CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is one of the largest affiliate marketing networks, connecting publishers with thousands of advertiser programs. Its current developer platform is three GraphQL APIs - Commission Detail at commissions.api.cj.com for near-real-time commission and transaction data, Product Search / Ads at ads.api.cj.com for product discovery, product feeds and catalog writes, and Advertiser Tracking at tracking.api.cj.com for submitting, restating and cancelling orders. Alongside them CJ still documents a family of classic XML REST APIs - Link Search, Advertiser Lookup, Publisher Lookup, the Automated Offer Feed and a deprecated Commission Detail - plus two JSON click-tracking APIs, the Click Events API and the Publisher Tracking API. Everything authenticates with a single long-lived personal access token minted by hand in the CJ developer portal; there is no OAuth, no scopes and no programmatic token issuance. GraphQL introspection is open and unauthenticated on all three endpoints.
CJ Affiliate publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including CJ Commission Detail API, CJ Product Search API, Advertiser Lookup API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Network, Commission, Product Search, and Publishers.
The CJ Affiliate catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
CJ Affiliate’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, and 29 more developer resources.
GraphQL API serving near-real-time commission and transaction data. The publisherCommissions and advertiserCommissions queries return commission records filtered by posting, eve...
GraphQL API for product discovery, product feeds and catalog management across advertiser feeds. Ten queries cover common products, retail shoppingProducts (including GTIN and G...
Publisher-side REST API for finding advertisers in the CJ network by CID, program name, program URL or keywords, joined or not joined, returning account status, 7-day and 3-mont...
Publisher-side REST API for finding placeable advertiser links across the whole CJ network in one call - by keyword, sub-category, link type, promotion type and dates, language,...
Advertiser-side REST API for looking up the publishers joined to a program - program terms with accept and expiry dates and join status, promotional methods, websites and PIDs w...
GraphQL API through which advertisers submit the full transaction lifecycle - createOrders for new orders, restateOrders for changes and additions, cancelOrders for full correct...
Server-to-server JSON REST API through which CJ partners register a consumer click and receive back the final landing-page URL carrying the cjevent tracking parameter. Supports ...
Server-to-server JSON REST API through which publishers exchange a standard CJ tracking link for a final destination URL, taking the consumer straight to the advertiser where a ...
DEPRECATED XML REST API for near-real-time commission and item-detail data. CJ's own documentation states it was to be removed on 1 June 2019 and directs integrators to the Grap...
CJ Affiliate ships NO Model Context Protocol server. Searches on 2026-08-13 found no CJ-published remote MCP endpoint, no npm or PyPI package under a CJ or Conversant namespace,...
CJ Affiliate's ONLY event/streaming surface: the GraphQL subscriptions declared on the ads API at https://ads.api.cj.com/query. These are bulk catalog downloads — a subscription...
aid: cj-affiliate
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cj-affiliate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CJ Affiliate
kind: company
description: CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction) is one of the largest affiliate marketing networks, connecting publishers
with thousands of advertiser programs. Its current developer platform is three GraphQL APIs - Commission Detail at commissions.api.cj.com
for near-real-time commission and transaction data, Product Search / Ads at ads.api.cj.com for product discovery, product
feeds and catalog writes, and Advertiser Tracking at tracking.api.cj.com for submitting, restating and cancelling orders.
Alongside them CJ still documents a family of classic XML REST APIs - Link Search, Advertiser Lookup, Publisher Lookup,
the Automated Offer Feed and a deprecated Commission Detail - plus two JSON click-tracking APIs, the Click Events API and
the Publisher Tracking API. Everything authenticates with a single long-lived personal access token minted by hand in the
CJ developer portal; there is no OAuth, no scopes and no programmatic token issuance. GraphQL introspection is open and
unauthenticated on all three endpoints.
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Self-serve signup
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cj-affiliate.png
tags:
- Affiliate Marketing
- Affiliate Network
- Commission
- Product Search
- Publishers
- Advertiser
- GraphQL
- E-Commerce
- Product Feeds
- Conversion Tracking
- Attribution
- Performance Marketing
- Retail
- Coupons
tags_raw:
- Affiliate Marketing
- Affiliate Network
- Commission
- Product Search
- Publisher
- Advertiser
- GraphQL
- Ecommerce
- Product Feeds
- Conversion Tracking
- Attribution
- Performance Marketing
- Retail
- Coupons
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-commission-detail-api
name: CJ Commission Detail API
tags:
- Commissions
- Transaction
- GraphQL
- Reporting
tags_raw:
- Commissions
- Transactions
- GraphQL
- Reporting
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Commission%20Detail
baseURL: https://commissions.api.cj.com/query
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Commission%20Detail
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Commission%20Detail
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-commissions-schema.graphql
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-graphql.md
- type: PostmanCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.opencollection.json
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/cj-affiliate-reconcile-commissions.md
description: GraphQL API serving near-real-time commission and transaction data. The publisherCommissions and advertiserCommissions
queries return commission records filtered by posting, event or locking date range, action status, action type, advertiser
or publisher ids, ad ids and website ids, with monetary amounts, line-item detail, situational commissioning detail and
correction reasons. Responses carry count, maxCommissionId and payloadComplete, supporting an incremental sinceCommissionId
watermark rather than page cursors. Read-only - the schema declares no mutations. Single endpoint POST https://commissions.api.cj.com/query
with a Bearer personal access token.
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-product-search-api
name: CJ Product Search API
tags:
- Product
- Product Feed
- GraphQL
- Shopping
- Travel
- Finance
- Catalog
tags_raw:
- Products
- Product Feed
- GraphQL
- Shopping
- Travel
- Finance
- Catalog
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Product%20Search
baseURL: https://ads.api.cj.com/query
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Product%20Search
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/Product%20Search
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-ads-schema.graphql
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-graphql.md
- type: AsyncAPI
url: asyncapi/cj-affiliate-ads-asyncapi.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/cj-affiliate-discover-products.md
description: GraphQL API for product discovery, product feeds and catalog management across advertiser feeds. Ten queries
cover common products, retail shoppingProducts (including GTIN and Google product category lookup), travelExperienceProducts,
financeProducts and financeCreditCardProducts with full credit-card term sheets, and shoppingProductFeeds / productFeeds
which list every advertiser feed in the network for cold discovery regardless of join status. Five mutations create, update
and delete shopping and credit-card products, and five subscriptions stream an advertiser's entire feed. Single endpoint
POST https://ads.api.cj.com/query with a Bearer personal access token.
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-advertiser-lookup-api
name: CJ Affiliate Advertiser Lookup API
description: Publisher-side REST API for finding advertisers in the CJ network by CID, program name, program URL or keywords,
joined or not joined, returning account status, 7-day and 3-month EPC, primary category, network rank, link types and
default program-term commission rates. Returns XML. Publishers only, 25 calls per minute.
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/advertiser-lookup
baseURL: https://advertiser-lookup.api.cj.com
tags:
- Advertiser Lookup
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-advertiser-lookup-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-advertiser-lookup-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/advertiser-lookup
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/advertiser-lookup
- type: PostmanCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.opencollection.json
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-link-search-api
name: CJ Affiliate Link Search API
description: Publisher-side REST API for finding placeable advertiser links across the whole CJ network in one call - by
keyword, sub-category, link type, promotion type and dates, language, targeted country, relationship status, deep-linking
support and mobile flags. Returns link HTML and JavaScript, click and destination URLs, coupon codes and EPC, as XML.
Also serves the Automated Offer Feed for financial advertisers. Publishers only, 25 calls per minute.
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/link-search
baseURL: https://link-search.api.cj.com
tags:
- Link Search
- Links
- Coupons
- Promotions
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-link-search-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-link-search-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/link-search
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/link-search
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/automated-offer-feed
- type: PostmanCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.opencollection.json
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/cj-affiliate-find-links-to-promote.md
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-publisher-lookup-api
name: CJ Affiliate Publisher Lookup API
description: Advertiser-side REST API for looking up the publishers joined to a program - program terms with accept and
expiry dates and join status, promotional methods, websites and PIDs with categories, country, functional currency, network
rating and EPC. Returns XML. Requires exactly one search criterion alongside requestor-cid. Advertisers only, 25 calls
per minute.
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/publisher-lookup
baseURL: https://publisher-lookup.api.cj.com
tags:
- Publisher Lookup
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-publisher-lookup-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-publisher-lookup-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/publisher-lookup
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/publisher-lookup
- type: PostmanCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
url: collections/cj-affiliate.opencollection.json
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-tracking-api
name: CJ Affiliate Advertiser Tracking API
tags:
- Tracking
- Order
- Transaction
- GraphQL
- Conversion
tags_raw:
- Tracking
- Orders
- Transactions
- GraphQL
- Conversion
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-api-tracking/api-overview
baseURL: https://tracking.api.cj.com/graphql
description: 'GraphQL API through which advertisers submit the full transaction lifecycle - createOrders for new orders,
restateOrders for changes and additions, cancelOrders for full corrections. CJ takes a deterministic approach: an order
is uniquely keyed on Order ID + Action ID + Enterprise ID, and a restatement completely overwrites the order with the
state supplied. Carries typed vertical parameters for Retail, Finance, Travel and Network Services plus arbitrary custom
parameters. A Test Mode endpoint at https://tracking.api.cj.com/graphqltest applies the same validation without posting
to production reporting. Advertisers only; batch at most 10,000 orders per request.'
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-api-tracking/api-overview
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-api-tracking/api-overview
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-tracking-schema.graphql
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-graphql.md
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/cj-affiliate-sandbox.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/cj-affiliate-submit-orders.md
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-click-events-api
name: CJ Affiliate Click Events API
tags:
- Click Tracking
- Attribution
- Privacy
- Partners
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/click-events-api
baseURL: https://clicks.api.cj.com
description: Server-to-server JSON REST API through which CJ partners register a consumer click and receive back the final
landing-page URL carrying the cjevent tracking parameter. Supports bounceless tracking experiences and first-party id
journey mapping. Cannot be called from a browser, rejects unknown fields, and rejects any field containing an email pattern
as consumer PII. On any error the partner must fall back to a traditional CJ tracking click URL.
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-click-events-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-click-events-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/click-events-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/click-events-api
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-publisher-tracking-api
name: CJ Affiliate Publisher Tracking API
tags:
- Click Tracking
- Attribution
- Privacy
- Publishers
tags_raw:
- Click Tracking
- Attribution
- Privacy
- Publisher
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/publisher-tracking-api
baseURL: https://publishertracking.api.cj.com
description: Server-to-server JSON REST API through which publishers exchange a standard CJ tracking link for a final destination
URL, taking the consumer straight to the advertiser where a bounceless journey is appropriate and returning the original
tracking link where it is not. Cannot be called from a browser - the browser-based equivalent is CJ's Publisher Tag. On
any error the publisher must navigate the consumer to the traditional click URL.
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-publisher-tracking-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-publisher-tracking-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/publisher-tracking-api
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/publisher-tracking-api
- aid: cj-affiliate:cj-affiliate-commission-detail-legacy-api
name: CJ Affiliate Commission Detail API (Legacy)
tags:
- Commissions
- Transaction
- Deprecated
- REST
tags_raw:
- Commissions
- Transactions
- Deprecated
- REST
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/commission-detail
baseURL: https://commission-detail.api.cj.com
description: DEPRECATED XML REST API for near-real-time commission and item-detail data. CJ's own documentation states it
was to be removed on 1 June 2019 and directs integrators to the GraphQL Commission Detail API, but the host still answers
with HTTP 401 as of August 2026. Date ranges are capped at 31 days, start-date inclusive and end-date exclusive, and the
commission-id parameter supports the same incremental watermark pattern the GraphQL API exposes as sinceCommissionId.
25 calls per minute.
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/cj-affiliate-commission-detail-legacy-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/cj-affiliate-commission-detail-legacy-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/commission-detail
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/commission-detail
- type: Deprecation
url: lifecycle/cj-affiliate-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/cj-affiliate-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/cj-affiliate-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/cj-affiliate-authentication.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.cj.com/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cj-affiliate-by-conversant
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/
- type: Authentication
url: https://developers.cj.com/account/personal-access-tokens
- type: Plans
url: plans/cj-affiliate-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/cj-affiliate-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/cj-affiliate-finops.yml
- type: Blog
url: https://junction.cj.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://developers.cj.com/docs/rest-apis/overview
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://developers.cj.com/
- type: APIReference
url: https://developers.cj.com/graphql/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://developers.cj.com/account/personal-access-tokens
- type: Support
url: https://www.cj.com/support
- type: SignUp
url: https://www.cj.com/join
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.cj.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.cj.com/legal/privacy
- type: Partners
url: https://www.cj.com/advertiser/tech-partners
- type: GraphQL
url: graphql/cj-affiliate-graphql.md
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/cj-affiliate-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
url: conventions/cj-affiliate-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/cj-affiliate-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/cj-affiliate-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
url: lifecycle/cj-affiliate-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/cj-affiliate-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/cj-affiliate-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
url: sandbox/cj-affiliate-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
url: components/cj-affiliate-components.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/cj-affiliate-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/cj-affiliate-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/cj-affiliate-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
url: mcp/cj-affiliate-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
url: asyncapi/cj-affiliate-ads-asyncapi.yml
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- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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