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Method: promotions.create
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Inserts a promotion for your Merchant Center account. If the promotion already exists, then it updates the promotion instead. To end or delete a promotion update the time period of the promotion to a time that has already passed.
HTTP request
POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/promotions
Path parameters
| Parameters |
merchantId |
string (int64 format)
Required. The ID of the account that contains the collection.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Promotion.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Promotion.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
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Last updated 2025-02-25 UTC.
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