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Targets Service

This SOAP service provides operations for managing your targets.

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Targets

This SOAP service provides operations for managing your targets.
Service endpoint URL (WSDL definition) is https://api.oddbytes.com/?v3=targets.wsdl .

Service Operation

Operation

Result Type

Descrition

Returns the list of compound ID values for your targets belonging to your selected campaigns and/or creatives. Please note that it is not allowed to specify both campaigns and creatives filters as Null, at least one of them is required.

Returns the parameters stored for your already existing targets, please see type Target for more details.

Adds new targets into your already existing creative. Please note that stored targets and max. bids can be different than the specified values, due to transformations performed before adding targets and bids rounding or your minimal and maximal allowed bids; see types Target , TargetAdd and TargetAdded and/or operation getRegions() for more details.

Performs changes to your already existing targets, by changing the max. bids. Please note that stored max. bids can be different than the specified values, due to rounding or your minimal and maximal allowed bids; see type Target and operation getRegions() for more details.

Resumes your already existing and currently paused or rejected targets.

Pauses your already existing and currently non–paused targets.

Deletes already existing targets from your account. Please note that once deleted, targets can not be accessed any longer or undeleted later.

Returns suggested targets that can be used within your creatives. Please note that for each request at most 1,000 suggested targets currently having highest activity are returned, see type TargetSuggested for more details.

getTargetIds

Returns the list of compound ID values for your targets belonging to your selected campaigns and/or creatives. Please note that it is not allowed to specify both campaigns and creatives filters as Null, at least one of them is required.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

campaignIds

unsignedInt[] (1:50)

Optional filter specification for campaign ID values

creativeIds

unsignedInt[] (1:100)

Optional filter specification for creative ID values

filterNames

string[] (1:100)

Optional filter specification for targets (keywords or URLs)
UTF-8 encoding is required, while all characters from CP-1252 are supported

TargetIdsResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

ids

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for your targets

getTargets

Returns the parameters stored for your already existing targets, please see type Target for more details.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targetIds

TargetId[] (1:1000)

List of targets compound ID values

fetchStats

bool

Option for also fetching activity, ranks and brief stats data for the returned targets

TargetsResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targets

Target[] (0:unbound)

Targets data stored for your already existing targets

addTargets

Adds new targets into your already existing creative. Please note that stored targets and max. bids can be different than the specified values, due to transformations performed before adding targets and bids rounding or your minimal and maximal allowed bids; see types Target , TargetAdd and TargetAdded and/or operation getRegions() for more details.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

creativeId

unsignedInt

Creative ID value for the destination creative

targets

TargetAdd[] (1:1000)

Targets definition data

TargetsAddResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

added

TargetAdded[] (0:unbound)

List of the successfully added targets

ignored

TargetIgnored[] (0:unbound)

List of targets that were ignored during the addition

updateTargets

Performs changes to your already existing targets, by changing the max. bids. Please note that stored max. bids can be different than the specified values, due to rounding or your minimal and maximal allowed bids; see type Target and operation getRegions() for more details.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targets

TargetUpdate[] (1:100000)

Targets parameters to be updated

TargetsUpdateResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

updated

TargetUpdated[] (0:unbound)

List of the successfully updated targets

unchangedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for unchanged targets

resumeTargets

Resumes your already existing and currently paused or rejected targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targetIds

TargetId[] (1:1000)

List of targets compound ID values

TargetsStatusResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

changedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for successfully changed targets

unchangedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for unchanged targets

pauseTargets

Pauses your already existing and currently non–paused targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targetIds

TargetId[] (1:1000)

List of targets compound ID values

TargetsStatusResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

changedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for successfully changed targets

unchangedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for unchanged targets

deleteTargets

Deletes already existing targets from your account. Please note that once deleted, targets can not be accessed any longer or undeleted later.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targetIds

TargetId[] (1:1000)

List of targets compound ID values

TargetsDeleteResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

deletedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for successfully deleted targets

getSuggested

Returns suggested targets that can be used within your creatives. Please note that for each request at most 1,000 suggested targets currently having highest activity are returned, see type TargetSuggested for more details.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

pattern

string

Search pattern for targets suggestion — asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard character
UTF-8 encoding is required, while all characters from CP-1252 are supported

regionCode

string

Targeted region code; please see operation getRegions() for more details

creativeType

CreativeType

Creative type; please note that suggestions are different for each type
Enum Type: string
Enum Values: DISPLAY, TEXTLINK, SLIDEBAR, PEELBACK, PUSH, POSTCHECKOUT

TargetsSuggestResult

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targets

TargetSuggested[] (0:1000)

Suggested targets that can be used within your creatives

TargetIdsResult

Return value type used while fetching compound ID values of your targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

ids

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for your targets

TargetId

Value type representing the compound ID value of a target.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

creativeId

unsignedInt

Creative ID value, as the target's parent element

targetId

unsignedInt

Target ID value

TargetsResult

Return value type used while fetching stored data for your already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targets

Target[] (0:unbound)

Targets data stored for your already existing targets

Target

Return value type used while fetching stored data for your already existing target.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

id

Compound ID value of the target

target

string

Target value (keyword or URL)

status

TargetStatus

Target status
Enum Type: string
Enum Values: ACTIVE, PAUSED, AWAITING APPROVAL, REJECTED, COMPLETED, NO FUNDS, DELETED, ARCHIVED

creativeType

CreativeType

Type of the creative targets belongs to
Enum Type: string
Enum Values: DISPLAY, TEXTLINK, SLIDEBAR, PEELBACK, PUSH, POSTCHECKOUT

regionCode

string

Targeted region; please see operation getRegions() for more details and the list of available regions codes

maxBid

float

Max. bid value for the target; please note that max. bid values are stored as rounded to three decimal places for DISPLAY creatives, and rounded to two decimal places for other creatives types

created

dateTime

Date and time of target creation

modified

dateTime

Date and time of last target modification

stats

Activity, opening bid, average rank and estimated rank stats data for the target, returned only if requested; please see operation getTargets() for more details

TargetStats

Return value type used while fetching activity, ranks and brief stats data for your already existing target.

Please note that at most one of the properties averageRank and estimatedRank can be received as a non–Null value, meaning that values for average rank and rank estimate are never available both at the same time. However, they can be both received as Null in case the target has not had any clicks or impressions recently.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

activity

unsignedInt

Region–level activity for the target, represented by integer value between 0 and 5; receiving 0 means that target currently has no activity, while receiving 5 means the target is highly active

openingBid

float

Opening bid for the target; receiving Null means that target has not had any clicks or impressions recently and no value is available

averageRank

float

Average rank for the target, calculated for the current hour; receiving Null means that you received no clicks or impressions in the current hour for the target, and no average rank is available

estimatedRank

TargetEstimatedRank

Estimated rank for the target, based on your current max. bid; receiving Null means that target has not had any clicks or impressions recently and no rank estimate is available
Enum Type: string
Enum Values: LOW, MEDIUM, GOOD

lastServed

dateTime

Date and time of last received impression (for Display creatives) or click (for Textlink creatives); receiving Null means having no impressions or clicks received yet

TargetsAddResult

Return value type used while adding new targets into your creatives.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

added

TargetAdded[] (0:unbound)

List of the successfully added targets

ignored

TargetIgnored[] (0:unbound)

List of targets that were ignored during the addition

TargetAdded

Return value type used for the targets added while adding new targets into your creative.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

id

Compound ID value of the target

target

string

Target value (keyword or URL); please note that it can be different than the specified value due to transformations performed before adding targets, see type TargetAdd and operation addTargets() for more details

maxBid

float

Stored max. bid value; please note that it can be different than the specified value due to rounding or your minimal and maximal allowed bids, see type Target and operation getRegions() for more details

TargetIgnored

Return value type used for the targets ignored while adding new targets into your creative.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

target

string

Target value (keyword or URL)

description

string

Explanation of why the specified target was actually ignored

TargetAdd

Value type used for specifying target definition data while adding new targets into your creatives.
Please note that targeted region is inherited by the targets from the creative into which new targets are actually added.

UTF-8 characters allowed within targets are including the following: 0–9 a–z A–Z . / - _ ~ ' + & ? = ¡ ¨ ¿–Ö Ø–ö ø–ÿ

Before adding targets, specified values are transformed so all whitespace (multiple spaces, tabs, new lines etc.) is replaced with single spaces, all remaining leading or trailing whitespace is trimmed, strings like www.&nbsp and http://&nbsp are removed from the beginning of targets, any leading or trailing characters + - .&nbsp are trimmed, and any trailing character / is trimmed.

Minimum length for a target is two characters. Maximum length for a target is 100 characters for URL and 244 characters for other keyword. Target is allowed to have at most eight subwords.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

target

string

Target to be added
UTF-8 encoding is required, while selected characters from CP-1252 are supported

maxBid

float

Max. bid value for the target; please note that no trailing zeroes are allowed to be specified after the decimal point

TargetsUpdateResult

Return value type used while updating your already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

updated

TargetUpdated[] (0:unbound)

List of the successfully updated targets

unchangedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for unchanged targets

TargetUpdated

Return value type used for the targets having their max. bids updated while updating your already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

id

Compound ID value of the target

maxBid

float

Stored max. bid value; can be different than the specified max. bid due to your minimal and maximal allowed bids; please see operation getRegions() for more details

TargetUpdate

Value type used for specifying target parameters while updating already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

id

Compound ID value of the target

maxBid

float

Max. bid value for the target; please note that no trailing zeroes are allowed to be specified after the decimal point

TargetsStatusResult

Return value type used while changing statuses for your already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

changedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for successfully changed targets

unchangedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for unchanged targets

TargetsDeleteResult

Return value type used while deleting your already existing targets.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

deletedIds

TargetId[] (0:unbound)

List of compound ID values for successfully deleted targets

TargetsSuggestResult

Return value type used while fetching suggested targets that can be used within your creatives.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

targets

TargetSuggested[] (0:1000)

Suggested targets that can be used within your creatives

TargetSuggested

Return value type used while fetching suggested target that can be used within your creatives.

Property

Type

Null Allowed

Description

target

string

Target value (keyword or URL)

activity

unsignedInt

Region–level activity for the target, represented by integer value between 0 and 5; receiving 0 means that target currently has no activity, while receiving 5 means the target is highly active

openingBid

float

Opening bid for the target; receiving Null means that target has not had any clicks or impressions recently and no value is available

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