Data access across Explore
Works with any data loaded and available within the Explore platform, so you call licensed datasets without storing or versioning the underlying data yourself.
What is included
- Works with any data loaded and available within the Explore platform
- Always returns the latest available data version
- Five-year historical backlog for trend analysis
- Machine-readable OpenAPI document and CORS pre-flight
Key capabilities
Current data, always
Always returns the latest available data version for the surveys you are entitled to.
Historical trends
Five-year historical backlog available for trend analysis. Your application owns how you compare results across calls — the API does not bundle a built-in trend function.
Weighted audience results
`POST /crosstab` returns weighted projected audience (`WgtAud`), unweighted respondents (`Resps`) and a stability flag (`Stbl`) for each target.
Discoverable at runtime
`GET /docs` returns the live OpenAPI document so your client can confirm the contract before a batch run.
Browser-ready CORS
`OPTIONS /crosstab` reports the allow headers your origin needs, without requiring an API key.
Use cases
Embedded survey intelligence
Bring tabulated insights from licensed datasets into your local or cloud-hosted application under your own branding.
Demographic comparison tiles
Crosstab two targets against a shared population base to drive a side-by-side audience tile in a planner or dashboard.
Single-target audience check
Ask for one target when you only need a single cut — for example a live check that a planned buy clears a stability threshold.
Trend analysis in your product
Pull historical backlog across calls and compare results in your own application — the API returns the data; your product owns the trend UX.
How it is sold
- Per-call usage
- Billing is per call and scales with the volume of data returned (number of results). Usage is unlimited in terms of number of runs across all users. Commercial terms including per-call cost, tiers and minimum commitments are defined separately with Sales.
- Monthly billing
- Clients are billed on a monthly cadence based on usage. Usage is visible in the Developer Portal.
- Unlimited runs
- No cap on how often you call within your agreement. Batch and scheduled workloads are expected, not exceptional.
Rates, tiers and contract terms are not published here. What a call costs for you depends on volume and commitment, so commercial terms are agreed with Sales rather than listed on a public page.
Constraints
Hard technical limits. Requests that breach these are rejected with a machine-readable error rather than silently truncated.
- Result shape per call
- Per API call: 1 column and up to 2 rows (or 2 columns and 1 row). For this crosstab operation that means between one and two `TargetCodes`.
- Maximum per axis
- The maximum result limit is 5,000 rows per axis. This limit may be adapted in future versions.
- Trend analysis
- There is no built-in compare/trend function across datasets in the API — trend analysis is the responsibility of the integrating application.
Fair-use limits
“Unlimited runs” means no call cap inside your agreement. It does not mean no protection for the service or for other tenants.
- Unlimited runs are subject to your agreement; sustained load well beyond your agreed profile may be throttled.
- Requests with more than two `TargetCodes` are rejected rather than silently truncated.
- Credentials are issued per account and must not be shared between organisations or resold.
- Redistributing raw responses in bulk to third parties requires a separate agreement — talk to Sales.
- Permissioning and survey access must be configured before any API queries can be made.
How to start
Six steps from first conversation to billed production traffic. Each links to the full detail in the getting-started guide.
- UsProvisionWe create your tenant and environment.
- YouPortal keyYou create credentials in the Developer Portal.
- UsPermissionWe attach the scopes you are entitled to.
- YouEmbedYou make your first call from your own code.
- YouOptional UIYou surface the data in your product.
- BothBillingUsage is metered and invoiced monthly.
Ready to get started with Explore API?
Talk to Sales about commercial terms, or request access and we will provision your tenant.