GetDomainCategories Service Operation - Ad Insight

Gets the list of categories available for the website domain and language.

Request Elements

The GetDomainCategoriesRequest object defines the body and header elements of the service operation request. The elements must be in the same order as shown in the Request SOAP.

Note

Unless otherwise noted below, all request elements are required.

Request Body Elements

Element Description Data Type
CategoryName The category name filter.

If you already know one or more of the categories, then you can optionally filter the list of results by sub-category. Up to three category levels can be specified, and must be separated by a forward slash ("/"). For example you can format the filter as CategoryL1 / CategoryL2 / CategoryL3.

If you do not include any category name, then all categories for the domain and language will be returned.
string
DomainName The website name corresponding to the pages you want your ads to target.

The maximum length of the domain is 2,048 characters. You do not need to include the http, https, or www prefix.
string
Language The language of the website domain.

Currently only English is supported, so you must set this element to EN.
string

Request Header Elements

Element Description Data Type
AuthenticationToken The OAuth access token that represents the credentials of a user who has permissions to Microsoft Advertising accounts.

For more information see Authentication with OAuth.
string
CustomerAccountId The identifier of the ad account that owns or is associated with the entities in the request. This header element must have the same value as the AccountId body element when both are required. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it.

For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.
string
CustomerId The identifier of the manager account (customer) the user is accessing or operating from. A user can have access to multiple manager accounts. This element is required for most service operations, and as a best practice you should always set it.

For more information see Get Your Account and Customer IDs.
string
DeveloperToken The developer token used to access the Bing Ads API.

For more information see Get a Developer Token.
string
Password This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials. string
UserName This element is reserved for internal use and will be removed from a future version of the API. You must use the AuthenticationToken element to set user credentials. string

Response Elements

The GetDomainCategoriesResponse object defines the body and header elements of the service operation response. The elements are returned in the same order as shown in the Response SOAP.

Response Body Elements

Element Description Data Type
Categories The list of domain categories. DomainCategory array

Response Header Elements

Element Description Data Type
TrackingId The identifier of the log entry that contains the details of the API call. string

Request SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP request. For supported types that you can use with this service operation, see the Request Body Elements reference above.

<s:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
    <Action mustUnderstand="1">GetDomainCategories</Action>
    <AuthenticationToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</AuthenticationToken>
    <CustomerAccountId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerAccountId>
    <CustomerId i:nil="false">ValueHere</CustomerId>
    <DeveloperToken i:nil="false">ValueHere</DeveloperToken>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <GetDomainCategoriesRequest xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
      <CategoryName i:nil="false">ValueHere</CategoryName>
      <DomainName i:nil="false">ValueHere</DomainName>
      <Language i:nil="false">ValueHere</Language>
    </GetDomainCategoriesRequest>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Response SOAP

This template was generated by a tool to show the order of the body and header elements for the SOAP response.

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
    <TrackingId d3p1:nil="false" xmlns:d3p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">ValueHere</TrackingId>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <GetDomainCategoriesResponse xmlns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13">
      <Categories d4p1:nil="false" xmlns:d4p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <DomainCategory>
          <Bid>ValueHere</Bid>
          <CategoryName d4p1:nil="false">ValueHere</CategoryName>
          <Coverage>ValueHere</Coverage>
        </DomainCategory>
      </Categories>
    </GetDomainCategoriesResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Code Syntax

The example syntax can be used with Bing Ads SDKs. See Bing Ads API Code Examples for more examples.

public async Task<GetDomainCategoriesResponse> GetDomainCategoriesAsync(
	string categoryName,
	string domainName,
	string language)
{
	var request = new GetDomainCategoriesRequest
	{
		CategoryName = categoryName,
		DomainName = domainName,
		Language = language
	};

	return (await AdInsightService.CallAsync((s, r) => s.GetDomainCategoriesAsync(r), request));
}
static GetDomainCategoriesResponse getDomainCategories(
	java.lang.String categoryName,
	java.lang.String domainName,
	java.lang.String language) throws RemoteException, Exception
{
	GetDomainCategoriesRequest request = new GetDomainCategoriesRequest();

	request.setCategoryName(categoryName);
	request.setDomainName(domainName);
	request.setLanguage(language);

	return AdInsightService.getService().getDomainCategories(request);
}
static function GetDomainCategories(
	$categoryName,
	$domainName,
	$language)
{

	$GLOBALS['Proxy'] = $GLOBALS['AdInsightProxy'];

	$request = new GetDomainCategoriesRequest();

	$request->CategoryName = $categoryName;
	$request->DomainName = $domainName;
	$request->Language = $language;

	return $GLOBALS['AdInsightProxy']->GetService()->GetDomainCategories($request);
}
response=adinsight_service.GetDomainCategories(
	CategoryName=CategoryName,
	DomainName=DomainName,
	Language=Language)

Requirements

Service: AdInsightService.svc v13
Namespace: https://bingads.microsoft.com/AdInsight/v13