Use this endpoint to receive the list of merchants available in Takeads catalog.
A merchant is a company that sells its products or services through one or more advertisers. For example, as a merchant, Nike distributes products through the following advertisers: nike.com, nike.eu, nike.de, etc.
When querying a list of merchants, details about each merchant from the list are also provided in the response.
If you receive an empty list of merchants, but the next value in the response is not null— request the following page of the merchants list, using the next query parameter with the
next
value from the received response.
If no query parameters are specified, the list with up to 100 first merchants is returned.
You can test this API endpoint and inspect the possible responses using Swagger UI
Request
URL: https://api.takeads.com/v1/product/monetize-api/v2...
Method: GET
Request headers
Header | Value | Description |
Authorization | Bearer <PublicKey> |
String of alphanumeric characters with Bearer as prefix, used to authenticate and authorize your API requests. To learn how to get your Public key, refer to the Authorization article. |
Query Parameters
You can use query parameters to get information on specific merchants, or paginate the response.
This endpoint has no required parameters. If no query parameters are specified, the list of the first 500 merchants is returned.
You can get a list of merchants, information about which was last updated during the specified period. To specify the period, use
updatedAtFrom
parameter. It allows you to limit the list of merchants only to those who were updated after the specified date.
Use
offset
and
limit
parameters to paginate the response.
The following table describes query parameters that you can use in the request.
Property | Type | Description |
next |
integer |
Pointer (integer) to the next page of the merchant list. If specified, a list of merchants from the indicated page is retrieved. |
limit |
integer |
Maximum number of merchants that may be returned for a single request. The maximum value is 500. The default value is 100. |
updatedAtFrom |
string |
Lower border of the updatedAt field to filter (included). It specifies the starting point of the period during which information about merchants was last updated. Date and time in the ISO 8601 format. Example: Example: 2021-08-03T19:53:15.816Z |
isActive |
boolean |
Status of the merchant. A merchant is active if it has at least one active program. |
Request examples
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curl --request GET \ --url 'https://api.takeads.com/v1/product/monetize-api/v2/merchant?next=1&updatedAtFrom=2024-01-01&limit=100&isActive=true' \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <Public Key>'\ --header 'Content-Type: application/json'
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fetch("https://api.takeads.com/v1/product/monetize-api/v2/merchant?next=1&updatedAtFrom=2024-01-01&limit=100&isActive=true", { "method": "GET", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <Public Key>", "Content-Type": "application/json" } }) .then(response => { console.log(response); }) .catch(err => { console.error(err); });
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<?php $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($curl, [ CURLOPT_PORT => "6110", CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.takeads.com/v1/product/monetize-api/v2/merchant?next=1&updatedAtFrom=2024-01-01&limit=100&isActive=true", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET", CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [ "Authorization: Bearer <Public Key>", "Content-Type: application/json" ], ]); $response = curl_exec($curl); $err = curl_error($curl); curl_close($curl); if ($err) { echo "cURL Error #:" . $err; } else { echo $response; }
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import http.client conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("https://api.takeads.com") payload = "" headers = { 'Authorization': "Bearer <Public Key>", 'Content-Type': "application/json" } conn.request("GET", "/v1/product/monetize-api/v2/merchant?next=1&updatedAtFrom=2024-01-01&limit=100&isActive=true", payload, headers) res = conn.getresponse() data = res.read() print(data.decode("utf-8"))
Response
If the request was successfully processed by the server, the HTTP response with 200 status code and the list of available merchants is returned.
The response payload is a JSON object that contains a
meta
object with metadata and a
data
array with the merchants' details. Each item of the array is an object with the details about the merchants retrieved according to request.
The following table describes the response metadata.
Property | Type | Description |
next
|
integer | Pointer (integer) to the next page of the merchant list. If specified, a list of merchants from the indicated page is retrieved. |
The following table describes the response properties from the
data
array.
Property | Type | Description |
merchantId | number / null | Merchant unique identifier. |
name | string | Merchant name |
imageUri | string / null | URI of the merchant’s logo. |
defaultDomain | string | Default merchant domain. |
description | string | Merchant description. |
categoryId | integer | List of merchant category IDs. See a full list of categories and their IDs |
domains | array | List of merchant domains. |
currencyCode | string | Currency code in ISO 4217:2008 alpha-3 format. |
isActive | boolean |
Status of the merchant. A merchant is active if it has at least one active program. |
countryCodes | array | List of country codes in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format where the program operates. |
averageBasketValue | number | Average purchases number for the merchant. |
averageCommission | number | Average percent of the merchant's commission. |
averageConfirmationTime | integer | Average commission confirmation time in days. |
averageCancellationRate | number | Average rate of cancelled commission. |
minimumCommission | number | Minimum commission value. |
maximumCommission | number | Maximum commission value. |
commissionRates | array | List of rewards the publisher can receive from the merchant for each approved action. These rates reflect the potential earnings for different types of actions performed by the publisher's audience. The exact reward received depends on the actions validated and approved by the merchant. |
fixedCommission | number | Set amount paid per transaction or lead. |
percentageCommission | number | Percentage of the total sale amount paid per transaction. |
trackingLink | string | Merchant tracking link. |
createdAt | string |
Timestamp ($ISO 8601) that specifies the date when of the last update of the merchant. Example: 2021-08-03T19:53:15.816Z |
updatedAt | string |
Timestamp ($ISO 8601) when information about the merchant was last updated in the Takeads catalog. Example: 2021-08-03T19:53:15.816Z |
Example value
{
"meta": {
"next": 1234
},
"data": [
{
"merchantId": 12345,
"name": "ACME",
"imageUri": "https://sitesample.com/image.svg",
"defaultDomain": "sitesample.com",
"description": "Some description",
"categoryId": 12,
"domains": [
"sitesample.com"
],
"currencyCode": "EUR",
"isActive": true,
"countryCodes": [
"DE"
],
"averageBasketValue": 120.45,
"averageCommission": 4.45,
"averageConfirmationTime": 39,
"averageCancellationRate": 0.45,
"minimumCommission": 0,
"maximumCommission": 0,
"commissionRates": [
{
"fixedCommission": 1.4,
"percentageCommission": 5.4
}
],
"trackingLink": "https://tatrck.com/h/q1w2e3r4t5y6",
"createdAt": "2023-01-30T08:07:12.166Z",
"updatedAt": "2023-01-30T08:07:12.166Z"
}
]
}
To view possible error responses, refer to the Error responses article