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".
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