination

By default, Survey Monkey limits responses to 100 records. To get more, use the ‘page’ parameter at the end of your URL, e.g. page=1, page=2, etc.

With API Connector, you can either set these up as separate requests or run through them automatically with pagination handling (paid feature), like this:

• Pagination type: page parameter
• Page parameter: page
• Run until: choose when to stop fetching data
  

Part 6: API Documentation

Official API documentation: https://developer.surveymonkey.com/api/v3/