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Opinion Stage

Opinion Stage is an interactive content platform for building quizzes, polls, surveys, and forms used for audience engagement and lead generation. Its REST API exposes the items (widgets) in your account along with the questions they contain and the responses respondents submit, letting you pull engagement and lead data into Nexla for analysis and downstream integration.

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Power end-to-end data operations for your Opinion Stage API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Opinion Stage connector is purpose-built for Opinion Stage, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Opinion Stage or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Opinion Stage workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

  • Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
  • Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
  • API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
  • Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites​

The Opinion Stage API uses HTTP Basic authentication. Each request is authenticated with a username and password issued for your Opinion Stage account, sent using the standard Basic authorization scheme against https://api.opinionstage.com.

Before creating an Opinion Stage credential in Nexla:

  1. Sign in to your Opinion Stage account.

  2. Obtain the username and password (API credentials) associated with your account's API access. If you do not have API access enabled or cannot locate these credentials, contact Opinion Stage support or your account administrator.

  3. Keep these credentials available to enter when you create the Nexla credential below.

For details on the available endpoints and request formats, see the Opinion Stage API documentation.

Authenticate​

Credentials required​

FieldRequiredSecretDescription
UsernameYesNoUsername used to authenticate requests to the Opinion Stage API.
PasswordYesYesPassword used to authenticate requests to the Opinion Stage API.

Create a credential in Nexla​

  1. After selecting the data source type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

  2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

  3. Enter your Opinion Stage username in the Username field.

  4. Enter your Opinion Stage password in the Password field. This value is stored securely and is used, together with the username, to authenticate requests to the Opinion Stage API using HTTP Basic authentication.

    Treat your Opinion Stage password as sensitive information. If it is compromised, reset it in your Opinion Stage account and update the credential in Nexla.

    For detailed information about API authentication and available endpoints, see the Opinion Stage API documentation.

  5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source creation.

Use as a data source​

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Opinion Stage connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to Opinion Stage, and click Next; or, create a new Opinion Stage credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates​

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Opinion Stage endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

List Items

Retrieve items. This endpoint template returns the items (widgets) in your Opinion Stage account, such as quizzes, polls, surveys, and forms.

  • This endpoint retrieves items accessible to your credentials and is paginated. Nexla automatically pages through the results until no further records are returned.

Use the item IDs returned by this endpoint to configure the List Responses and List Questions endpoints, which require an Item ID.

For detailed information about the items response structure, see the Opinion Stage API documentation.

List Responses

Retrieve responses. This endpoint template returns the responses submitted to a specific item (widget) in your Opinion Stage account.

  • This endpoint requires an Item ID — the ID of the item (widget) whose responses to retrieve. Enter this value when configuring the endpoint.
  • The endpoint is paginated, and Nexla automatically pages through the results until no further records are returned.

Obtain the Item ID from the List Items endpoint. For detailed information about the responses response structure, see the Opinion Stage API documentation.

List Questions

Retrieve questions. This endpoint template returns the questions contained in a specific item (widget) in your Opinion Stage account.

  • This endpoint requires an Item ID — the ID of the item (widget) whose questions to retrieve. Enter this value when configuring the endpoint.
  • The endpoint is paginated, and Nexla automatically pages through the results until no further records are returned.

Obtain the Item ID from the List Items endpoint. For detailed information about the questions response structure, see the Opinion Stage API documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration​

Opinion Stage data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Opinion Stage API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Opinion Stage data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.