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CAKE Admin API

Updated on

Jan 13, 2026

Note: This article covers GetCake Admin API source setup process. You can learn how to extract data from Affiliate API here.

Description

GetCake enables advertisers, networks, and publishers to manage, measure, and optimize performance marketing in real-time.

Setup guide

Follow our setup guide to connect GetCake Admin API to Improvado.

Step 1. Click the Make a new Connection on the Connections page.
Categories on the Data sources page group all available platforms. Use a search to find the required one.

Step 2. Click on the Cake Admin API tile.

Step 3. To authorize your account, you need to fill in the required fields below following steps 3.1 - 3.4:

  • Domain
  • Admin API Key

Note: If your domain is not a subdomain of ```*.getcake.com```, please contact our support team. We will check your domain and add it to the whitelist.

Step 3.1. Log into your CAKE Admin Portal.

Step 3.2. Navigate to Admin → Security Settings → System Access.

Step 3.3. Click on the Show button to see your Admin API Key, then copy it.

Step 3.4. Enter copied values into the Improvado authorization form.

Also, you can find the additional information here: How to Configure Security Settings and System Access Control : CAKE.

{%docs-informer info title="Important"%} Admin API Key has broader permissions than Affiliate API Key. Treat it like a password. {%docs-informer-end%}

Step 4. After completing the connection process, the CAKE Admin API connection will appear in your Connected sources list.

Step 5. When the connection status is Active and the account status column shows a number of accounts, you can move on to data extraction.

Step 6. To extract data from the connected sources, check the instructions on how to set up data extraction.

Schema information

The schema information shows all report types you can use to extract data from GetCake.

Settings

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting guides

Check out troubleshooting guides for
CAKE Admin API
here:

Limits

You can find information about the latest API changes in the official Release notes.

Frequently asked questions

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Questions?

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Contact your Customer Success Manager or raise a request in Improvado Service Desk.