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Additional Type Specifications

DateObject​

For your convenience, all dates are represented as an object with two date formats:

{
    "iso": "2022-04-29T21:37:49.000Z", // ISO 8601 date-time string
    "ts": 1651268269, // Unix timestamp, in seconds
}

Extra​

Answers to extra form questions and checkboxes specified on the activation.
Each extra object has the following keys:

  • type (string): The type of the extra option. Possible values: "text", "checkbox", "dropdown".
  • name (string): The label of the question displayed in the activation.
  • internal_name (string|null): The name used internally to identify the question.
    • For example, a checkbox titled "By clicking this, I confirm I am 18+" might have an internal name like "18+ Checkbox".
  • value (string|null): The value entered by the entrant. For checkboxes, the value is 1 or 0, for checked and unchecked.

Prize​

  • title (string): The title of the prize.
  • subtitle (string): The subtitle of the prize.

Media​

  • type (string): The type of media uploaded, either "photo" or "video".
  • url (string): A temporary link to the original uploaded media. Expires in 4 hours after the API response is returned.
  • caption (string|null): For contests only, the caption added by the entrant.

BracketVote​

  • round (number) The round of the bracket active at the time the vote was cast.
  • name (string) The name of the contestant that the entrant voted for.
  • seed (number) The original seed of the contestant that the entrant voted for. Use this to uniquely identify contestants.

Address​

For giveaways that have geofencing enabled on prizes, the postalCode key will be available for all entrants.
In all other cases, mailing addresses are only collected for entrants who won a prize that is to be mailed.

Currently, complete mailing addresses are only supported for the USA.

  • streetAddress (string|null): The primary line of the entrant's street address.
  • streetAddressSecondary (string|null): The second line of the entrant's street address.
  • city (string|null): The city portion of the address.
  • state (string|null): The two-letter USPS abbreviation of the entrant's US state.
  • postalCode (string|null) The postal code portion of the address.

Choice​

  • title (string): The title of the selected choice.

ScavengerSeat​

ScavengerSeat is an arbitrary JSON object, and its schema is determined by the customer.