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Conversations API: Retrieve and submit consumer-generated content (CGC), and retrieve your product catalog and statistics about your CGC.

Device Fingerprinting

The Conversations API lets you programmatically retrieve and submit Bazaarvoice Conversations data for use in your applications. To learn more, go to the Conversations API documentation home page.

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This section contains tutorials specific to creating and device fingerprint to Bazaarvoice.

Overview

A device fingerprint is an encoded string containing information about a user agent. The technique for generating a device fingerprint varies based on environment and device reputation partner, but in general will involve the following steps:

  1. Configure and load a device fingerprint library in your app.
  2. Wait for the script to analyze the user agent and create a device fingerprint.
  3. Communicate the device fingerprint to Bazaarvoice or one of our reputation management partners.
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Per the Bazaarvoice Authenticity Policy, you must send a device fingerprint attached to each submission. If you fail to send a device fingerprint with your submission, Bazaarvoice may take any action deemed necessary in Bazaarvoice’s sole discretion to protect the integrity of the network. Such actions may include but are not limited to: rejection of your content, halting syndication of your content on the Bazaarvoice network, revocation of your API key, or revocation of your API license.

Continue reading to learn about ways you can generate and send a device fingerprint to the Bazaarvoice platform.

Section contents

Use the links below or the menu to the left to navigate to the pages in this section.

Device Fingerprinting with iovation for Mobile

How to create and submit device fingerprint information in a mobile app using iovation. Consumer data gathered with this solution will be stored in the United States.

 Device Fingerprinting with iovation for Web

How to create and submit device fingerprint information in a web page using iovation. Consumer data gathered with this solution will be stored in the United States.

Related resources

Refer to these resources for additional information related to device fingerprinting.

Authenticity

What it means for content to be authentic and what can be done to increase the likelihood that applications conform the Bazaarvoice Authenticity policy.

 InAuth - Device Fingerprinting

Existing implementations only. Developers implementing device fingerprinting for the first time should use iovation.