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# POST /campaigns/{id}/archive: Archive a campaign | distribution.tech
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# Archive a campaign

POST /campaigns/{id}/archive

Take one campaign out of the list, the same as Archive in the workspace.

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## Overview

Take one campaign out of the list, the same as Archive in the workspace. Refused while a payment is in progress or any of its work is paid or booked (conflict, has\_committed\_work). Archiving an archived campaign returns when it was archived. An archived campaign still reads in campaign\_status with archived\_at set and stage Archived; renaming it or setting its guidelines is refused. Needs an idempotency\_key. Scope: campaigns:write. MCP tool: archive\_campaign.

Endpoint

`POST https://app.distribution.tech/api/v1/campaigns/{id}/archive`

Scope

`campaigns:write`

Changes data

Yes, send an Idempotency-Key header

MCP tool

[archive\_campaign](https://distribution.tech/docs/mcp/tools/archive-campaign)

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | path | string (uuid) | Yes |  |
| `Idempotency-Key` | header | string | Yes | 8 to 128 letters, digits or . \_ : -. Retry with the same key and the same request to get the same answer; it never runs twice. |

## Request with curl

Set `DISTRIBUTION_API_KEY` to a key from Developers with the `campaigns:write` scope, and each path variable to an id from an earlier answer. The body carries the required fields.

curl

```
curl -X POST "https://app.distribution.tech/api/v1/campaigns/$CAMPAIGN_ID/archive" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISTRIBUTION_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)"
```

## Response

`200` OK. The body has these fields:

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `campaign_id` | string (uuid) | Yes |  |
| `archived_at` | string (date-time) | Yes |  |

200 response body, every field with its type

```
{
  "campaign_id": "<uuid>",
  "archived_at": "<date-time>"
}
```

## Errors

| Status | When |
| --- | --- |
| `400` | A parameter is not valid: details.problems names each field and what it accepts. |
| `401` | No API key, an unknown one, or a revoked one. |
| `403` | The key lacks the scope, or the mandate refuses (mandate\_refused, with the limit and how much over). |
| `404` | No plan, line or creator of yours has that id. |
| `409` | conflict (with a reason), idempotency\_conflict, or in\_progress (Retry-After). |
| `422` | unprocessable: the body is readable but a value cannot be used (a blank or too long name, a campaign that cannot be planned yet); details.problems names each field when there are several. |
| `429` | Too many requests for this key in the current minute (60); Retry-After and RateLimit-Reset say when to try again. On POST /campaigns and on POST /plans/current/lines when it starts a plan: the brand's 3 new campaigns in 24 hours are used (details.reason daily\_campaign\_limit); details.resets\_at and Retry-After say when the limit reopens, a rolling 24 hours from the first of them, not a calendar day; archiving or deleting a campaign does not give its slot back. On GET /creators and GET /creators/{id}: a creator read limit is used (details.reason per\_minute, daily\_lists, daily\_reveals, daily\_seen or locked). daily\_seen is your workspace's one pool of 300 creator views a day (300 different creators shown or opened since midnight UTC), shared by the app and every API key of the brand: details.scope workspace and details.limit 300; a creator already seen today, in the app or through any key, still opens and costs nothing. The other reasons are this key's own limit (details.scope key) or the brand's ceiling over all its keys (details.scope api). |
| `500` | internal: the request failed on our side. Retry it with the same Idempotency-Key. |
| `503` | unavailable: writes are not available right now (for an approval: payments are not open yet). |

## Related endpoints

-   [`GET /campaigns`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/get-campaigns): Your campaigns and where each stands
-   [`POST /campaigns`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/post-campaigns): Start a campaign
-   [`GET /campaigns/{id}`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/get-campaigns-id): Where one campaign stands
-   [`PATCH /campaigns/{id}`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/patch-campaigns-id): Rename a campaign
-   [`DELETE /campaigns/{id}`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/delete-campaigns-id): Delete a draft campaign
-   [`POST /campaigns/{id}/creator-guidelines`](https://distribution.tech/docs/api/post-campaigns-id-creator-guidelines): Set the creator guidelines

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-   [Parameters](#parameters)
-   [Request with curl](#curl)
-   [Response](#response)
-   [Errors](#errors)
-   [Related endpoints](#related)
-   [Get access](#access)

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