Searching for constituent by email address - 400 bad request?

Alastair Moore

Hi all,

Quite new to SKY API and am using this with PHP/Drupal with the Blackbaud SKY API module (https://www.drupal.org/project/blackbaud_sky_api) that seems to be most working successfully. I'm able to authenticate and make API requests.

As I say, new to the API and currently running into a strange issue that I'm sure is quite straightforward.

The API call I'm making looks like:

/constituent/v1/constituents/search?search_text=valid.email@example.com&search_field=email_address&strict_search=true

However I always get a 400 bad request.

/constituent/v1/constituents/search?search_text=valid.email@example.com&search_field=email_address

Appears to work correctly but I'm not getting expected results back. Wondered if anyone can point out what I'm missing?

Thank you!

Bob Raymond

all parameters need to be encoded for the string. e.g., in js, use encodeURIComponent to replace the @ in email address before submitting to API

Val Kuppuswamy

Try after removing strict_search=true. I got the following message if I included that filter. “This request includes an invalid combination of filters. The only filters that are available for use with the email_address search_field filter are search_text and include_inactive.”

Alastair Moore

Of course. Schoolboy error on my part! Thank you, I'll do that!