Account Groups

This article describes services you can use to view, create, and update account groups.

Overview

Use account groups to categorize advertisers by regions, brands, business units, or another category that makes sense to your organization.

Account groups save you time in the following ways:

  • Filtering information for groups of advertisers.

  • Targeting exchanges and deals for groups of advertisers.

  • Allow or deny apps and sites for a group.

  • Reporting on all the advertisers within a group.

Hierarchy

An Account Group is a seat-level object.

Endpoint

/traffic/accountgroups

Use the following HTTP methods:

  • Use the GET method to view an existing account group.

  • Use the POST method to create a new account group.

  • Use the PUT method to update an existing account group.

Resources

The Account Group object contains the following fields:

Field

Description

Data Type

Create

Update

id

Specifies the account group ID.

integer

N/A

Required

name

Specifies the name of the account group.

string

Required

Optional

code

Specifies the shortname of the account group.

Note: The code value cannot be more than ten characters long.

string

Required

Optional

seatId

Specifies the seat ID of the account group.

Note: Once you assign an account group to a seat, you cannot transfer it to another seat.

string

Required

N/A

Read Account Group

Get data about an account group.

GET /traffic/accountgroups/{id}

Parameters

Parameter

Parameter Type

Description

Data Type

Required

id

path

Specifies the account group ID.

integer

Y

Sample Request URL

GET https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups/1

Sample Response

{
  "response": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "North America Region",
    "code": "NAR",
    "seatId": 1
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-04-12T04:49:06Z"
}

Read Account Groups

Get a filtered list of account groups belonging to the specified seat.

GET /traffic/accountgroups?query={query}&sort={sort}&dir={dir}

Parameters

Parameter

Parameter Type

Description

Data Type

Required

query

query

Specifies the search term.

Use URL encoding conventions (i.e. replace spaces with a + or %20).

string

N

sort

query

Specifies the column to sort by.

string

N

dir

query

Specifies the sort direction. Allowed values:

  • ASC: data is sorted in ascending order.

  • DESC: data is sorted in descending order.

string

N

Sample Request URL

GET https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups?query=Test&sort=code&dir=asc

Sample Response

{
  "response": [
    {
      "id": 2491,
      "name": "TWO_POST_3_PUT_Change2",
      "code": "TestCng",
      "seatId": 2
    },
    {
     "id": 2492,
     "name": "Test_ADGroup2",
     "code": "TestAG2",
     "seatId": 2
    }
  ],
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-04-12T04:49:06Z"
}

Update Account Group

Update an existing account group.

PUT /traffic/accountgroups/{id}

Partial updates are supported; values of supported fields that are not in the payload remain unchanged.

Parameters

The Account Group id is specified in the url path. All other fields are specified in the body of the application/json payload.

Sample Request URL

PUT https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups/16546

Sample Request Body

{
  "name": "MNX_Changed",
  "code": "MNX2_PUT"
}

Sample Response

{
  "response": {
    "id": 16546,
    "name": "MNX_Changed",
    "code": "MNX2_PUT",
    "seatId": 2
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-12-18T19:19:11Z"
}

Create Account Group

Create a new account group.

POST /traffic/accountgroups

Parameters

All fields are specified in the body of the application/json payload.

Sample Request URL

POST https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/accountgroups

Sample Request Body

{
  "name": "MNX",
  "code": "MNX2",
  "seatId": 2
}

Sample Response

{
  "response": {
    "id": 16546,
    "name": "MNX",
    "code": "MNX2",
    "seatId": 2
  },
  "errors": null,
  "timeStamp": "2017-12-18T19:11:06Z"
}

Delete Account Group

The DSP Traffic API does not support the deletion of account groups.