Watch the video or refer to the written instructions below

This checklist will take you through the process of starting with the Criteo APIs. The steps are divided into several categories, some of which you might decide to skip if they don't apply to your needs. Read and execute the steps in order to get the most from this document.

The list contains three types of items:

✔ Todo: Steps that are required to perform a certain task or set up a certain part of your app
💡 Info: Information that is not critical for the process but will help you understand the context or clarify certain steps.
🚨Warning: Things to be aware of throughout the process might involve additional implementation effort or incur certain risks.

Getting familiar with Criteo Retail Media Platform

💡 Learn more about Criteo RMP: Head over to the RMP Knowledge Center

Getting started with access

Create a Criteo developer account

✔ Start by creating your Criteo developer account (if you already have an account, please skip this step): Go to our landing page at developers.criteo.com and click on Get Started

✔ Complete our registration form to create a Criteo developer account: You will receive a confirmation email to finish the process

Create your organization once you have created your Criteo developer account
✔ Complete the organization details form
✔ Once created, you will have access to the developer portal

Modifying an Account or Organization

💡 If you want to modify your Account, please see our article Managing my developer account
💡 If you want to modify your Organization, please see our article Managing my organization

Learning how to use Criteo endpoints

Create an app
✔ Once you have created your organization, you can access the MyApps page. This page will give you a summary of the apps you have created.

✔ To start creating an app, click on the Start building button. Define an app name, description, and image to create your app.

✔ These fields will be editable before publishing an app (for more details, see the Managing my app

App name, image, and description
💡 these elements will be visible to the Advertisers, Brands, or Publishers you will share your App with. So please provide content describing your business and inspiring confidence in your App users.

Get your app credentials
✔ Get your API credentials once your app is created. Start creating a set of credentials by clicking on Generate and downloading a new key. This will create a new set of credentials (API Key and API Secret)

✔ API Key will be available in the credentials table, and the secret will only be provided once (a file with the secret will automatically download when creating a set of credentials) please keep it preciously! For more details about credentials, please see the Create your app

Managing my credentials
💡 You will be limited to 5 API credentials for an App (for ex. 1 for production, 1 for troubleshooting, and 3 others for any other use case you can imagine)
💡 For more details about how to edit and delete credentials, please see the Create your app

API Secret shared only once
🚨 API Secret will be available in the file automatically downloaded when creating a set of credentials) please keep it preciously as it will be the only time we will be able to share it with you!

Define your App scope

Select the services you would like to access through your app (Marketing Solutions, Retail Media, or Publisher)
✔ Once you are sure and you have chosen a Service, please click on Save. This action cannot be undone.

Saving the Service cannot be undone
🚨 Once you click on save, you won't be able to switch between Marketing Solutions, Publisher, or Retail Media anymore! So please chose carefully (and in case you made a mistake, it is not that bad, just create a new app 😉)

Then select the authorizations you would need for your app
✔ Click on the Save button to save your authorization selection.
✔ You can update the authorizations as many times as you want before validating your app through the Generate consent link button

Validate your app and generate a consent URL

Click on Generate & Copy URL to finish your app
✔ This will generate a consent link you can share with an advertiser/brand/publisher to get the authorization to access their assets.
✔ Changing the name, description, image, or app scope will no longer be available after the first URL creation.
✔ You can generate as many URLs as you want, and each URL can only be used once.

Validating an App sets the App information and scope
🚨 Changing the name, description, image or app scope will no longer be available after the first URL creation.

More information about how authorization works
💡 For more details on how it works, please see the Send an authorization request to your users

Start using your API connection

Once you click on Generate & Copy URL, the consent URL will be directly copied into your clipboard
✔ Once you click on Generate & Copy URL, the consent URL will be directly copied into your clipboard.
✔ Share your URL by email, Slack, or any other means to your Advertiser, Brand, or Publisher.
✔ Once they click the link, they will be redirected to the Criteo Consent Portal, where they can provide you with the requested authorization levels for the accounts in their portfolio.

Start using the Criteo API endpoints
✔ You will then be able to use the domains in your scope for those advertisers/brands/publishers and start using Criteo APIs! 🎉