Mobile App Instance service

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This read-only service is used to retrieve app "instances". Each object retrieved by a call to this service is an "instance" of an app described in the Mobile App Service. App instances can be created via the Mobile App Instance List Service.

You can add or remove mobile app instances from your campaign targeting the Profile Service. See the Examples section below.

REST API

HTTP Method Endpoint Description
GET https://api.appnexus.com/mobile-app-instance?id=8 Retrieve a specific instance of a mobile app
GET https://api.appnexus.com/mobile-app-instance View all of the mobile app instances in our system

JSON fields

Name Type Description
instance-bundle array of objects The identifying information associated with this particular instance of an app. For details, see Instance Bundle below.
id int The ID of this app instance.
mobile_app_store_id int The mobile app store this instance is available in. For more information, see the Mobile App Store Service.
store.name string The name of the mobile app store this instance of the app is available in.
store.url string The app store URL where this instance of the app can be found.
mobile_app_store multi_object The mobile app store this instance of the app can be found in.
last_modified date When this app instance was last updated in our system.
created_on date When this app instance was created in our system.

Instance bundle

Name Type Description
bundle_id string The bundle ID associated with this app.
os_family_id int The operating system family ID associated with this app. For details, see the Operating System Family Service.
last_modified date When this instance's bundle was last updated in our system.
created_on date When this instance's bundle was created in our system.

Examples

Get an existing mobile app instance

You can view an existing mobile app instance with a GET call:

$ curl -b cookies 'https://api.appnexus.com/mobile-app-instance?id=108
 
{
    "response": {
        "status": "OK",
        "count": 1,
        "start_element": 0,
        "num_elements": 100,
        "mobile-app-instance": {
            "id": 108,
            "last_modified": "2014-01-16 17:08:50",
            "created_on": "2014-01-16 17:08:50",
            "mobile_app_store": "",
            "instance-bundle": [
                {
                    "bundle_id": "3223423",
                    "os_family_id": 3,
                    "instance_priority_id": 1,
                    "last_modified": "2014-01-23 20:42:57",
                    "created_on": "2014-01-16 17:07:24"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

Add a mobile app instance to your campaign targeting profile

$ cat profile-update.json
 
{
    "profile": {
        "mobile_app_instance_action_include": true,
        "mobile_app_instance_targets": [
            {
                "id": 56
            }
        ]
    }
}
 
$ curl -b cookies -X PUT -d @profile-update.json 'https://api.appnexus.com/profile?id=140537'
 
{
    "response":{
         "profile":{
             "mobile_app_instance_targets":[
                {
                    "deleted":false,
                     "os_family_id":2,
                     "bundle_id":"dsad.com.com",
                     "id":56
                }
            ],
             ...SNIP...
        },
         "num_elements":100,
         "start_element":0,
         "id":"140537",
         "count":1,
         "status":"OK"
    }
}