Stop a running Campaign

Use the Stop Campaign API to stop an active SEM campaign with the specified Campaign ID. The unique Campaign ID is required to stop the campaign. Stopping a campaign does not delete it but deactivates it, preventing any further advertising spend or activity associated with it.

Throttling

This API endpoint is throttled—if you submit too many feeds too quickly, you might hit Walmart’s rate limits and receive HTTP 429 responses. To learn more about throttling, refer to the Marketplace throttling documentation.

Endpoint

PUT /v3/advertising/sem/campaigns/{campaignId}/stop

Sample request

curl --location --request PUT 'https://marketplace.walmartapis.com/v3/advertising/sem/campaigns/123456789/stop' \
--header 'WM_SVC.NAME: Search Engine Marketing' \
--header 'WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID: 6918922b-0c54-4c80-b21a-b6ba4854582c' \
--header 'WM_SEC.ACCESS_TOKEN: **********'

import requests url = "https://marketplace.walmartapis.com/v3/advertising/sem/campaigns/123456789/stop" headers = { "WM_SVC.NAME": "Search Engine Marketing", "WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID": "6918922b-0c54-4c80-b21a-b6ba4854582c", "WM_SEC.ACCESS_TOKEN": "**********" # Replace with your actual access token
} response = requests.put(url, headers=headers) print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

Modify your code

1. Replace 123456789 in the URL with the actual campaign ID you want to stop.
2. Use your unique WM_QOS.CORRELATION_ID for each request.
3. Use your unique WM_SEC.ACCESS_TOKEN obtained from the Token API.

Sample response

{
"campaignId": "123456789"
}

Result

The specified campaign will be stopped and will no longer be active.