Method: accounts.claimwebsite

  • Claims a website for a Merchant Center sub-account, unless it's managed by an approved third-party CSS.

  • Requires a POST request to the specified endpoint with merchantId and accountId as path parameters.

  • Optionally, uses the overwrite query parameter to replace existing website claims.

  • An empty request body is necessary for this operation.

  • Upon successful execution, the response includes a confirmation with the kind "content#accountsClaimWebsiteResponse".

Claims the website of a Merchant Center sub-account. Merchant accounts with approved third-party CSSs aren't required to claim a website.

HTTP request

POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/accounts/{accountId}/claimwebsite

Path parameters

Parameters
merchantId

string

The ID of the managing account. If this parameter is not the same as accountId, then this account must be a multi-client account and accountId must be the ID of a sub-account of this account.
accountId

string

The ID of the account whose website is claimed.

Query parameters

Parameters
overwrite

boolean

Only available to selected merchants, for example multi-client accounts (MCAs) and their sub-accounts. When set to True, this option removes any existing claim on the requested website and replaces it with a claim from the account that makes the request.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "kind": string
}
Fields
kind

string

Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "content#accountsClaimWebsiteResponse".

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.