Adding customer match ids to an existing user list (python)

[Stephen Waters]

Hi

I am in the process of migrating to the google ads api from the adwords one.

I've been using the code from https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-python/blob/master/examples/remarketing/add_customer_match_user_list.py as a basis but am struggling to figure out how to update an existing list rather than create a new one & add customers to that.

I am imagining I need the user list resource name to feed into this function:

def _add_users_to_customer_match_user_list(client, customer_id, user_list_resource_name)

and I have been able to find this for my existing user lists using GoogleAdsService search, but when I supply this I get the error

AttributeError: Assignment not allowed to field "user_list" in protocol message object.

which I am not sure how to interpret. Any advice appreciated, cheers

Stephen

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for reaching out. You would need to pass in the resource name rather than a user list id or name. You could first create the resource name of the user list in the form of customers/{customer_id}/userLists/{user_list_id} and then pass it in the def _add_users_to_customer_match_user_list() method.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team
 

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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[Stephen Waters]

Hi Xiaoming

Thanks for replying

I am unfortunately still struggling with this - I believe the resource name is what I was/am passing there?

Additionally when I run the example code from github now (which creates 1x list matching 1x email) I see "Waiting until operation completes..." & then nothing happens indefinitely - is there any way to figure out why?

Thanks

Stephen

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for reaching out. Could you please share the complete request and response logs along with the source code you used via the Reply privately to author option for us to further investigate? If it is disabled, please send the requested information directly to our alias at googleadsa...@google.com.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team