Re: Encountered errror when calling CampaignCriterionService: RateExceededError

Hi Caihua, Decomposing the error message that you have shared, it looks like the RateLimitExceeded error is with the Account rate scope. As you would have read in the document , this could be beca

Re: Encountered errror when calling CampaignCriterionService: RateExceededError

Hi Caihua, As you have noticed, the limit that is being exceeded in your case is ' RequestsPerMinute'. Given that the limits enforced are based on various factors and could fluctuate, it is hard to comment about the number. But since you are hitting the error, the best way to go would be eithe

Re: How to logout after obtaining refresh token for adwords api ?

Hi, AdWords API calls are authorized through OAuth2 and that said, OAuth2 enables the API client application to access the AdWords account without having to manage the user's login info. There is no need to logout as by re

Re: API in Account budgets

Hi, Unfortunately, the '% spent' is not exposed via API. As a workaround, you could try to use the AccountPerformance report and extract the cost

Re: How to resolve manager accounts throwing the USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error

Hi, The error AuthenticationError.USER_PERMISSION_DENIED occurs when there is no link between the manager account that you are authenticating as and the client account that you are trying

Re: CURL HTTP POST returns 400 no matter what (report download)

Hi, Have you checked our samples in PHP for reporting? You could refer to these and follow the same for the specific report that you would like to run from the PHP library. Please explore the Keyw

Re: MOBILE APPLICATION list

Hi Ali, You could use the Criteria Performance Report with a filter on the CriteriaType as

Re: Impressions from AdWords API does not match Google Adwords Web

Hi Amanda, Could you please use the "Reply privately to author" option and share the below details with me: 1. Report definition 2. API Report 3. UI Report Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https

Re: CURL HTTP POST returns 400 no matter what (report download)

Hi, The document where the reports are categorized based on the fields might be helpful in your case. All reports provide data aggregated at different level and you can choose them based on your requirement. In you

Re: Impressions from AdWords API does not match Google Adwords Web

Hi Amanda, I see that the report run from the API is not exactly the same as that extracted from the UI. The sum of impressions while using the ClickType field will not be accurate. Some impressio

Re: How can I get vertical based on the list of keywords/text?

Hi Pavel, Please check out the sample (JAVA). As you can see, this sample code gives you the keyword and the associated category by using the

Re: How can I get vertical based on the list of keywords/text?

Hi Pavel, Could you please try by setting the RequestType set to STATS? This should get you the specific keyword. Setting it to IDEAS will get you the related keywords. Thanks, Sreelaks

Re: How can I get vertical based on the list of keywords/text?

Hi Pavel, Unfortunately, what you are trying to achieve might not be possible for Url and text as the SearchParameter with desired IdeaType is not supported by the API. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and

Re: CURL HTTP POST returns 400 no matter what (report download)

Hi, I am linking the documents that will help you understand what a display network is and how to get your Ads on the display network . If you have any specific

Re: Significant lower number of impressions pulled from Google API

Hi Neta, Please take a look at our article on determining the freshness of your data . This talks about when data returned by reports may be updated/finalized. You could also check out the document about the data discrepancy

Re: How to resolve manager accounts throwing the USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error

Hi Chris, The CUSTOMER_NOT_FOUND error means either the customer Id being passed is incorrect or the account was just created by the ManagedCustomerService. It will take a few minutes before

Re: AdWords API permission read-only

Hi Imanuel, For having the read only access via the API, the user will first have to be created as a read-only user in the AdWords account and then the OAuth credentials will have to be generated for that user/email which should be used for API calls. Please check out our documentation

Re: How to resolve manager accounts throwing the USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error

Hi Prajakt, To check if the manager and client account is linked, please log onto your Manager account, click the Accounts label and check if the client account is listed. If not listed, that could be reason of the error. If you are not sure about the OAuth credentials, you could regenerate the

Re: Recently added labels not showing up via Reporting API

Hi, Are you able to see those labels from the AdWords UI (labels drop down menu above your statistics tables on the Keyword, Campaign, Ad groups, and Ads tabs)? If so, please share the report definition and the copy of the generated report so that I can check that at my end. Please use 'Reply

Re: How to resolve manager accounts throwing the USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error

Hi, For a client account, using the OAuth credentials and refresh token which was generated while logged into the email/user login corresponding to the client account and using the customer id of that account will work. If the credentials of an MCC account is being used, it should still work i

Re: How to set bid of ecommerce products

Hi Sachin, You can set bids at the product Id level by creating BiddableAdGroupCriterion objects as specified below: 1. criterion

Re: decrease observed for adgroup impression stats (over 15 min. interval)

Hi Evan, The performance data is not available instantly and there could be data discrepancy if the data is pulled before stats are calculated. It is recommended to rerun the reports later to pick up any adjustments if the reports are being run for the current day or the previous day. Please

Re: Creating AdWords rich media display ads

Hi, Please checkout our samples for SOAP log and the code (

Re: Demographics bid modifiers

Hi Anil, Please check here to see the types of targeting available and the configurations supported for targeting Gender. You could also check our sample

Re: Creating AdWords rich media display ads

Hi Jana, If you are looking for the HTML5 Ads requirements please check this document . The HTML5 Media Bundle could have the HTML5 assets which c

Re: AuthorizationError.USER_PERMISSION_DENIED

Hi, The USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error occurs if the client account is not linked to the manager account or, in a different scenario where the OAuth credentials do not match the client cus

Re: Selector fields for both TextAd, ExpandedTextAd

Hi Andy, Yes, you can have both TextAd and ExpandedTextAd in an Adgroup. In the selector you could add '.in(AdGroupAdField.AdType,"TEXT_AD","EXPANDED_TEXT_AD")'. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 2:36:31 PM UTC-5, Andy Lin wrote: > > Can we have both TextAd a

Re: How to resolve manager accounts throwing the USER_PERMISSION_DENIED error

Hi Chris, Could you please '*Reply privately to author*' and provide me the Customer ID for which USER_PERMISSION_DENIED occurs and the email Id of the account that is being used to generate the OAuth credentials? I am suspecting that the user is not logged into the right account while clickin

Re: AuthorizationError.USER_PERMISSION_DENIED

Hi Minas, To make successful API calls, the login used to create the client credentials must match the login with which you generate the OAuth tokens. If your question is about how multiple users can access your Adwords accocunt, please check this

Re: v201609 MapUtils not found error

Hi, Looks like your code is missing the required dependencies. Please check our sample in PHP for this service. Also, could you confirm if you are using our client libraries

Re: Why are trial campaigns not returned with predicate CampaignStatus == ENABLED?

Hi, Could you please share the report definitions and a copy of the report for each case? Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+Goog

Re: using data in ad customisers and referencing in landing page

Hi Gavin, Unfortunately, we cannot pass the ad customiser data as parameters to landing page Url. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~

Re: Why are trial campaigns not returned with predicate CampaignStatus == ENABLED?

Hi Markus, Glad to know that it is working well now. Feel free to post if you see the issue again. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.

Re: Applying audiences at a campaign level

Hi Sam, Please check our guide on Remarketing and Audience targeting . You could target the user lists at both levels. However the positive (biddable) user lists can only be set at one level at a given time. To set them at the

Re: Audience Performance Report: clickType value is empty string

Hi Eric, We are aware of this problem and our team is currently looking into it. I will provide more updates as we have them. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 12:32:04 PM UTC-5, Eric B wrote: > > *Report:* AUDIENCE_PERFORMANCE_REPORT > reference: > > https

Re: CANNOT_OPERATE_ON_DELETED_ADGROUPAD

Hi, It looks like you are attempting to update the removed ads. My suggestion is to use the AdGroupAdService.get() service and get the Ad Id's that have 'DISABLED' status. Then exclude these Ads in your u

Re: Applying audiences at a campaign level

Hi Sam, If you want to target the ads in a campaign to a user list, you need to use the CampaignCriterionService and then apply the CriterionUserList at the campaign level. The criterion will be appli

Re: ManagedCustomerService.get - UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR

Hi, The ManagedCustomerService.get() seems to work fine for me. Could you please retry once again and confirm if this issue persists? If it does, please '*Reply privately to author*' and include the customer Id in which you get this error. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=

Re: Video campaigns: how to distinguish In Stream results from Video Discovery results?

Hi Currently we cannot differentiate the in stream and video discovery ad formats via the API. Usage of AdNetworkType1/AdNetworkType2 might not help in this case as well. I recommend to keep an eye on our blog

Re: Doubt about CampaignStatus field in Campaign Performance Report

Hi, In reporting, the attributes would always reflect the current status irrespective of the time span. If you wish to capture the history, the best way to do that would be to run the reports at regular interv

Re: OAuthException exception

Hi Michael, Could you please make sure that while you tried to generate the refresh token, you were logged onto the same account that was used to generate your OAuth credentials? If not, could you please try again. This time making sure that the logged in account is correct. Thanks, Sreelaks

Re: Doubt about CampaignStatus field in Campaign Performance Report

Hi Pippo, Although it is not possible to get the historical data via reporting, you could use CustomerSyncService.CampaignChangeData to get the campaign change history. Please check our s

Re: Callout extensions: Ad group extension and Ad group extension

Hi, Yes, you should be able to create 'CALLOUT' extension at AdGroup level. We dont have a sample for this specific case, but you could refer to this

Re: Doubt about CampaignStatus field in Campaign Performance Report

Hi Pippo, Unfortunately, the CustomerSyncService is the closest API service that we have in comparison to the change history on the UI. If the change status is new, you could use the specific service to ge

Re: ad customizer with IF functions not working

Hi, The changes related to customizing the ads with IF functions will be rolled out over the next few months. However, you can verify if this feature is enabled in your account. While editing any one of your ads, type in a "{". If you see a drop down with the 'IF Function' in it would means th

Re: GenerateRefreshToken.php command line error

Hi Chris, Using composer to download the latest version of the client libraries as mentioned in step 1 of the setup document will ensure that all the required dependencies are in place. Directly downloading them might fail to configure these d

Re: ad customizer with IF functions not working

Hi Martin, This roll out will spread across the next few months. Unfortunately, the only way to check if your account is enabled for IF functions would be as described in the blog. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on

Re: HTTPError: Internal Server Error when accessing Google Adword API (Python)

Hi Peng, The internal server errors are usually transient in nature. If this persists, could you please use the *reply privately to author *option and share with me a sample SOAP request along with response logs when you are getting this error so that I can take a closer look? If you don't hav

Re: How to get phone call count and Form count seperately in Reports

Hi Joseph, If you have set up conversion tracking, you could use the conversion related fields to segment data based on the conversion action. Here are the some commonly used conversion fields available in reporting

Re: GCLID Date on GOOGLE CLICK REPORT

Hi Shay, The report that you segment by time will generate the results according to the time zone setting of your account. However it is not likely that the click which occurred at the end of the day will get pushed to the next day or l

Re: Question on ads API

Hi, Unfortunately, the API does not have any service that provides this information. As a workaround, you could check the change history from the AdWords UI and differentiate them by using the appropriate filter. You could also add a l

Re: Are there any new In-market categories ?

Hi, The category corresponding to Id 80598 is 'Sports Tickets' and that of 80599 is 'American Football Tickets'. You could use the ConstantDataService. getuserinterestcriterion()

Re: how to tag clicks and get detailed click reports based on these tags

Hi, You could get the targeting type implemented as the Carrier criteria mobile carriers using the ConstantDataService

Re: Report linked accounts

Hi, You can get the linked Google Merchant Center account using the CustomerService.getServiceLinks . But the API does not have a service which lists all the accounts that are linked with the Ad

Re: how to tag clicks and get detailed click reports based on these tags

Hi, Yes, the carrier criteria is only applicable for Display ads. To answer your second question, criteria needs to be applied at the specific level. If you are looking to pull data using the criteria performance report on child accounts, you will need to apply the criteria at the same level.

Re: how to tag clicks and get detailed click reports based on these tags

Hi, You could implement the conversion tracking with required conversion tags and then track these conversions from the Ad impressions. Please check our guide on conversion tracking for reference. To extract the data

Re: Change History

Hi Daniel, Yes, CustomerSyncService is the closest service that we have for getting the change history. You will be able to get the changes made to the account, campaign, etc for the given date range as lon

Re: Can I do Legal Services ppc

Hi Anamika, Are you looking for assistance in setting up the AdWords account? If so, you could refer to our guide on getting started and the guide on sign up process s

Re: HTTPError: Internal Server Error when accessing Google Adword API (Python)

Hi Markus, Could you confirm that your SOAP request has the 'clientCustomerId' populated? The client customer Id is mandatory and any request missing this field will fail. If that is missing, you could either update the client customer Id in your googleads.yaml

Re: how to tag clicks and get detailed click reports based on these tags

Hi, Unfortunately, there might not be an easy way to do this. I strongly recommend that you post this question in the Advertisers community forum to check if there are any better options. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, A

Re: Audience Performance Report: clickType value is empty string

Hi, This issue is actively being worked on but I don't have an update on when the fix will be available. I will update this thread once there is progress. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: http

Re: Creating campaign location targeting

Hi, It is possible to use the address in the proximity criterion. Please check our documentation about the Location targeting for better clarity. For a given proximity

Re: Change History

Hi Daniel, You will be able to get all the disapproved ads by using AdGroupAdService . Please check our sample

Re: Adwords Competitive Repoet

Hi, The Auction insights report is not available from the API. However, many of the metrics from that UI view are available in various reports. Some of them are: - SearchImpressionShare

Re: ad customizer with IF functions not working

Hi Mark, You could check this document for more information on the usage since this includes examples as well. You will need to use the name of the user list within the IN condition and also remove the extra comma in the condition. Let me kn

Re: access token

Hi, I see that you are using the Google My Business API. This forum is exclusively for questions related to the AdWords API. You could try posting your question on the Google My Business API support forum. Than

Re: Same API Contact Email for Different MCCs

Hi Camila, Yes, it is possible to have the same 'API contact email' on three different MCC accounts. However you cannot add multiple email Id(s) as API contact(s) on any given MCC account. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also fin

Re: Same API Contact Email for Different MCCs

Hi Camila, Yes, the same user should be able to manage the three MCC's via the API. You could use the developer token from any one of the MCC's to make calls against all your accounts. For your last question, the API contact email will be used to send any communication regarding the AdWord

Re: INVALID_OPERAND_TYPE in PlacesOfInterestOperand

Hi, The PlacesOfInterestOperand was deprecated and removed in the API version v201607. Please check the release notes

Re: Do you provide API for marketing objectives?

Hello, The Campaigns created through the API are equivalent to 'All features' campaign. That being said, to implement the Marking objectives via the API, you will need to add the corresponding campaign criterions

Re: Is it possible to get all the campaign data as a single response (JSON/XML) in adwords api?

Hi, By design In AdWords API, the get() methods does not return all the fields of an object by default. You will need to set the required fields in the selector which is passed in as the input to the get() methods. Please check this

Re: API Access to Billing Transaction History reports

Hello, The billing transaction history is still not available via the API. If you haven't already, you could follow our blog for updates and announcements about the API. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

Re: Dealing with Misspellings and High Search Volume from TargetingIdeaService

Hi, By design, the TargetingIdeaService would correct any misspellings in the keyword and the results that you see would correspond to the keyword with the right spelling. This is considered as the expected behavior of the TargetingIdeaService. You could check here

Re: Python - Patched googleads suds package causes UnicodeDecodeError when trying to add non-ascii keyword criteria to Ad Group

Hi Nitzan, There seems to be an issue in how unicode is handled in Python 2. To workaround this issue, you could send unicode content as a unicode string. As an alternate option, you can change your default encoding as seen in PEP 0263 and use those

Re: Python - Patched googleads suds package causes UnicodeDecodeError when trying to add non-ascii keyword criteria to Ad Group

Hi Nitzan, Unfortunately, I don't have any other workaround for this issue. You might need to follow the issue raised on the Python library. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsde

Re: [AdGroupCriterionError.CANNOT_TARGET_AND_EXCLUDE @ operations[0].operand]

Hi, As pointed out in the earlier post, conflicting criterion setting is causing this error. You could try the AdGroupCriterionService.get() on that AdGroup and check for the criterionUse

Re: ConversionTypeOwnerCustomerId Showing MCC Account

Hi, The conversionTypeOwnerCustomerId should have the account Id under which the conversion tracking was set up. If the conversion was set up at the MCC account level you should see t

Re: can i use any product account developer token for my test account

Hi Subin, Once the initial signup for the AdWords API is completed, you will be issued a developer token with the test account access level. This means that the developer token can only make AdWords API requests against test accou

Re: ClickAssistedConversions at device level

Hi Alex, Unfortunately, the ClickAssistedConversions field is not compatible with Device in all the rep

Re: 2017 AdWords API Workshop?

Hi Christopher, Right now, we do not have much information regarding the AdWords API workshop schedule for 2017. Once the schedule is available, we will be posting that on our Ads Developer blog. You could keep an eye

Re: invalid_grant error suddenly happening after 18 months of stable server side code

Hi, The 'invalid_grant' error usually occurs when the authorization code or the refresh token is not valid (is expired, revoked, issued to another client etc). To fix this, you will need to generate the refresh token again. If you need instructions to generate a new one, please check our guide

Re: Where can we see the amount of operations done

Hi Nick, There is currently no service in AdWords API that lets you check how many operations you have made. You could keep track of your operations and calculate the number following the guidelines listed in this docum

Re: "Responsive ad" adType value on AdPerformanceReport?

Hi David, The possible values for the AdType field are as listed in the documentation that is linked. Could you please *reply privately to author *and share with me the report definition, a copy of

Re: Adding Sitelink to an extension erase previous content

Hi Ferdinando, Glad that you found the solution. The usage of ADD operator when an ad extension already exists, will modify the existing ad extension as well. To prevent the new operation from overwriting the old settings, you will need to send back all feed items, even if you're modifying ju

Re: Auction Insights Report

Hi Adam, Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, we don't have a definite time line on when it will be available. I will let the team know about your request. In the meantime, you could consider using the fields that were mentioned in an earlier response if those are the specific metrics tha

Re: Auction Insights Report

Hi Adam, l'll pass along your request to the team, but unfortunately I can't say at this point if or when this will be added to the API. Please keep an eye on our Ads Developer blog for updates. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~

Re: Product partition tree corrupted

Hi Dongliang, To take a closer look at your corrupted product partition tree, could you please share your client customer Id along with the names of adGroup1, adGroup2 and the nodes that you were referring to? About your question of linking nodes under adGroup2 to the root in adGroup1, it wil

Re: Not getting all Keywords in KeywordPerfomanceReport.

Hi, It looks like both the AWQLs are the same. Are you trying to say that removing the 'Date' field and by maintaining the "DURING" would generate results as given below? 1. "SELECT Id, CampaignId, CampaignStatus, QualityScore, Date FROM KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT WHERE IsNegative = false DU

Re: Not getting all Keywords in KeywordPerfomanceReport.

Hi, Could you please *Reply privately to author* and share with me your client customer Id along with the downloaded reports in both the cases? Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googlead

Re: Correlating a call extension call with the generated GCLID

Hi Chris, Yes, the call extension click also will generate a GCLID. You can extract the stats for the GCLID by using the CLICK_PERFORMANCE report. You will need to look for the corresponding rows where

Re: SearchImpressionShare actual value instead of "< 10%"

Hi, The API does return the special value "<10%" or ">90%" when the actual value is less than or above the threshold for Impression share related metrics. Unfortunately, there is no workaround to get the actual percentage via API in those cases. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- --

Re: CANNOT_ADD_EXISTING_FIELD and criterion.id

Hi Mike As you have observed, you will need to use the SET operator instead of ADD while updating the bidModifier. Have you checked out the sample to set the bidModifier? To

Re: SearchImpressionShare actual value instead of "< 10%"

Hi, If you are interested in extracting the totals, you can set the ' skipReportSummary ' attribute in the request header to false and the last row in your report should correspond to the totals. Please note th

Re: Age Range Performance Report - for search network?

Hi Marina, We are in the process of making demographic targeting available for search campaigns. It will be possible to get the stats for search networks once this change is complete. You can try it out on your account and see if it is available for your account yet. Please check this

Re: Correlating a call extension call with the generated GCLID

Hi Chris, Unfortunately, it is not possible to map a GCLID to the corresponding call. With Click Performance Report , you will be able to map the GCLID to it's Ad

Re: SearchImpressionShare actual value instead of "< 10%"

Hi Alex, If you are not looking for totals in your report, you don't need to worry about setting 'skipReportSummary' attribute. To address your question about not getting the totals, you should be able to see the totals in your report unless the 'skipReportSummary

Re: How to get information of only changed campaign from change history using CustomerSyncService?

Hi Eshwar, The CustomerSyncService will return all the campaigns irrespective of whether it was changed or no

Re: XML log

Hi Subin, Could you please let me know the programming language that you are using? Also, please confirm if you are using one of our client libraries . Steps to enable logging would be specific to the language that you are using.

Re: Shopping Performance Report returns same product twice

Hi, To take a closer look at your issue, could you please *Reply privately to author* and share your report definition, a copy of the SHOPPING_PERFORMANCE_REPORT and you client customer Id? Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also fin

Re: originAdId automatically populated when uploading HTML5 creatives

Hi Dorian, Could you please share sample SOAP logs (request/ and response) of both the operations ? You may use '*Reply privately to author*' to reply just to me. Thanks, Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Goo

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