POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines: Set the creator guidelines

Overview

Set what every booked creator of one campaign reads: pitch (what the post should get across, up to 800 characters), key_messages, references (https links), voice (up to 300 characters), dos and donts (each list up to 8 items of up to 200 characters). Replaces the campaign's guidelines as a whole; a field left out is cleared. An archived campaign is refused (conflict, archived). Creators read the pitch, dos and donts with their proposal and everything once they accept; they never see a price, a budget or an email. campaign_status returns them. Needs an idempotency_key. Scope: campaigns:write. MCP tool: set_creator_guidelines.

Endpoint: POST https://app.distribution.tech/api/v1/campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines
Scope: campaigns:write
Changes data: Yes, send an Idempotency-Key header
MCP tool: set_creator_guidelines

Parameters

Parameters of POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines
Name	In	Type	Required	Description
`id`	path	string (uuid)	Yes
`Idempotency-Key`	header	string	Yes	8 to 128 letters, digits or . _ : -. Retry with the same key and the same request to get the same answer; it never runs twice.

Request body

Request body of POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines
Name	Type	Required
`pitch`	string	No
`key_messages`	array of string	No
`references`	array of string	No
`voice`	string	No
`dos`	array of string	No
`donts`	array of string	No

JSON body, every field

{
  "pitch": "<string>",
  "key_messages": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "references": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "voice": "<string>",
  "dos": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "donts": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}

Request with curl

Set DISTRIBUTION_API_KEY to a key from Developers with the campaigns:write scope, and each path variable to an id from an earlier answer. The body carries the required fields.

curl

curl -X POST "https://app.distribution.tech/api/v1/campaigns/$CAMPAIGN_ID/creator-guidelines" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISTRIBUTION_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "pitch": "<string>",
  "key_messages": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "references": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "voice": "<string>",
  "dos": [
    "<string>"
  ],
  "donts": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}'

Response

200 OK. The body has these fields:

Response fields of POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines
Name	Type	Required	Description
`campaign_id`	string (uuid)	Yes
`creator_guidelines`	object	Yes

200 response body, every field with its type

{
  "campaign_id": "<uuid>",
  "creator_guidelines": {
    "pitch": "<string>",
    "key_messages": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "references": [
      "<uri>"
    ],
    "voice": "<string>",
    "dos": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "donts": [
      "<string>"
    ]
  }
}

Errors

Error statuses of POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines
Status	When
`400`	A parameter is not valid: details.problems names each field and what it accepts.
`401`	No API key, an unknown one, or a revoked one.
`403`	The key lacks the scope, or the mandate refuses (mandate_refused, with the limit and how much over).
`404`	No plan, line or creator of yours has that id.
`409`	conflict (with a reason), idempotency_conflict, or in_progress (Retry-After).
`422`	unprocessable: the body is readable but a value cannot be used (a blank or too long name, a campaign that cannot be planned yet); details.problems names each field when there are several.
`429`	Too many requests for this key in the current minute (60); Retry-After and RateLimit-Reset say when to try again. On POST /campaigns and on POST /plans/current/lines when it starts a plan: the brand's 3 new campaigns in 24 hours are used (details.reason daily_campaign_limit); details.resets_at and Retry-After say when the limit reopens, a rolling 24 hours from the first of them, not a calendar day; archiving or deleting a campaign does not give its slot back. On GET /creators and GET /creators/{id}: a creator read limit is used (details.reason per_minute, daily_lists, daily_reveals, daily_seen or locked). daily_seen is your workspace's one pool of 300 creator views a day (300 different creators shown or opened since midnight UTC), shared by the app and every API key of the brand: details.scope workspace and details.limit 300; a creator already seen today, in the app or through any key, still opens and costs nothing. The other reasons are this key's own limit (details.scope key) or the brand's ceiling over all its keys (details.scope api).
`500`	internal: the request failed on our side. Retry it with the same Idempotency-Key.
`503`	unavailable: writes are not available right now (for an approval: payments are not open yet).

GET /campaigns: Your campaigns and where each stands
POST /campaigns: Start a campaign
GET /campaigns/{id}: Where one campaign stands
PATCH /campaigns/{id}: Rename a campaign
DELETE /campaigns/{id}: Delete a draft campaign
POST /campaigns/{id}/archive: Archive a campaign

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