your-first-report

Note that this is sandbox. If you have not registered profiles in sandbox you 
will need to do so prior to making these calls. You will also need at least 
one campaign, ad group, and keyword before you see anything in the report. 
While in sandbox, we will return “dummy” data so that you can see how an actual 
report would look.
 
To make it look nicer, I always export my access token prior to making calls. 
You could do the same for API-Scope (profile Id) if you wish. Make sure to use 
quotes around the access token if it isn’t URL encoded. It has a | (pipe) 
symbol and your shell won’t like it.
 
$ export AUTH="MY_ACCESS_TOKEN"
 
 
1) Request the report:
 
$ curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: bearer $AUTH" \
  -H "Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: ABC1234567890" \
  -d '{"reportDate": "20161010", "campaignType": "sponsoredProducts", "metrics": "impressions,clicks,cost", "segment": "query"}' \
  https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/keywords/report
 
Response:
{
  "reportId":"amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731",
  "recordType":"keyword",
  "status":"IN_PROGRESS",
  "statusDetails":"Report is being generated."
}
 
 
2) Get the report (actually getting the location for downloading):
 
$ curl \
  -H "Authorization: bearer $AUTH" \
  -H "Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: ABC1234567890" \
  https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/reports/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731
 
Response:
{
  "reportId":"amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731",
  "status":"SUCCESS",
  "statusDetails":"Report has been generated successfully. Pending publish to S3.",
  "location":"https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/reports/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731/download",
  "fileSize":236
}
 
 
3) Get the download location to S3. This is returned in the header. The file 
is also gzipped. Notice the use of the -v flag so CURL will show headers.
 
$ curl -v \
  -H "Authorization: bearer $AUTH" \
  -H "Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: ABC1234567890" \
  https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/reports/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731/download
 
Response:
< HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
< Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:17:49 GMT
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Location: https://sandboxreports.s3.amazonaws.com/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIKLHNT32USZOWVRA&Expires=1476479900&Signature=I%2F2Gd%2B8TbcPbXbBUM6ix%2BSVP3qA%3D
< x-amz-request-id: 067KMA80XJHXHQ1P37SA
< Content-Length: 0
< Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
 
 
4) “Location” is the S3 location where the report can be downloaded. You 
don’t have to send authorization headers to get this. You can get it just 
by visiting the URL. It will expire very quickly so be sure you get it ASAP. 
You will probably need to put quotes around it as the URL contains characters 
such as & that the shell will interpret as you trying to background the process, 
which we don’t want.
 
$ curl -o /tmp/report.json.gz "https://sandboxreports.s3.amazonaws.com/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIKLHNT32USZOWVRA&Expires=1476479900&Signature=I%2F2Gd%2B8TbcPbXbBUM6ix%2BSVP3qA%3D"
 
 
5) Profit:
 
$ less /tmp/report.json.gz

Hey @dbrent-amazon. Thanks you for this gist. It's helped me quite a bit already. You seem to be pretty familiar with the Amazon Advertising API. I was hoping that you could help me, as I've searched high and low for clarification on my current issue but haven't had any luck.

My goal is to get current campaigns through the Amazon Advertising API so that I can generate reports. I've implemented LWA, and I'm having trouble getting profile data. I need to get profile data so I can pass the Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope in the header of subsequent requests.

When I make a GET request to https://advertising-api.amazon.com/v1/profiles I receive a response, which leads me to believe that my Authorization header is passed properly. However the response is an empty array. I would expect some type of profile to be in the array, as there are currently campaigns running under this account.

Do I have to create a profile for this account in order to view current campaigns? Is it possible to get the data of current campaigns with the Advertising API? Any help would be much appreciated

I'm also dealing with the same trouble as @garybunofsky, Did you find the solution?

@garybunofsky and @Keita-N, empty profile list is a completely separate issue from reporting. You should open a Jira Service Desk ticket for that issue.

Hi @dbrent-amazon,

Have you experienced having different response between linux and windows?

I have a script that works perfectly ok but when I run it in a google cloud vm, it does not return the file location.

Linux response: https://amazon-advertising-api-reports-prod-usamazon.s3.amazonaws.com/?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200123T072158Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=30&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3P6LC7ARIGPASLQG%2F20200123%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=2c12703bf4b3294d43f048db838e09deaed2ebc4d671e5de2e4da46bfeb6a281

Windows response: https://amazon-advertising-api-reports-prod-usamazon.s3.amazonaws.com/atvpdkikx0der-a3mja7xklkfetr-report-productad-23e5f0d7-9673-4252-b055-62c63b0651d3.json.gz?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200123T072134Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=30&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA3P6LC7ARIGPASLQG%2F20200123%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=64c931961ecc61fde4259db6c727318ba94b342250ada68d7db5d7056d8bc48d

Hi!

After

curl -v
-H "Authorization: bearer $AUTH"
-H "Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: ABC1234567890"
https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/reports/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731/download

I don't get a 307 redirect..I get a 401 HTTP 401 Unauthorized even though the actual token worked for previous requests i.e. to get
"reportId","status","statusDetails", "location","fileSize": 22

If I do the same request form postman, I get a 200 with junk data in body and not a 307 redirect

Does Amazon Advertising provide web-hooks for report downloading? Actually, it takes time for some reports to be created so I have to request multiple times to get the download URL. Is there any way around for it? Kindly share your thoughts. Thanks

Hi there,

There's no any other way to download reports from advertising API. I understand your concern. The maximum report generation time is 15 mins and you should not make API requests synchronously which means you should use queue for report or snapshot functions.

Hi, I'm having a problem at this point:

$ curl -v
-H "Authorization: bearer $AUTH"
-H "Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: ABC1234567890"
https://advertising-api-test.amazon.com/v1/reports/amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.m1.580149D6.c7aa92c1-ca5b-435d-bb8b-51cb26ad5731/download

When I make my request I get a response body that looks like this: "only one auth mechanism allowed; only the X-Amz-Algorithm query parameter…”
Does anyone know what is going on? Looks like the request is getting 2 authorization, but I'm only using the bearer Auth and the amazon-advertisign-API-scope

Hi Everyone,
I would like to download report like this
curl -o /tmp/report.json.gz "https://-------------------b26ad5731/download"

How to setup curl -o in php. I am newbie
Please help me
thanks

@lucarigo did you manage to resolve your issue with "only one auth mechanism allowed; only the X-Amz-Algorithm query parameter…” as I seem to be getting the same issue when trying to download the report.

Hi Everyone,

Is there any way to get the total spending and total sales of the campaign without generating a report? Reports usually take a lot of time to generate and process.

Thanks