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HTTP API connection

Overview overview

IMPORTANT
This destination is available only to Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform Ultimate customers.

The HTTP API destination is an Adobe Experience Platform streaming destination that helps you send profile data to third-party HTTP endpoints.

To send profile data to HTTP endpoints, you must first connect to the destination in Adobe Experience Platform.

Use cases use-cases

The HTTP API destination allows you to export XDM profile data and audiences to generic HTTP endpoints. There, you can run your own analytics or perform any other operations you may need on profile data exported out of Experience Platform.

HTTP endpoints can be either customers’ own systems or third-party solutions.

Supported audiences supported-audiences

This section describes which types of audiences you can export to this destination.

Audience origin
Supported
Description
Segmentation Service
Audiences generated through the Experience Platform Segmentation Service.
Custom uploads
Audiences imported into Experience Platform from CSV files.

Export type and frequency export-type-frequency

Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.

Item
Type
Notes
Export type
Profile-based
You are exporting all members of a segment, together with the desired schema fields (for example: email address, phone number, last name), as chosen in the mapping screen of the destination activation workflow.
Export frequency
Streaming
Streaming destinations are “always on” API-based connections. As soon as a profile is updated in Experience Platform based on audience evaluation, the connector sends the update downstream to the destination platform. Read more about streaming destinations.

Prerequisites prerequisites

To use the HTTP API destination to export data out of Experience Platform, you must meet the following prerequisites:

  • You must have an HTTP endpoint that supports REST API.
  • Your HTTP endpoint must support the Experience Platform profile schema. No transformation to a 3rd-party payload schema is supported in the HTTP API destination. Refer to the exported data section for an example of the Experience Platform output schema.
  • Your HTTP endpoint must support headers.
TIP
You can also use Adobe Experience Platform Destination SDK to set up an integration and send Experience Platform profile data to an HTTP endpoint.

IP address allowlist ip-address-allowlist

To meet customers’ security and compliance requirements, Experience Platform provides a list of static IPs that you can allowlist for the HTTP API destination. Refer to IP address allowlist for streaming destinations for the complete list of IPs to allowlist.

Supported authentication types supported-authentication-types

The HTTP API destination supports several authentication types to your HTTP endpoint:

  • HTTP endpoint with no authentication;
  • Bearer token authentication;
  • OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication with the body form, with client ID, client secret, and grant type in the body of the HTTP request, as shown in the example below.
curl --location --request POST '<YOUR_API_ENDPOINT>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
--data-urlencode 'client_id=<CLIENT_ID>' \
--data-urlencode 'client_secret=<CLIENT_SECRET>'
  • OAuth 2.0 client credentials with basic authorization, with an authorization header which contains URL-encoded client ID and client secret.
curl --location --request POST 'https://some-api.com/token' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic base64(clientId:clientSecret)' \
--header 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials'

Connect to the destination connect-destination

IMPORTANT
To connect to the destination, you need the View Destinations and Manage Destinations access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.

To connect to this destination, follow the steps described in the destination configuration tutorial. When connecting to this destination, you must provide the following information:

Authentication information authentication-information

Bearer token authentication bearer-token-authentication

If you select the Bearer token authentication type to connect to your HTTP endpoint, input the fields below and select Connect to destination:

Image of the UI screen where you can connect to the HTTP API destination, using bearer token authentication.

  • Bearer token: insert the bearer token to authenticate to your HTTP location.

No authentication no-authentication

If you select the None authentication type to connect to your HTTP endpoint:

Image of the UI screen where you can connect to the HTTP API destination, using no authentication.

When you select this authentication open, you only need to select Connect to destination and the connection to your endpoint is established.

OAuth 2 Password authentication oauth-2-password-authentication

If you select the OAuth 2 Password authentication type to connect to your HTTP endpoint, input the fields below and select Connect to destination:

Image of the UI screen where you can connect to the HTTP API destination, using OAuth 2 with Password authentication.

  • Access Token URL: The URL on your side which issues access tokens and, optionally, refresh tokens.
  • Client ID: The client ID that your system assigns to Adobe Experience Platform.
  • Client Secret: The client secret that your system assigns to Adobe Experience Platform.
  • Username: The username to access your HTTP endpoint.
  • Password: The password to access your HTTP endpoint.

OAuth 2 Client Credentials authentication oauth-2-client-credentials-authentication

If you select the OAuth 2 Client Credentials authentication type to connect to your HTTP endpoint, input the fields below and select Connect to destination:

Image of the UI screen where you can connect to the HTTP API destination, using OAuth 2 with Client Credentials authentication.

  • Access Token URL: The URL on your side which issues access tokens and, optionally, refresh tokens.

  • Client ID: The client ID that your system assigns to Adobe Experience Platform.

  • Client Secret: The client secret that your system assigns to Adobe Experience Platform.

  • Client Credentials Type: Select the type of OAuth2 Client Credentials grant supported by your endpoint:

    • Body Form Encoded: In this case, the client ID and client secret are included in the body of the request sent to your destination. For an example, see the Supported authentication types section.
    • Basic Authorization: In this case, the client ID and client secret are included in an Authorization header after being base64 encoded and sent to your destination. For an example, see the Supported authentication types section.

Fill in destination details destination-details

To configure details for the destination, fill in the required and optional fields below. An asterisk next to a field in the UI indicates that the field is required.

Image of the UI screen showing completed fields for the HTTP destination details.

  • Name: Enter a name by which you will recognize this destination in the future.
  • Description: Enter a description that will help you identify this destination in the future.
  • Headers: Enter any custom headers that you want to be included in the destination calls, following this format: header1:value1,header2:value2,...headerN:valueN.
  • HTTP Endpoint: The URL of the HTTP endpoint where you want to send the profile data to.
  • Query parameters: Optionally, you can add query parameters to the HTTP endpoint URL. Format the query parameters you use like this: parameter1=value&parameter2=value.
  • Include Segment Names: Toggle if you want the data export to include the names of the audiences you are exporting. For an example of a data export with this option selected, refer to the Exported data section further below.
  • Include Segment Timestamps: Toggle if you want the data export to include the UNIX timestamp when the audiences were created and updated, as well as the UNIX timestamp when the audiences were mapped to the destination for activation. For an example of a data export with this option selected, refer to the Exported data section further below.

Enable alerts enable-alerts

You can enable alerts to receive notifications on the status of the dataflow to your destination. Select an alert from the list to subscribe to receive notifications on the status of your dataflow. For more information on alerts, see the guide on subscribing to destinations alerts using the UI.

When you are finished providing details for your destination connection, select Next.

Activate audiences to this destination activate

IMPORTANT

See Activate audience data to streaming profile export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.

Destination attributes attributes

In the Select attributes step, Adobe recommends that you select a unique identifier from your union schema. Select the unique identifier and any other XDM fields that you want to export to the destination.

Profile export behavior profile-export-behavior

Experience Platform optimizes the profile export behavior to your HTTP API destination, to only export data to your API endpoint when relevant updates to a profile have occurred following audience qualification or other significant events. Profiles are exported to your destination in the following situations:

  • The profile update was determined by a change in audience membership for at least one of the audiences mapped to the destination. For example, the profile has qualified for one of the audiences mapped to the destination or has exited one of the audiences mapped to the destination.
  • The profile update was determined by a change in the identity map. For example, a profile who had already qualified for one of the audiences mapped to the destination has been added a new identity in the identity map attribute.
  • The profile update was determined by a change in attributes for at least one of the attributes mapped to the destination. For example, one of the attributes mapped to the destination in the mapping step is added to a profile.

In all the cases described above, only the profiles where relevant updates have occurred are exported to your destination. For example, if an audience mapped to the destination flow has a hundred members, and five new profiles qualify for the segment, the export to your destination is incremental and only includes the five new profiles.

Note that all the mapped attributes are exported for a profile, no matter where the changes lie. So, in the example above all the mapped attributes for those five new profiles will be exported even if the attributes themselves haven’t changed.

What determines a data export and what is included in the export what-determines-export-what-is-included

Regarding the data that is exported for a given profile, it is important to understand the two different concepts of what determines a data export to your HTTP API destination and which data is included in the export.

What determines a destination export
What is included in the destination export
  • Mapped attributes and audiences serve as the cue for a destination export. This means that if any mapped audiences change states (from null to realized or from realized to exiting) or any mapped attributes are updated, a destination export would be kicked off.
  • Since identities cannot currently be mapped to HTTP API destinations, changes in any identity on a given profile also determine destination exports.
  • A change for an attribute is defined as any update on the attribute, whether or not it is the same value. This means that an overwrite on an attribute is considered a change even if the value itself has not changed.
  • The segmentMembership object includes the audience mapped in the activation dataflow, for which the status of the profile has changed following a qualification or audience exit event. Note that other unmapped audiences for which the profile qualified for can be part of the destination export, if these audiences belong to the same merge policy as the audience mapped in the activation dataflow.
  • All identities in the identityMap object are included as well (Experience Platform currently does not support identity mapping in the HTTP API destination).
  • Only the mapped attributes are included in the destination export.

For example, consider this dataflow to an HTTP destination where three audiences are selected in the dataflow, and four attributes are mapped to the destination.

An example of a HTTP API destination dataflow.

A profile export to the destination can be determined by a profile qualifying for or exiting one of the three mapped segments. However, in the data export, in the segmentMembership object (see Exported Data section below), other unmapped audiences might appear, if that particular profile is a member of them and if these share the same merge policy as the audience that triggered the export. If a profile qualifies for the Customer with DeLorean Cars segment but is also a member of the Watched “Back to the Future” movie and Science fiction fans segments, then these other two audiences will also be present in the segmentMembership object of the data export, even though these are not mapped in the dataflow, if these share the same merge policy with the Customer with DeLorean Cars segment.

From a profile attributes point of view, any changes to the four attributes mapped above will determine a destination export and any of the four mapped attributes present on the profile will be present in the data export.

Historical data backfill historical-data-backfill

When you add a new audience to an existing destination, or when you create a new destination and map audiences to it, Experience Platform exports historical audience qualification data to the destination. Profiles which qualified for the audience before the audience was added to the destination are exported to the destination within approximately one hour.

Exported data exported-data

Your exported Experience Platform data lands in your HTTP destination in JSON format. For example, the export below contains a profile that has qualified for a certain segment, is a member of another two segments, and exited another segment. The export also includes the profile attribute first name, last name, date of birth, and personal email address. The identities for this profile are ECID and email.

{
  "person": {
    "birthDate": "YYYY-MM-DD",
    "name": {
      "firstName": "John",
      "lastName": "Doe"
    }
  },
  "personalEmail": {
    "address": "john.doe@acme.com"
  },
  "segmentMembership": {
   "ups":{
      "7841ba61-23c1-4bb3-a495-00d3g5fe1e93":{
         "lastQualificationTime":"2022-01-11T21:24:39Z",
         "status":"exited"
      },
      "59bd2fkd-3c48-4b18-bf56-4f5c5e6967ae":{
         "lastQualificationTime":"2022-01-02T23:37:33Z",
         "status":"realized"
      },
      "947c1c46-008d-40b0-92ec-3af86eaf41c1":{
         "lastQualificationTime":"2021-08-25T23:37:33Z",
         "status":"realized"
      },
      "5114d758-ce71-43ba-b53e-e2a91d67b67f":{
         "lastQualificationTime":"2022-01-11T23:37:33Z",
         "status":"realized"
      }
   }
},
  "identityMap": {
    "ecid": [
      {
        "id": "14575006536349286404619648085736425115"
      },
      {
        "id": "66478888669296734530114754794777368480"
      }
    ],
    "email_lc_sha256": [
      {
        "id": "655332b5fa2aea4498bf7a290cff017cb4"
      },
      {
        "id": "66baf76ef9de8b42df8903f00e0e3dc0b7"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Below are further examples of exported data, depending on the UI settings you select in the connect destination flow for the Include Segment Names and Include Segment Timestamps options:

The data export sample below includes audience names in the segmentMembership section
code language-json
"segmentMembership": {
        "ups": {
          "5b998cb9-9488-4ec3-8d95-fa8338ced490": {
            "lastQualificationTime": "2019-04-15T02:41:50+0000",
            "status": "realized",
            "createdAt": 1648553325000,
            "updatedAt": 1648553330000,
            "mappingCreatedAt": 1649856570000,
            "mappingUpdatedAt": 1649856570000,
            "name": "First name equals John"
          }
        }
      }
The data export sample below includes audience timestamps in the segmentMembership section
code language-json
"segmentMembership": {
        "ups": {
          "5b998cb9-9488-4ec3-8d95-fa8338ced490": {
            "lastQualificationTime": "2019-04-15T02:41:50+0000",
            "status": "realized",
            "createdAt": 1648553325000,
            "updatedAt": 1648553330000,
            "mappingCreatedAt": 1649856570000,
            "mappingUpdatedAt": 1649856570000,
          }
        }
      }

Limits and retry policy limits-retry-policy

In 95 percent of the time, Experience Platform attempts to offer a throughput latency of less than 10 minutes for successfully sent messages with a rate of less than 10 thousand requests per second for each dataflow to an HTTP destination.

In case of failed requests to your HTTP API destination, Experience Platform stores the failed requests and retries twice to send the requests to your endpoint.

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