# Creative External API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/creative-external-api/  
**Provider:** AppsFlyer — https://apis.io/providers/appsflyer/  
**Base URL:** https://hq1.appsflyer.com/creative-dashboard/api  
**Documentation:** https://dev.appsflyer.com/hc/reference/creative-external-api-overview

Creative External API is one of 72 APIs that [AppsFlyer](https://apis.io/providers/appsflyer/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Creatives, ad-networks, Creative Management, Advertising, and Asynchronous. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

The Creative External API uploads creative assets and publishes ads to ad networks programmatically, bypassing the AppsFlyer Creative Dashboard UI. It is asynchronous — a batch is submitted for upload and publication and returns a batch identifier, then per-item processing status and results are polled separately (AppsFlyer recommends starting at a 5-second poll interval with exponential backoff capped at 60 seconds). Facebook (Meta) is the currently supported destination network. Authenticated with the account API V2 token as a bearer token.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://dev.appsflyer.com/hc/reference/creative-external-api-overview
- **APIReference** — https://dev.appsflyer.com/hc/reference
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/appsflyer/refs/heads/main/authentication/appsflyer-authentication.yml
- **Conventions** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/appsflyer/refs/heads/main/conventions/appsflyer-conventions.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/appsflyer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other AppsFlyer APIs (12)

- [AppsFlyer MCP Server](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-mcp-server/)
- [AppsFlyer Account connections API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-account-connections-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Account Integration API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-account-integration-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Account splits API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-account-splits-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Active audiences API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-active-audiences-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Active integrations API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-active-integrations-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Ad Revenue raw data API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-ad-revenue-raw-data-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Add excluded app API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-add-excluded-app-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Additional Identifiers Handling API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-additional-identifiers-handling-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Aggregate (user acquisition and retargeting) API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-aggregate-user-acquisition-and-retargeting-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Allowed devices API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-allowed-devices-api/)
- [AppsFlyer Android deep linking request API](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/appsflyer-android-deep-linking-request-api/)

## Tags

Creatives, ad-networks, Creative Management, Advertising, Asynchronous, Meta

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/appsflyer/creative-external-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/appsflyer/.