Testing | Prolific API

To confirm that your integration works correctly, you have several testing options. We now recommend using our new API testing method, while the existing approaches will be gradually deprecated.

🆕 Recommended API Testing (No Credits Needed)

Create test participants: POST /api/v1/researchers/participants/

Publish in test mode: POST /api/v1/studies/{id}/test-study

Complete the study as a test participant

Approve or reject submissions normally

This new method doesn’t consume credits and will become the standard approach.

Create participant accounts for testing (Legacy method - will be deprecated)

Submit a request to our support team with: - List of emails for the participant accounts (cannot be the same as researcher account) - Your team’s country for testing

2Log in to your participant test accounts.

If you want to be signed in with both accounts, use incognito or a different browser for your participant account.

Publish test studies to testers only (Legacy method - will be deprecated)

Create a study draft with an allow list:

"filters": [
  {
    "filter_id": "custom_allowlist",
    "selected_values": [
      "61f292141b0ec8b3b5ab353",
      "61f2914e3bb4b4d40080aec"
    ]
  }
]

Publish the study draft

Complete the study as a participant

Approve or reject participants

Rejected participants may need support reset. We recommend using the new API testing method instead.