CJ Affiliate
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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles CJ Affiliate the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CJ Affiliate scores 47.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile CJ Affiliate
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CJ Affiliate. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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...
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Open Collections 8
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Advertiser Lookup API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Click Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Commission Detail (Legacy) API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Link Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Publisher Lookup API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate Publisher Tracking API
OPEN COLLECTIONCJ Affiliate APIs
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GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
CJ Affiliate GraphQL APIs
CJ Affiliate's current developer surface is **GraphQL**. There are **three**
GRAPHQLPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cj Affiliate Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Cj Affiliate Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
CJ Affiliate Product Catalog Streaming API
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...
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for CJ Affiliate — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
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This is an independent, third-party profile of CJ Affiliate, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
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