Content Search service

Note

This service is currently available to a limited set of clients and Microsoft employees only.

Xandr admins can use this read-only service to search for creative IDs that have not been deleted and have not expired, based on the content and media_url attributes of a creative.

Note

After using this service to retrieve creative IDs, you can use other services to lookup additional data. For example, to find out who a particular creative belongs to, you would make a GET call with the creative ID to the Creative Service.

REST API

HTTP Method Endpoint Description
GET https://api.appnexus.com//creative-content-search?q=xxx Search for creative IDs based on terms in content and media_url.

Rules

  • For creative IDs to be returned, ALL search terms must match either content or media_url.
  • Queries must be between 3 and 15 characters. Queries outside this range will not return results.
  • This service does not return expired creatives.
  • This service returns only creative IDs. If more information is required; such as who the creative belongs to, or if you want to join the creative table with other tables, use the IDs returned in future queries/lookups. For more details, see the example below.

JSON fields

Field Type Description
id int The ID of the creative.

Example

Get creative IDs for the 'adnxs' search parameter

$ curl -b cookies -c cookies 'https://api.appnexus.com/creative-content-search?q=adnxs'
{
  "response": {
    "status": "OK",
    "num_elements": 100,
    "start_element": 0,
    "count": 516001,
    "results": [
      {
        "id": 17500999
      },
      {
        "id": 17501020
      },
      {
        "id": 17501040
      },
      {
        "id": 17501052
      },
      {
        "id": 17501060
      },
        ...
    ],
    "dbg_info": {
      "instance": "63.bm-hbapi.prod.nym2",
      "s1ave_hit": false,
      "db": "master",
      "awesomesauce_cache_used": false,
      "count_cache_used": false,
      "warnings": [],
      "time": 154.0949344635,
      "start_microtime": 1423773726.0317,
      "version": "1.15.368",
      "s1ave_miss": "no_service_index",
      "s1ave_lag": 0,
      "member_last_modified_age": 1423773726,
      "output_term": "not_found"
    }
  }
}