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AdMaven content locker API Documentation

API Documentation - Create content locker

API Endpoint:

** ` POST https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker ` **

Description:

This endpoint allows you to create a link shortener.

The endpoint supports both POST and GET requests

Request Body:

Field Name	Field Description	Field Mandatory	Validation
`title`	The title of the link.	Mandatory	String value, Max 30 characters.
`url`	The final destination of the content monetizer, this is the link you're locking.	Mandatory	String Needs to be a valid link. To avoid problems with specials chars such as $,£ , # and etc' It's reccomended to encode the url (examples below)
`background`	Background is another name for our background, it's the little image/video in the link	Optional	Needs to be a valid link. Could be a link of any image format or a YouTube link.
`sub_id`	sub_id is a feature allowing you to track separately different traffic sources.	Optional	A new sub_id needs to be first configured through the manual upload in publisher panel. In the form of new link creation on publisher panel you can see a list of your ready to use sub_id's. Could be any string up to 7 chars.

POST REQUESTS

Authorization:

When making ** POST ** requests to this API endpoint, you should include your API token in the ** "Authorization" header ** of your HTTP request. Set the header as follows:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN

Replace ** YOUR_API_TOKEN ** with your actual API token obtained from The AdMaven Panel Under API.

Response:

If the request is successful, the API will respond with a success message and the details of the created link shortener.

Example POST Request:

POST https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker

{

"title": "hello",

"url": "https://yourlinkhere.com",

"background": "https://example.com/background.jpg"

}

Example Successfull Response:

{
"type": "created",
"request_time": 556,
"message": {
            "title": "test",
            "url": "https://yourlinkhere.com",
            "background": "https://example.com/background.jpg",
            "short": "xxxx",
            "desturl": "https://onepiecered.co/s?xxxx"
        }
}

Example Failed Response:

{
"type": "error",
"request_time": 3926,
"message": "Missing mandatory field: url"
}

GET REQUEST

We also support passing parameters in the query parameters GET request using the following syntax:

Authorization

Authorization is checked using the ** GET ** request with the query parameter called ** api_token=<YOURTOKEN> ** be sure to change yourtoken to the API token you generate in the panel.

Example GET Request:

GET https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker?api_token=<YOURTOKEN>&title=title&url=url.com&background=imageurl.jpg

Example Successfull Response:

{
  "type": "fetched",
  "request_time": 1519,
  "message": [
    {
      "title": "title",
      "url": "url.com",
      "background": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/beautiful-smooth-haired-red-cat-lies-on-the-sofa-royalty-free-image-1678488026.jpg",
      "short": "nj2v",
      "desturl": "https://onepiecered.co/s?nj2v"
    }
  ]
}

Example Failed Response:

{

"type":"error",

"request_time":572,

"message":"Internal Server Error"
}

API endpoint exmaples

Python GET request

import requests
from urllib.parse import quote

endpoint_url = "https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker"
api_token = "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
headers = {}  # No Authorization header needed for GET requests parameter api_token

destination_url = "https://url.com"
encoded_destination_url = quote(destination_url)

params = {
    "api_token": api_token,
    "title": "title",
    "url": encoded_destination_url,
    "background": "imageurl.jpg"
}

response = requests.get(endpoint_url, params=params, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Python POST request

import requests
from urllib.parse import quote

endpoint_url = "https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker"
api_token = "YOUR_API_TOKEN"
headers = {
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_token}"
}

destination_url = "https://url.com"
encoded_destination_url = quote(destination_url)

params = {
    "title": "title",
    "url": encoded_destination_url,
    "background": "imageurl.jpg"
}

response = requests.post(endpoint_url, params=params, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Javascript GET request

const apiToken = "YOUR_API_TOKEN";
        const title = "title";
        let urlValue = "url.com";
        urlValue = encodeURIComponent(urlValue);
        const background = "imageurl.jpg";

// Construct the URL with query parameters
        const url = https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker?api_token=${apiToken}&title=${title}&url=${urlValue}&background=${background};

// Send GET request
        fetch(url)
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => console.log(data))
            .catch(error => console.error("Error:", error));

Javascript POST request

// API Endpoint
        const url = "https://publishers.ad-maven.com/api/public/content_locker";
        let urlValue = "https://yourlinkhere.com"
        urlValue = encodeURIComponent(urlValue);
        
// Request body data
        const requestBody = {
            title: "hello",
            url: urlValue,
            background: "https://example.com/background.jpg"
        };

// Send POST request
        fetch(url, {
            method: 'POST',
            headers: {
                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                'Authorization': Bearer ${apiToken}
            },
            body: JSON.stringify(requestBody)
        })
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => console.log(data))
            .catch(error => console.error("Error:", error));

Updated on: 29/10/2024

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