amazon-ad-api-tools v0.0.8

amazon-ad-api (client for the Amazon Advertising API)

The client handles calls to the Amazon Advertising API. It wraps up all the necessary stuff such as auto-requesting access tokens and/or profiles, handling of BigInt issues with IDs and provides convenience methods, i.e. for requesting and downloading reports.

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Getting Started
  • Setting credentials from environment variables
  • Setting credentials from file
  • Setting credentials from constructor config object
• Usage
  • Config params
  • Request access token
• Call the API
• Examples
• Request, download and unzip reports
• Sandbox mode
• Known Issues
• Seller Support

Prerequisites

Make sure that you followed the Amazon Ads API Onboarding Process, have successfully retrieved an authorization code and used it to generate a refresh token.

Installation

npm install amazon-ad-api

Getting Started

Before you can use the client you need to add your app client and aws user credentials.

Setting credentials from environment variables

• AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_AD_CLIENT_ID> (see Amazon Ads API Docs "Create your Login with Amazon Application")
• AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_AD_CLIENT_SECRET> (see Amazon Ads API Docs "Create your Login with Amazon Application")

Setting credentials from file

Instead of setting the credentials via environment variables you may load them from a credentials file. The default path to the file is ~/.amzadapi/credentials (path can be changed when creating a client) and you add the credentials one per line:

AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_AD_CLIENT_ID>
AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_AD_CLIENT_SECRET>

Setting credentials from constructor config object

Although the most convenient and recommended way of setting the credentials is via environment variables or config file it is also possible to pass the credentials inside the config object when creating an instance of the client (i.e. if you have no means of using env vars or a config file). The structure of the constructor config object will be explained below.

Usage

Require library:

const AdvertisingAPI = require('amazon-ad-api');

Create client and call API:

(async() => {
  try {
    let advertising = new AdvertisingAPI({
      region:'eu', // The region to use for the AD-API operations ("eu", "na" or "fe"),
      country:'de', // The country code of the marketplace to use for the AD-API operations
      refresh_token:'<REFRESH_TOKEN>' // The refresh token of your app user
    });
    let res = await advertising.callAPI({
      operation:'/v2/profiles',
      method:'GET'
    });
    console.log(res);
  } catch(e){
    console.log(e);
  }
})();

Config params

The class constructor takes a config object with the following structure as input:

{
  region:'<REGION>',
  refresh_token:'<REFRESH_TOKEN>',
  access_token:'<ACCESS_TOKEN>',
  credentials:{
    AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_ID:'<AD_CLIENT_ID>',
    AMAZON_AD_CLIENT_SECRET:'<AD_CLIENT_SECRET>'
  },
  options:{
    credentials_path:'~/.amzadapi/credentials',
    auto_request_token:true,
    auto_request_throttled:true,
    max_retries:20,
    use_sandbox:false
  }
}

Valid properties of the config object:

Valid properties of the config options:

Request access token

If you only provide the region, country and refresh_token parameters the client will automatically request access_token for you (with a TTL of 1 hour) and reuse the token for future api calls for the class instance.

Instead of having the client handle the access_token requests automatically, you may also refresh the token manually:

let advertising = new AdvertisingAPI({
  region:'eu',
  country:'de',
  refresh_token:'<REFRESH_TOKEN>',
  options:{
    auto_request_token:false
  }
});
await advertising.refreshAccessToken();

If you want to use the same access_token for multiple instances you can retrieve the token via getter and use it as input for a new instance:

let access_token = advertising.access_token;

let advertisingNewInstance = new AdvertisingAPI({
  region:'eu',
  country:'de',
  refresh_token:'<REFRESH_TOKEN>',
  access_token:access_token
});

Call the API

Calls to the AD-API will be triggered by using the .callAPI() function, which takes an object with the following structure as input:

{
  operation:'<OPERATION_TO_CALL>',
  method:'<METHOD_TO_USE>',
  query:{
    ...
  },
  body:{
    ...
  }
}

Valid properties of the object:

Examples

Call the API by passing in the operation (api path) and the HTTP method. See the following examples:

let res = await advertising.callAPI({
  operation:'/v2/profiles',
  method:'GET'
});

let res = await advertising.callAPI({
  operation:'/invoices',
  method:'GET',
  query:{
    count:10,
    invoiceStatuses:['ISSUED','PAID_IN_FULL']
  }
});

let res = await advertising.callAPI({
  operation:'/v2/sp/keywords',
  method:'POST',
  body:[{
    campaignId:'<CAMPAIGN_ID>',
    adGroupId:'<AD_GROUP_ID>',
    keywordText:'My exact keyword',
    state:'enabled',
    matchType:'exact',
    bid:1.10
  },{
    campaignId:'<CAMPAIGN_ID>',
    adGroupId:'<AD_GROUP_ID>',
    keywordText:'My even better phrase keyword',
    state:'enabled',
    matchType:'phrase',
    bid:0.80
  }]
});

let res = await advertising.callAPI({
	operation:'/sb/recommendations/bids',
	method:'POST',
	body:{
    campaignId:'<CAMPAIGN_ID>',
    keywords:[{
      keywordText:'headphones',
      matchType:'exact'
    },{
      keywordText:'bluetooth earphones',
      matchType:'exact'
    }],
    adFormat:'productCollection'
	}
});

let res = await advertising.callAPI({
  operation:'/sd/targets',
  method:'PUT',
  body:[{
    targetId:'<TARGET_ID>',
    bid:1.20
  },{
    targetId:'<TARGET_ID>',
    state:'paused'
  }]
});

Request, download and unzip reports

The .getReport() function will request a report, wait for the report to be finished and then download, unzip and return the report.

See the following example:

let report = await advertising.getReport({
  campaignType:'sponsoredProducts',
  recordType:'productAds',
  body:{
    reportDate:'20211201'
  }
});

Valid properties of the object:

NOTE: If you don't provide a list of metrics inside the body, the client will automatically default to include ALL valid metrics for the specific report.

Seller Support

If you are selling on the european market we might be able to support you with everything else that can't be done with the API. Feel free to visit us at https://amz.tools.