Example code to collect all Questionnaires using the QCAT API

qcat_api_get_questionnaires.py

import requests


API_URL = 'https://qcat.wocat.net/en/api/v2/questionnaires/'
API_TOKEN = ''  # Your API token needed here


# Request headers, including authorization and content type of response
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Token {}'.format(API_TOKEN),
    'Accept': 'application/json'  # or application/xml or text/csv
}

def get_questionnaires(url):
    """
    Query the url and return a list of questionnaire dicts. If there is a next
    url available, query further questionnaires.

    Args:
        url: The (initial) URL to query.

    Return:
        list. A list of questionnaires (as dict).
    """
    print("Querying {}".format(url))

    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

    # Raise exception if request was not successful
    r.raise_for_status()

    r_json = r.json()
    results = r_json.get('results', [])

    # If there are more questionnaires, query the next page
    next_url = r_json.get('next')
    if next_url:
        results.extend(get_questionnaires(next_url))

    return results


# Get all questionnaires from the API
questionnaires = get_questionnaires(API_URL)

# Do something meaningful with the questionnaires
print("{} questionnaires collected".format(len(questionnaires)))