# CJ Affiliate

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cj-affiliate/  
**Website:** https://www.cj.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 50.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 69.6 |
| Governance | 30.3 |
| Contract Governance | 30.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 63.2 |
| Access Clarity | 63.2 |

## Agent readiness — 42.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **CJ Commission Detail API** — GraphQL API serving near-real-time commission and transaction data. The publisherCommissions and advertiserCommissions queries return commission records filtered by posting, eve...
- **CJ Product Search API** — GraphQL API for product discovery, product feeds and catalog management across advertiser feeds. Ten queries cover common products, retail shoppingProducts (including GTIN and G...
- **CJ Affiliate Advertiser Lookup API** — 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...
- **CJ Affiliate Link Search API** — 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,...
- **CJ Affiliate Publisher Lookup API** — 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...
- **CJ Affiliate Advertiser Tracking API** — GraphQL API through which advertisers submit the full transaction lifecycle - createOrders for new orders, restateOrders for changes and additions, cancelOrders for full correct...
- **CJ Affiliate Click Events API** — 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 ...
- **CJ Affiliate Publisher Tracking API** — 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 ...
- **CJ Affiliate Commission Detail API (Legacy)** — 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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **CJ Affiliate MCP Server** — 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,...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cj Affiliate Agentic Access** — 24 operations · 10 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Cj Affiliate Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Cj Affiliate Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cj Affiliate Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Network, Commission, Product Search, Publishers, Advertiser, GraphQL, E-Commerce, Product Feeds, Conversion Tracking, Attribution, Performance Marketing, Retail, Coupons

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cj-affiliate/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.