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Authorization Header
You must add authorization headers to this request. Please see the Authorization section for further details.

Endpoint

All merchant API requests start with “https://publishers.viglink.com/api/merchant/”

Rate Limit

Your calls will be limited to 1 query per 3 seconds. If you exceed our rate limit your queries will be throttled and you will get no response.

Individual Merchant Query:

To query a single merchant, add the merchant ID to the path of the url.

https://publishers.viglink.com/api/merchant/{merchantId}

Sample call:

curl -i -X GET    -H "Authorization:secret {SECRET KEY}"  https://publishers.viglink.com/api/merchant/342'

url = "https://publishers.viglink.com/api/merchant/342"

headers = {
  Authorization: "secret <secret key>"
  }

response = HTTParty.get(url, headers: headers)

Response Fields

Field	Description	Example
id	Sovrn Commerce specific unique identifier	25700
name	name of the merchant	nike.com
updateDate	last date the merchant program was updated in system	2015-03-11
createDate	date the merchant was created in the system	2011-09-23
insider	increased commission rate as part of the Insider Program	false
industryTypes	merchant vertical classification	[{"code"=>"SF", "name"=>"Sports & Fitness"}][{"code"=>"SF", "name"=>"Sports & Fitness"}]
affiliateCPA	CPA program	false
affiliateCPC	CPC program	true
approved	can your campaign earn money on this merchant program	true
domains	domains	["thedraw.nike.com", "nikefactorystore.nike.com", "jobs.nike.com", "niketown.nike.com", "news.nike.com", "insider.nike.com", "nikeid.nike.com", "go.nike.com", "content.nike.com", "nikerunning.nike.com", "photoid.nike.com", "nike.com", "m.nike.com", "store.nike.com", "nikelab.nike.com", "secure-nikeplus.nike.com", "producttesting.nike.com", "secure-store.nike.com", "niketeam.nike.com", "images.nike.com", "click.official.nike.com", "help-en-us.nike.com", "nikeplus.nike.com", "secure-images.nike.com"]
countries	a comma separated string of the two letter country codes where this merchant accepts traffic	us,ca,uk
merchantSensitiveTypes	classification of publishers that this merchant doesn’t work with	Non CPC
rates	an array of the commission rate information, can return different levels of commission, cpc rates, cpa rates, etc... For some merchants we will display a calculated commission rate. This is the average commission rate earned by our publishers for this particular merchant.	{"min"=>6.0, "max"=>6.0, "type"=>"%", "description"=>"commission(US)", "typeName"=>"%"}