Amazon - Can't request performance report using Advertising API

Question

I'm getting an error using amazon advertising API. I'm currently trying to request performance report using https://advertising-api.amazon.com/v1/campaigns/report. But the server reply Cannot consume content type

here is my request header and body.

End point : https://advertising-api.amazon.com/v1/campaigns/report

Method Type: POST

Header :

{
     Authorization: 'Bearer xxxxxx',
     Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: '11111111111',
     Content-Type: 'application/json'
}

Body :

{
    campaignType:'sponsoredProducts',
    reportDate:'20180320',
    metrics:'impressions,clicks'
}

I think I did everything correctly as API document but it says

{ "code": "415", "details": "Cannot consume content type" }

Please help me.

Can you post the code with which you are calling the API. I think your JSON body is not in correct format, should be double quotes. — Sandeep Singh, Mar 22 '18 at 13:18
Hi @SandeepRandhawa, I used Postman for testing. so actually there is no any quotes. — Alex, Mar 22 '18 at 13:42
Can you post a screenshot of Postman omitting your credentials of course. — Sandeep Singh, Mar 22 '18 at 13:44
you are sending it as a form data. You should choose raw and type as JSON. Then format the JSON body properly with value in double qoutes. — Sandeep Singh, Mar 22 '18 at 14:11
Thank you. You saved me. now I'm getting correct download URL from response but how can I download that? when I request that url, it also say like above. — Alex, Mar 22 '18 at 14:34

Allwin · Answer 1 · 2018-11-13T05:27:01.583

Try this way

curl -X POST \
  https://advertising-api.amazon.com/v1/campaigns/report \
  -H 'Amazon-Advertising-API-Scope: REPLACE_YOUR_PROFILE_ID' \
  -H 'Authorization: REPLACE_YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Host: advertising-api.amazon.com' \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -d '{
      "campaignType": "sponsoredProducts",
      "metrics": "impressions,clicks",
      "reportDate": "20181101"
    }

And you will get a response like

{
  "reportId": "amzn1.clicksAPI.v1.p1.......",
  "recordType": "campaign",
  "status": "IN_PROGRESS",
  "statusDetails": "Report is being generated."
}

You can put this curl command in Postman also.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 05:07

I think your Body may be missing a parameter. When I successfully make a similar POST I need my body to have at least what you have written as well as the segment type. Try adding this to your body:

{
campaignType:'sponsoredProducts',
reportDate:'20180320',
metrics:'impressions,clicks'
segment:'query'
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 13 '18 at 22:12

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Just copy the body from the documentation and paste it in the raw area (of postman) and choose JSON format. For me it works fine.

edited Jul 13 '18 at 22:12

Mihai Chelaru

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answered Jul 13 '18 at 18:16

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Amazon - Can't request performance report using Advertising API

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