---
title: "Inventory Auction Type Targeting"
slug: "inventory-auction-type-targeting"
updated: 2025-11-19T16:33:22Z
published: 2025-11-19T16:33:22Z
canonical: "help.yahooinc.com/inventory-auction-type-targeting"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Inventory Auction Type Targeting

Use Inventory Auction Type targeting to configure whether a line participates in **First Price** or **Second Price** auctions. Explicitly target either auction type or set the option to `ALL`, which represents no specific targeting applied.

## Endpoint

```plaintext
/traffic/lines/{id}/targeting
```

Use the following HTTP methods:

- Use the `GET` method to view line targeting.
- Use the `POST` method to edit line targeting.

### Parameters

| Parameters | Parameter Type | Description | Data Type | Required/Optional |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | query | Specifies the line ID. | `integer` | Required |
| `auctionType` | body | Specifies the auction type. Allowed values: - `FIRST_PRICE` - `SECOND_PRICE` - `ALL` | `String` | Required |
| `types` | body | Specifies an array of targeting types to update, enable or disable. `AUCTION_TYPE `must be included to apply changes. | `String` | Required |

## Add/Update Inventory Auction Type

Add or update Inventory Auction Type for the specified line.

```plaintext
POST  traffic/lines/{id}/targeting/
```

### Sample Request URL

```plaintext
POST https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/lines/{id}/targeting
```

### Sample Request Body

```json
{
  "auctionType": "FIRST_PRICE",
  "types": [
    {
      "name": "AUCTION_TYPE",
      "isTargeted": true
    }
  ]
}
```

### Sample Response

```json
{
     ...
    "auctionType": "FIRST_PRICE",
    "types": [
      {
        "name": "AUCTION_TYPE",
        "isTargeted": true
     }
        ],
      ...
    },
    "errors": null,
    "timeStamp": "2025-11-14T17:47:09.077Z"
}
```

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> - When `isTargeted` is set to `false`, the auction type configuration is not applied regardless of the auctionType value passed in the request.
> - When `"auctionType": "ALL"`, the DSP treats this as no specific auction targeting and the line returns `"isTargeted": false`.
> - This feature applies only at the line level within the Traffic API.

## Read Inventory Auction Type

Retrieve the current inventory auction Type for a specified line.

```plaintext
GET /traffic/lines/{id}/targeting/
```

### Parameters

| Parameters | Parameter Type | Description | Data Type | Required/Optional |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | query | Specifies the line ID. | `integer` | Required |

### Sample Request URL (Line-Level)

```plaintext
GET https://dspapi.admanagerplus.yahoo.com/traffic/lines/{id}/targeting/
```

### Sample Response (Line-Level)

```json
{
     ...
    "auctionType": "FIRST_PRICE",
    "types": [
      {
        "name": "AUCTION_TYPE",
        "isTargeted": true
     }
        ],
      ...
    },
    "errors": null,
    "timeStamp": "2025-11-14T17:47:09.077Z"
}
```

### Sample Response (Line-Level)

```json
{
  "isTargeted": false,
  "name": "AUCTION_TYPE"
}
```