Get app acquisitions

Use this method in the Microsoft Store analytics API to get aggregate acquisition data in JSON format for an application during a given date range and other optional filters. This information is also available in the Acquisitions report in Partner Center.

Prerequisites

To use this method, you need to first do the following:

• If you have not done so already, complete all the prerequisites for the Microsoft Store analytics API.
• Obtain an Azure AD access token to use in the request header for this method. After you obtain an access token, you have 60 minutes to use it before it expires. After the token expires, you can obtain a new one.

Request

Request syntax

Method	Request URI
GET	https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/appacquisitions

Request header

Header	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Required. The Azure AD access token in the form Bearer <token>.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
applicationId	string	The Store ID of the app for which you want to retrieve acquisition data.	Yes
startDate	date	The start date in the date range of acquisition data to retrieve. The default is the current date.	No
endDate	date	The end date in the date range of acquisition data to retrieve. The default is the current date.	No
top	int	The number of rows of data to return in the request. The maximum value and the default value if not specified is 10000. If there are more rows in the query, the response body includes a next link that you can use to request the next page of data.	No
skip	int	The number of rows to skip in the query. Use this parameter to page through large data sets. For example, top=10000 and skip=0 retrieves the first 10000 rows of data, top=10000 and skip=10000 retrieves the next 10000 rows of data, and so on.	No
filter	string	One or more statements that filter the rows in the response. Each statement contains a field name from the response body and value that are associated with the eq or ne operators, and statements can be combined using and or or. String values must be surrounded by single quotes in the filter parameter. For example, filter=market eq 'US' and gender eq 'm'. You can specify the following fields from the response body: acquisitionType ageGroup storeClient gender market osVersion deviceType orderName	No
aggregationLevel	string	Specifies the time range for which to retrieve aggregate data. Can be one of the following strings: day, week, or month. If unspecified, the default is day.	No
orderby	string	A statement that orders the result data values for each acquisition. The syntax is orderby=field [order],field [order],.... The field parameter can be one of the following strings: date acquisitionType ageGroup storeClient gender market osVersion deviceType orderName The order parameter is optional, and can be asc or desc to specify ascending or descending order for each field. The default is asc. Here is an example orderby string: orderby=date,market	No
groupby	string	A statement that applies data aggregation only to the specified fields. You can specify the following fields: date applicationName acquisitionType ageGroup storeClient gender market osVersion deviceType orderName The returned data rows will contain the fields specified in the groupby parameter as well as the following: date applicationId acquisitionQuantity The groupby parameter can be used with the aggregationLevel parameter. For example: &groupby=ageGroup,market&aggregationLevel=week	No

Request example

The following example demonstrates several requests for getting app acquisition data. Replace the applicationId value with the Store ID for your app.

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/appacquisitions?applicationId=9NBLGGGZ5QDR&startDate=1/1/2015&endDate=2/1/2015&top=10&skip=0  HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/appacquisitions?applicationId=9NBLGGGZ5QDR&startDate=8/1/2015&endDate=8/31/2015&skip=0&filter=market eq 'US' and gender eq 'm'  HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

Response

Response body

Value	Type	Description
Value	array	An array of objects that contain aggregate acquisition data for the app. For more information about the data in each object, see the acquisition values section below.
@nextLink	string	If there are additional pages of data, this string contains a URI that you can use to request the next page of data. For example, this value is returned if the top parameter of the request is set to 10000 but there are more than 10000 rows of acquisition data for the query.
TotalCount	int	The total number of rows in the data result for the query.

Acquisition values

Elements in the Value array contain the following values.

Value	Type	Description
date	string	The first date in the date range for the acquisition data. If the request specified a single day, this value is that date. If the request specified a week, month, or other date range, this value is the first date in that date range.
applicationId	string	The Store ID of the app for which you are retrieving acquisition data.
applicationName	string	The display name of the app.
deviceType	string	One of the following strings that specifies the type of device on which the acquisition occurred: PC Phone Console-Xbox One Console-Xbox Series X IoT Holographic Unknown
orderName	string	The name of the order.
storeClient	string	One of the following strings that indicates the version of the Store where the acquisition occurred: Windows Phone Store (client) Microsoft Store (client) (or Windows Store (client) if querying for data before March 23, 2018) Microsoft Store (web) (or Windows Store (web) if querying for data before March 23, 2018) Volume purchase by organizations Other
osVersion	string	One of the following strings that specifies the OS version on which the acquisition occurred: Windows Phone 7.5 Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8.1 Windows Phone 10 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows 11 Unknown
market	string	The ISO 3166 country code of the market where the acquisition occurred.
gender	string	One of the following strings that specifies the gender of the user who made the acquisition: m f Unknown
ageGroup	string	One of the following strings that specifies the age group of the user who made the acquisition: less than 13 13-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 44-55 greater than 55 Unknown
acquisitionType	string	One of the following strings that indicates the type of acquisition: Free Trial Paid Promotional code Iap Subscription Iap Private Audience Pre Order Xbox Game Pass (or Game Pass if querying for data before March 23, 2018) Disk Prepaid Code
acquisitionQuantity	number	The number of acquisitions that occurred during the specified aggregation level.

Request and Response example

The following code snippets demonstrates some example request and JSON response body for those request.

Sample Request

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/appacquisitions?applicationId=9NBLGGGZ5QDR  HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

Sample Response

{
    "Value": [
        {
            "applicationId": "9NBLGGGZ5QDR",
            "date": "2022-07-29",
            "acquisitionQuantity": 7,
            "purchasePriceUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchasePriceLocalAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxLocalAmount": 0.0
        },
  ],
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "DataFreshnessTimestamp": "2022-07-29T08:42:00"
}

Sample Request

GET https://manage.devcenter.microsoft.com/v1.0/my/analytics/appacquisitions?applicationId=9NBLGGGZ5QDR&startDate=8/1/2021&endDate=12/21/2021&skip=0&filter=market&groupby=date,applicationName,acquisitionType,ageGroup,storeClient,gender,market,osVersion,deviceType  HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer <your access token>

Sample Response

	{
    "Value": [
        {
            "applicationId": "9NBLGGGZ5QDR",
            "applicationName": "Contoso Demo",
            "acquisitionType": "Free",
            "storeClient": "Microsoft Store (client)",
            "gender": "f",
            "market": "TW",
            "osVersion": "Windows 10",
            "deviceType": "PC",
            "date": "2021-08-01",
            "acquisitionQuantity": 1,
            "purchasePriceUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchasePriceLocalAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxLocalAmount": 0.0
        },
        {
            "applicationId": "9NBLGGGZ5QDR",
            "applicationName": "Contoso Demo",
            "acquisitionType": "Free",
            "storeClient": "Microsoft Store (client)",
            "gender": "Unknown",
            "market": "BR",
            "osVersion": "Windows 10",
            "deviceType": "PC",
            "date": "2021-08-01",
            "acquisitionQuantity": 1,
            "purchasePriceUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchasePriceLocalAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxUSDAmount": 0.0,
            "purchaseTaxLocalAmount": 0.0
        },
      ],  
  "TotalCount": 2,
  "DataFreshnessTimestamp": "2022-07-29T08:42:00"
 }

Related topics

• Acquisitions report
• Access analytics data using Microsoft Store services
• Get app acquisition funnel data
• Get app conversions by channel
• Get add-on acquisitions