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GET/ad_campaign/{campaign_id}/ad

This method retrieves Promoted Listings ads that are associated with listings created with either the Trading API or the Inventory API.

The method retrieves ads related to the specified campaign. Specify the Promoted Listings campaign to target with the campaign_id path parameter.

Because of the large number of possible results, you can use query parameters to paginate the result set by specifying a limit, which dictates how many ads to return on each page of the response. You can also specify how many ads to skip in the result set before returning the first result using the offset path parameter.

Call getCampaigns to retrieve the current campaign IDs for the seller.

Input

Resource URI

GET https://api.ebay.com/sell/marketing/v1/ad_campaign/{campaign_id}/ad?

This method is supported in Sandbox environment. To access the endpoint, just replace the api.ebay.com root URI with api.sandbox.ebay.com

URI parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
campaign_idstringThis path parameter specifies the unique eBay-assigned identifier of the ad campaign associated with the ads being retrieved.

Use the getCampaigns method to retrieve campaign IDs.

Occurrence: Required

listing_idsstringA comma-separated list of listing IDs.

Note: The response includes only active ads. The results do not include listing IDs that are excluded by other conditions.

Occurrence: Optional

limitstringSpecifies the maximum number of ads to return on a page in the paginated response.

Default: 10

Maximum: 500

Occurrence: Optional

offsetstringSpecifies the number of ads to skip in the result set before returning the first ad in the paginated response.

Combine offset with the limit query parameter to control the items returned in the response. For example, if you supply an offset of 0 and a limit of 10, the first page of the response contains the first 10 items from the complete list of items retrieved by the call. If offset is 10 and limit is 20, the first page of the response contains items 11-30 from the complete result set.

Default: 0

Occurrence: Optional

ad_group_idsstringA comma-separated list of ad group IDs. The results will be filtered to only include active ads for these ad groups.

Use the getAdGroups method to retrieve the ad group ID for the ad group.

Note: This field only applies to the Cost Per Click (CPC) funding model; it does not apply to the Cost Per Sale (CPS) funding model.

Occurrence: Optional

ad_statusstringA comma-separated list of ad statuses. The results will be filtered to only include the given statuses of the ad. If none are provided, all ads are returned.

See AdStatusEnum for supported values.

Occurrence: Optional

HTTP request headers

All requests made to eBay REST operations require you to provide the Authorization HTTP header for authentication authorization.

All other standard RESTful request headers are optional. For more information on standard RESTful request headers, see the HTTP request headers- opens rest request components page table.

OAuth scope

This request requires an access token created with the authorization code grant flow, using one or more scopes from the following list (please check your Application Keys page for a list of OAuth scopes available to your application):

https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing.readonly

https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing

See OAuth access tokens for more information.

Request payload

This call has no payload.

Request fields

This call has no field definitions.

Output

HTTP response headers

This call has no response headers.

Response payload

Response fields

Output container/fieldTypeDescription
adsarray of Ad

The list of ads that matched the request criteria.

Occurrence: Always

ads.adGroupIdstring

A unique eBay-assigned ID for an ad group in a campaign that uses the Cost Per Click (CPC) funding model. This ID is created after a successful createAdGroup call, and all ad groups must be associated with a CPC campaign.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.adIdstring

A unique eBay-assigned ID that is generated when the ad is created.

Occurrence: Always

ads.adStatusAdStatusEnum

The current status of the CPC ad.

Valid Values:

  • ACTIVE
  • PAUSED
  • ARCHIVED
Note: This type only applies to the Cost Per Click (CPC) funding model; it does not apply to the Cost Per Sale (CPS) funding model.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alertsarray of Alert

An array containing alert messages for the ad.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.alertTypeAlertTypeEnum

The type of alert message. For example, an invalid bid percentage.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.detailsarray of AlertDetails

A description of the alert including dimensions and aspects.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.dimensionAlertDimension

The dimension information of the alert including keys and values.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.dimension.keyDimensionKeyEnum

The key field of the applied dimension. For example, the marketplace Id.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.dimension.valuestring

The value field of the applied dimension. For example, if the key is a MARKETPLACE_ID, the value would be from MarketplaceIdEnum.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.aspectAspect

The aspect information of the alert including keys and values.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.aspect.keyAspectKeyEnum

The type of the aspect. For example, MINIMUM_REQUIRED.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.alerts.details.aspect.valuestring

The value of the aspect. For example, if the aspect is a percentage, a value of '2.0' would equal 2%.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.bidPercentagestring

The user-defined bid percentage (also known as the ad rate) sets the level that eBay increases the visibility in search results for the associated listing. The higher the bidPercentage value, the more eBay promotes the listing.

The value specified here is also used to calculate the Promoted Listings fee. This percentage value is multiplied by the final sales price to determine the fee.

The Promoted Listings fee is determined at the time the transaction completes and the seller is assessed the fee only when an item sells through a Promoted Listings ad campaign.

The bidPercentage is a single precision value that is guided by the following rules:

  • These values are valid:
       4.1,    5.0,    5.5, ...
  • These values are not valid:
       0.01,    10.75,    99.99,
       and so on.
This is default bid percentage for the campaigns using the Cost Per Sale (CPS) funding model, and this value will be overridden by any ads in the campaign that have their own set bid percentages.

If a bid percentage is not provided for an ad, eBay uses the default bid percentage of the associated campaign.

Note:This field will always be returned for campaigns that use the Cost Per Sale (CPS) funding model. It will not be returned for campaigns that use the Cost Per Click (CPC) funding model.

Note: This field has a minimum value of 2.0 and a maximum value of 100.0.

Occurrence: Conditional

ads.inventoryReferenceIdstring

An ID that identifies a single-item listing or multiple-variation listing that is managed with the Inventory API.

The inventory reference ID is a seller-defined value that can be either an SKU for a single-item listing or an inventoryItemGroupKey for a multiple-value listing.

An inventoryItemGroupKey is a value that the seller defines to indicate a listing that's the parent of an inventory item group (a multiple-variation listing, such as a listing for a shirt that's available in multiple sizes and colors).

This field is only returned if the ad is associated with a SKU or an inventory item group value.

Occurrence: Always

ads.inventoryReferenceTypeInventoryReferenceTypeEnum

The enumeration value returned here indicates the type of listing the inventoryReferenceId references. The value returned here will be INVENTORY_ITEM for a single-variation listing, or INVENTORY_ITEM_GROUP for a multiple-variation listing.

This field is only returned if the ad is associated with a SKU or an inventory item group value.

Occurrence: Always

ads.listingIdstring

A unique eBay-assigned ID that is generated when a listing is created.

Occurrence: Always

hrefstring

The URI of the current page of results from the result set.

Occurrence: Always

limitinteger

The number of items returned on a single page from the result set. This value can be set in the request with the limit query parameter.

Default: 10

Occurrence: Always

nextstring

The call URI that can be used to retrieve the next page in the result set. Basically, all of the request parameters will remain the same except the offset value, which will be increased to retrieve the next page of results.

Max length: 2048

Occurrence: Conditional

offsetinteger

The number of results skipped in the result set before listing the first result on the current page. This value can be set in the request with the offset query parameter. If the offset value is not set, it defaults to zero.

Default: 0

Note: The items in a paginated result set use a zero-based list where the first item in the list has an offset of 0.

Occurrence: Conditional

prevstring

The call URI that can be used to retrieve the previous page in the result set. Basically, all of the request parameters will remain the same except the offset value, which will be decreased to retrieve the previous page of results.

Max length: 2048

Occurrence: Conditional

totalinteger

The total number of items retrieved in the result set.

If no items are found, this field is returned with a value of 0.

Occurrence: Always

HTTP status codes

This call can return one of the following HTTP status codes. For an overview of the status codes, see HTTP status codes in Using eBay RESTful APIs.

StatusMeaning
200Success
400Bad Request
404Not Found
409Business error
500Internal Server error

Error codes

For more on errors, plus the codes of other common errors, see Handling errors.

CodeDomainCategoryMeaning
35001API_MARKETINGAPPLICATIONThere was a problem with an eBay internal system or process. Contact eBay Developer Technical Support for assistance.
35002API_MARKETINGAPPLICATIONInternal error. Please wait a few minutes and try the call again.
35013API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe listing ID {listingId} is not valid.
35029API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe 'limit' has to be greater than zero and less than {maxLimitValue}.
35030API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe 'offset' cannot be less than zero.
35035API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe campaign with campaign id {campaign_id} has ended.
35045API_MARKETINGREQUESTNo campaign found for campaign id {campaign_id}.
35068API_MARKETINGBUSINESSYou have exceeded the maximum number of listing IDs. Only {maxSupportedNumber} listings are supported per call.
35077API_MARKETINGBUSINESSTo use promoted listings, you need to improve your seller level to Top Rated or Above Standard and have enough recent sales activity.
35083API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe requested 'adStatus' is not valid.
36106API_MARKETINGREQUESTThe 'ad_group_ids' is not supported for CPS funding model.
36412API_MARKETINGREQUESTCampaigns where the 'campaignTargetingType' is 'SMART' do not support ad groups. Please remove the {adGroupFieldName} and try again.

Warnings

This call has no warnings.

Samples

New to making API calls? Please see Making a Call.

Note: Identifiers, such as order IDs or user IDs, and personal data in these samples might be anonymized or may no longer be active on eBay. If necessary, substitute current, relevant eBay data in your requests.

Sample 1: Retrieve Ads

This sample retrieves the three ads associated with the campaign.

Input

The inputs for this sample is the campaign_id as a URI parameter. Optionally, you can use the listing_ids, limit, and offset fields to filter and control the size of the result set.

GEThttps://api.ebay.com/sell/marketing/v1/ad_campaign/1********4/ad

Output

The output is an array of the ads in the campaign.

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