# The Trade Desk Platform API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-platform-api/  
**Provider:** The Trade Desk — https://apis.io/providers/the-trade-desk/  
**Base URL:** https://api.thetradedesk.com/v3  
**Documentation:** https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/overview

The Trade Desk Platform API is one of 7 APIs that [The Trade Desk](https://apis.io/providers/the-trade-desk/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Advertising, Campaign Management, Ad Groups, Creatives, and Programmatic. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, an API reference, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.

The Trade Desk Platform API provides REST and GraphQL interfaces for programmatically managing all aspects of programmatic advertising campaigns. Key resources include advertisers, campaigns, ad groups, creatives, bid lists, frequency caps, activity logs, and targeting configurations. Authentication uses token-based credentials obtained via POST to the /v3/authentication endpoint, with the token passed as a TTD-Auth header or Bearer token in subsequent requests.

## Machine-readable artifacts (13)

- **Documentation** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/overview
- **GettingStarted** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/ApiPlatformGetStarted
- **Reference** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/ApiReferencePlatform
- **Authentication** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/area/Authentication
- **RateLimits** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/RateLimits
- **UsageGuidelines** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/ApiUsageGuidelines
- **UseCases** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/ApiUseCases
- **GraphQLDocs** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/GqlApiCallsPlatform
- **GraphQLHub** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/resources/doc/GqlApiHub
- **CampaignGraphQL** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/CampaignCreateGQL
- **ActivityLog** — https://partner.thetradedesk.com/v3/portal/api/doc/ActivityLog
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-trade-desk/refs/heads/main/graphql/the-trade-desk-graphql.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-trade-desk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other The Trade Desk APIs (6)

- [The Trade Desk Real-Time Conversions API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-real-time-conversions-api/)
- [The Trade Desk Reporting API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-reporting-api/)
- [The Trade Desk Advertiser API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-advertiser-api/)
- [The Trade Desk DeletionOptOut API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-deletionoptout-api/)
- [The Trade Desk OfflineConversion API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-offlineconversion-api/)
- [The Trade Desk ThirdParty API](https://apis.io/apis/the-trade-desk/the-trade-desk-thirdparty-api/)

## Tags

Advertising, Campaign Management, Ad Groups, Creatives, Programmatic, REST, GraphQL

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