# Get a campaign's activation

`GET https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/{campaignId}/activation`

Reads the activation flow for one campaign: whether it is published, whether creators are enrolled by the team or automatically, the titles of its steps, and where each creator has got to. The creators are a page at a time. A token without the creators:read scope gets the flow without them, and creatorsOmitted says so.

- Scope: `campaigns:read`
- Kind: read
- MCP tool: `scouty_get_activation`

## Authorization

Send `Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTY_TOKEN`. The token needs the `campaigns:read` scope.

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `campaignId` | `integer` | Required | The campaign whose activation to read. |

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `cursor` | `string` | Optional | The nextCursor from the previous page of creators. |
| `limit` | `integer` | Optional | Creators per page, 1 to 100. 50 by default. |

## Pagination

This list comes a page at a time, in `creators`. Send `limit` (1 to 100, 50 by default) and pass the answer's `nextCursor` back as `cursor`. `nextCursor` is `null` on the last page.

## Request

### cURL

```bash
curl -s "https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42/activation?limit=50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SCOUTY_TOKEN"
```

### JavaScript

```js
const response = await fetch("https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42/activation?limit=50", {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SCOUTY_TOKEN}`,
  },
});
console.log(await response.json());
```

### Python

```python
import os

import requests

token = os.environ["SCOUTY_TOKEN"]
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.tryscouty.com/v1/campaigns/42/activation",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
    params={"limit": 50},
)
print(response.json())
```

## Responses

### 200 OK

```json
{
  "campaignId": 42,
  "flow": {
    "status": "published",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-16T10:00:00.000Z",
    "publishedVersion": 2,
    "unpublishedChanges": false,
    "joinCode": "JOIN ACME#42",
    "hostedLink": "https://tryscouty.com/a/42-example",
    "deadlineDays": 7,
    "steps": [
      {
        "position": 1,
        "title": "Join the Discord server"
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "title": "Post your first video"
      }
    ]
  },
  "mode": "manual",
  "creators": [
    {
      "memberId": 7,
      "name": "Sample Creator",
      "activation": {
        "state": "active",
        "stepTitle": "Join the Discord server",
        "timeLeft": "3 days left"
      },
      "discordHandle": "creator_handle"
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": null
}
```

### 400 Bad Request

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Those arguments are not the shape this capability takes: cursor."
  }
}
```

### 401 Unauthorized

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "missing_token",
    "message": "This API needs an Authorization header carrying a bearer token."
  }
}
```

### 403 Forbidden

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "insufficient_scope",
    "message": "This token does not carry the campaigns:read scope. Ask the team for one that does."
  }
}
```

### 404 Not Found

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "No such campaign."
  }
}
```

### 429 Too Many Requests

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "Too many requests. Please wait for the current minute to end."
  }
}
```

## Errors

| Status | `error.code` | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 400 Bad Request | `invalid_request` | The request was not the shape this capability takes, or its body was not JSON. |
| 401 Unauthorized | `missing_token`, `invalid_token`, `token_revoked`, `token_expired`, `token_orphaned` | No token, or one that is not recognized, revoked or expired. |
| 403 Forbidden | `insufficient_scope`, `wrong_principal` | The token does not carry the scope this capability needs. |
| 404 Not Found | `not_found` | No such route, or no such campaign for this client. |
| 429 Too Many Requests | `rate_limited` | Too many requests this minute. Retry-After says how long is left. |

Full reference: https://docs.tryscouty.com/reference