###### The following steps will get you up and running quickly with the Affiliate Marketing API.
#### Step 1: Create Your Account
Before you can begin, you will need to hit the Login button in the navigation use your Walmart.com account. If you don't have one, you can create one right there.
#### Step 2: Create Your Application
You will be asked to enter the details about your application so you can link it to your account for future reference.
#### Step 3: Upload your Public Key
As part of Consumer Capability, we need to upload a public key for your application in the portal. This can be done directly in the dashboard after your application is created or you can follow along with these steps here to create it separately: [key-tutorial](/key-tutorial). After the public key is uploaded, consumer id will be created for your application.
#### Step 4: Run a query
Once you have a consumer-id key, to use the Affiliates API you need to make a call with Additional Headers using any RestApi client.
```
https://developer.api.walmart.com/api-proxy/service/affil/product/v2/taxonomy
```
#### Step 5: Get the results
If everything goes well, you should see a string of JSON formatted text that begins something like this:
```
{
"categories": [
{
"id": "3456",
"name": "Apparel",
"children": [
{
"id": "3453_6785",
"name": "Accessories"
},
]
...
```
Congratulations! You've just used the Affiliate Marketing API to do a lookup on the fastest ship in the galaxy.
Supported Format : json
Read the Additional Headers section to get into advanced features.
For viewing JSON text in the browser, we recommended using a JSON formatter to make the results more readable JSON-formatter