💼 CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) — Products, Feeds & Advertisers API (BYOC)

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Query the CJ.com GraphQL API at ads.api.cj.com/query for affiliate products, shopping feeds, advertiser discovery, finance credit card products, and travel experiences. BYOC (Bring Your Own Credentials) — you provide your CJ Personal Access Token (PAT) + Company ID (CID). Six query types covering 15k+ advertiser feeds.

✨ Features

• Official CJ GraphQL endpoint — https://ads.api.cj.com/query, Bearer PAT auth (no OAuth flow)
• 6 query types covering discovery and search:
  • shoppingProductFeeds — list ALL shopping feeds available to the publisher (15k+ advertisers, no join required)
  • productFeeds — generic feed discovery
  • products — keyword search across ALL products (requires joined advertisers)
  • shoppingProducts — keyword search restricted to Shopping vertical (requires joined advertisers)
  • financeCreditCardProducts — credit card listings with APR/fees/credit-score-needed
  • travelExperienceProducts — travel & experience products with location + duration
• Keyword filter — array of keywords (applied to product/shopping/travel queries)
• Advertiser ID filter — narrow to specific advertisers found via shoppingProductFeeds
• Pagination — maxResults + offset (CJ API hard cap 1000 per request)
• Anti-bot-immune — official API, no scraping
• NEVER 0 ITEMS guard — actor fails with diagnostic message naming the queryType + likely cause

🔑 BYOC setup (one-time, free, ~10 min)

1. Sign in at https://www.cj.com (you must have a CJ Publisher account; sign-up is free)
2. Go to https://developers.cj.com and click Create Personal Access Token
3. Copy the PAT (one-time display) and paste into the actor input as accessToken
4. Get your Company ID (CID) at https://members.cj.com > Account > Account Information (~7 digits, e.g. 7957587)
5. Paste the CID into companyId

Note: products and shoppingProducts queries only return products from advertisers you have joined. Use shoppingProductFeeds for cold discovery — it lists every advertiser feed in the CJ network regardless of join status.

📥 Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
accessToken	string (secret)	Yes	—	Your CJ Personal Access Token
companyId	string	Yes	—	Your CJ Publisher CID (~7 digits)
queryType	enum	No	shoppingProductFeeds	One of: shoppingProductFeeds, productFeeds, products, shoppingProducts, financeCreditCardProducts, travelExperienceProducts
keywords	string[]	No*	[]	Search keywords (for products / shoppingProducts / travelExperienceProducts)
advertiserIds	string[]	No	[]	Filter to specific advertiser IDs (discover via shoppingProductFeeds first)
maxResults	integer	No	25	Items per request (1-1000)
offset	integer	No	0	Pagination offset

*Keywords are required for products, shoppingProducts, and travelExperienceProducts; ignored for feed/finance queries.

Input example (JSON) — discovery mode

{
  "accessToken": "your_cj_pat_here",
  "companyId": "7957587",
  "queryType": "shoppingProductFeeds",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "offset": 0
}

Input example (JSON) — product search

{
  "accessToken": "your_cj_pat_here",
  "companyId": "7957587",
  "queryType": "shoppingProducts",
  "keywords": ["smart watch", "fitness tracker"],
  "advertiserIds": ["3651573", "3508051"],
  "maxResults": 50
}

📤 Output

Each record carries the queryType flag plus type-specific fields. Example shoppingProductFeeds output:

{
  "queryType": "shoppingProductFeeds",
  "advertiserId": "3651573",
  "advertiserName": "Best Buy",
  "feedName": "Best Buy US Shopping Feed",
  "feedLanguage": "en",
  "feedCurrency": "USD",
  "feedLastUpdated": "2026-05-14T03:00:00Z",
  "feedProductCount": 145329,
  "feedTargetCountry": "US",
  "adId": "12345678",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-15T14:30:00Z"
}

Example financeCreditCardProducts output:

{
  "queryType": "financeCreditCardProducts",
  "advertiserId": "4504329",
  "advertiserName": "American Express",
  "productId": "amex_blue_cash",
  "title": "Blue Cash Everyday® Card",
  "cardType": "Cash Back",
  "creditScoreNeeded": "Good to Excellent (670-850)",
  "annualMemFee": "$0",
  "purchaseIntroApr": "0% intro APR for 15 months",
  "regularApr": "19.24% - 29.99% Variable",
  "foreignTransactionFee": "2.7%",
  "link": "https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-...",
  "imageLink": "https://www.americanexpress.com/.../card.png"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event (item-scraped): charged once per result successfully returned by the CJ API. Zero-result queries do not charge.

🚀 Use cases

• Cold advertiser discovery — surface 15k+ CJ feeds without joining anything first (use shoppingProductFeeds)
• Credit card affiliate research — APR / annual-fee comparison for finance publishers
• Travel product catalog — pull experience inventory with location + duration
• Joined-advertiser product search — pull a fresh product feed for advertisers you already work with
• Competitive intel — discover which advertisers in your vertical have active feeds (and how big they are)

⚠️ Common errors

Error	Cause	Fix
[CJ_API] 401 Unauthorized	PAT expired or revoked	Generate a new PAT at developers.cj.com
[CJ_API] 403 Forbidden on products/shoppingProducts	You have not joined any advertisers yet	Use shoppingProductFeeds first, request to join interesting advertisers, retry product search
[CJ_API] GraphQL errors: Field X not found	Outdated GraphQL schema reference	Update to latest actor build; CJ adds/removes fields without notice
[FAIL] Zero items returned from CJ	Keywords too narrow OR queryType requires joined advertisers	Read the diagnostic message — actor lists 4 likely causes
[INPUT] companyId is required	CID missing	Get from members.cj.com > Account Information

🔒 Privacy

Your PAT is sent directly to ads.api.cj.com over HTTPS. We never store, log, or proxy it through our servers. Mark accessToken as secret in the Apify input form.

📚 Related actors

• Impact.com Affiliate API — Impact Publisher API (BYOC)
• Rakuten Affiliate Merchants — Rakuten API (BYOC)
• Awin Multi-Merchant — Awin Publisher API (BYOC)
• Etsy Product Intelligence — Etsy Open API v3 (BYOC)
• ClickBank Marketplace Intelligence — ClickBank digital products

🆕 Changelog

• v1.0 (2026-05-14): Initial release. 6 query types (shoppingProductFeeds / productFeeds / products / shoppingProducts / financeCreditCardProducts / travelExperienceProducts). Bearer PAT auth. NEVER 0 ITEMS guard with 4-cause diagnostic.

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💼 CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction) — API de Produtos, Feeds e Advertisers (BYOC)

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Consulta a API GraphQL da CJ.com em ads.api.cj.com/query para produtos afiliados, feeds de shopping, descoberta de advertisers, cartões de crédito e produtos de viagem. BYOC (Bring Your Own Credentials) — você fornece seu PAT (Personal Access Token) + CID (Company ID) da CJ. Seis tipos de query cobrindo 15k+ feeds de advertisers.

✨ Recursos

• Endpoint oficial CJ GraphQL — Bearer PAT, sem OAuth
• 6 tipos de query:
  • shoppingProductFeeds — lista TODOS os feeds disponíveis (15k+, sem precisar fazer "join")
  • productFeeds — descoberta genérica
  • products — busca por keyword em todos os produtos (exige advertisers joined)
  • shoppingProducts — busca apenas no vertical Shopping (exige advertisers joined)
  • financeCreditCardProducts — cartões com APR/anuidade/score
  • travelExperienceProducts — viagens e experiências com local + duração
• Filtro de keywords + filtro por advertiserIds
• Paginação — maxResults + offset (limite CJ 1000 por requisição)
• Imune a anti-bot — API oficial
• NUNCA 0 ITENS — falha com mensagem diagnóstica nomeando o queryType e a causa provável

🔑 Setup BYOC (uma vez, grátis, ~10 min)

1. Crie conta Publisher em https://www.cj.com (grátis)
2. Em https://developers.cj.com clique Create Personal Access Token
3. Copie o PAT (exibido uma única vez) e cole no input em accessToken
4. Encontre seu CID em https://members.cj.com > Account > Account Information (~7 dígitos)
5. Cole o CID em companyId

products e shoppingProducts só retornam advertisers em que você fez join. Para descoberta a frio, use shoppingProductFeeds.

📥 Input

Parâmetro	Tipo	Obrigatório	Default	Descrição
accessToken	string (secret)	Sim	—	Seu PAT da CJ
companyId	string	Sim	—	Seu CID Publisher (~7 dígitos)
queryType	enum	Não	shoppingProductFeeds	Um dos 6 acima
keywords	string[]	Não*	[]	Para queries de busca
advertiserIds	string[]	Não	[]	Filtro por advertiser
maxResults	integer	Não	25	Itens por request (1-1000)
offset	integer	Não	0	Paginação

💰 Cobrança

Pay-per-event item-scraped: cobrado por resultado retornado pela API. Query com zero resultado não cobra.

🚀 Casos de uso

• Descoberta de advertisers (15k+ feeds sem precisar joinar)
• Pesquisa de afiliados de finanças (cartões de crédito)
• Catálogo de produtos de viagem
• Atualização de feed de advertisers que você já trabalha
• Inteligência competitiva por vertical

⚠️ Erros comuns

• [CJ_API] 401 Unauthorized: PAT expirado/revogado — gerar novo em developers.cj.com
• [CJ_API] 403 Forbidden on products: precisa joinar advertisers — use shoppingProductFeeds primeiro
• [FAIL] Zero items returned: leia o diagnóstico do actor — 4 causas prováveis listadas

🔒 Privacidade

PAT enviado diretamente para ads.api.cj.com via HTTPS. Não armazenamos nem logamos credenciais.

📚 Actors relacionados

• Impact.com Affiliate API
• Rakuten Affiliate Merchants
• Awin Multi-Merchant
• Etsy Product Intelligence
• ClickBank Marketplace Intelligence

🆕 Changelog

• v1.0 (2026-05-14): release inicial, 6 query types, NUNCA 0 ITENS guard.