SPX Reporting API

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Introduction

Smaato offers an HTTP based reporting API to publishers. The API provides the capability to retrieve traffic and revenue reports for a specific period of time.

Restrictions: Authentication Credentials

Authentication for the SPX Reporting API (2 step process)

Getting your OAuth Credentials from your SPX Account (under OAuth API Credentials)

First, log in to your SPX account and go to OAuth API Credentials in the user menu in the top right corner of SPX.

 

You will then be able to generate API credentials

 

Then, click on Create Client ID and you will get the necessary credentials.

 

Now, you can also generate the access token directly from this page by clicking Generate.

Generating an access token using the credentials (more information under Authentication below).

If you’ve been previously using v1 Authentication and would like to continue doing so, refer to your documentation for Authentication v1.

 

Requests

Authentication

As soon as you have retrieved your authentication credentials (client_id and client_secret) from your SPX Account (under OAuth API Credentials), you need to retrieve an access token to get started.

To do so, make a POST Request to:

https://auth.smaato.com/v2/auth/token/

The following the are data that you need to provide to the POST request: 

client_id – substitute this for your application’s client ID.

client_secret – this is the other credential provided by your account manager

grant_type = client_credentials

Example Access Token Request:

curl --request POST \
--url https://auth.smaato.com/v2/auth/token/ \
--header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET \
--data client_id=CLIENT_ID \
--data grant_type=client_credentials

In response to the POST request, you will receive a JSON object that will have the {access_token}. You may now access our API using this {access_token}.

Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

Example Request

As soon as you are set up with authentication, you can request your reporting data as per the following example. Please note that all parameters are case sensitive.

Example: KPIs for all applications for the given time period.

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-01-01&end=2022-01-31&display-by=APP"

Request Parameters

How to Use Display-By

Display-by are dimensions by which you are able to view your reporting data. By default, you’ll get all data for a given dimension. If you’re looking to get more specific data, see How to Use Filters (below).

Using Multiple Criteria Dimensions

It is possible to view a report by more than one dimension; the second dimension then must be set as split-by parameter. See here an example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-01-01&end=2022-01-31&display-by=APP&split-by=ADSPACE"

How to Use Time Periods

You’ll need to enter a time period to specify the date range for your report (all parameters are mandatory).

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-01-01&end=2022-01-31&display-by=APP"

How to Use Filters

You’ll need to enter a time period to specify the date range for your report (all parameters are

To filter your result set, you can use filters. Filters are a list of objects that reduce the amount of data transferred through the API.

All criteria dimensions (see mapping in appendix) are available as Filters; to get a list of all available values for a dimension, request the according to dimension without any filter.

To view the mapping of the criteria dimension LineItemType, please refer to the Appendix at the end.

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-01-01&end=2022-01-31&display-by=APP&apps=8681,8632"

How to Use Ordering

To order your result set, you may use the following parameters. Specify the criteria that you’d like to order by, and choose between ascending or descending values.

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-01-01&end=2022-01-31&display-by=APP&order=CLICKS&asc=false"

How to Use KPIs

The API will always return all KPIs available.

Please Note:

Responses

The response contains the KPIs per requested criteria and the aggregated total KPIs. Additionally it contains some meta data.

Example:

{
  "data": {
    "lines": [
      {
        "line": {
          "name": "My First App",
          "additionalName": null,
          "entityId": 8681,
          "entityParentId": null,
          "entityType": "APP",
          "active": true,
          "kpis": {
            "grossRevenue": 99.954,
            "netRevenue": 79.786,
            "impressions": 39899,
            "grossEcpm": 2.505,
            "netEcpm": 2,
            "clicks": 948,
            "servedAds": 219876,
            "viewrate": 18.146,
            "ctr": 2.376,
            "adRequests": 407862,
            "fillrate": 53.909
          }
        },
        "splitLines": null
      },
      {
        "line": {
          "name": "My Second App",
          "additionalName": null,
          "entityId": 8632,
          "entityParentId": null,
          "entityType": "APP",
          "active": true,
          "kpis": {
            "grossRevenue": 99.914,
            "netRevenue": 88.95,
            "impressions": 275048,
            "grossEcpm": 0.363,
            "netEcpm": 0.323,
            "clicks": 1618,
            "servedAds": 589826,
            "viewrate": 46.632,
            "ctr": 0.588,
            "adRequests": 943408,
            "fillrate": 62.521
          }
        },
        "splitLines": null
      }
    ],
    "total": {
      "grossRevenue": 199.868,
      "netRevenue": 168.736,
      "impressions": 314947,
      "grossEcpm": 0.635,
      "netEcpm": 0.536,
      "clicks": 2566,
      "servedAds": 809702,
      "viewrate": 38.897,
      "ctr": 0.815,
      "adRequests": 1351270,
      "fillrate": 59.922
    }
  },
  "metaData": {
    "publisherId": 4711,
    "totalNumberOfElements": 2,
    "numberOfElements": 2,
    "offset": 0,
    "displayBy": "APP",
    "splitBy": null,
    "reportId": "ZIOoetOesrKZW/FKAJEBiQ==",
    "timestamp": 1645706483928,
    "duration": 43
  }
}

Errors

Errors are JSON objects in combination with a HTTP error code other than HTTP 200. Error messages are always a list of strings that describe the error at hand.

Example

{
  "globalMessage":"Invalid Data",
  "validationErrors":[{
    "field":"splitBy",
    "message":"Split by 'ADVERTISER' is not supported in combination with display by 'DEAL_ID'"
  }],
  "status":"400 (Bad Request)"
}

Example Use Cases for Daily Revenue

KPIs per day split by Ad Space for previous week

Please specify a start date 6 days prior to the actual date, and that actual date as end date. The specified start and end days are included in the report.

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-02-14&end=2022-02-20&display-by=PERIOD&split-by=ADSPACE"

KPIs per Country for a given time period

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-02-14&end=2022-02-20&display-by=COUNTRY"

KPIs per Line Item for a given time period

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-02-14&end=2022-02-20&display-by=LINEITEM"

KPIs per Creative for a given time period

Example:

curl -H  "Accept: application/json" \
 -H  "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN" \
"https://spx-api.smaato.com/publisherportal/api/reporting/v1/report?start=2022-02-14&end=2022-02-20&display-by=CREATIVE"

Appendix

Line Item Type Mapping

Filter Parameter Name Mapping

Last Modified: May 31, 2023 at 1:11 pm