Downloading > 100.000 adgroups

[David Antunes]

Hi,

I have a client who, I believe, has more than 100.000 adgroups in a campaign.

How can I download them using the api? (there's a pagination limit of 100.000, right?)

Thanks!

David

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi David,

For the limits regarding paging, you may refer to this guide. As stated also in the guide, you may opt to use the reports instead since most fields are also supported in the report. To retrieve ad groups associated to a specific campaign and their statistics, you may generate the Adgroup Performance Report and use the CampaignId and CampaignName fields as filters.

You may also refer to our reporting guide and these sample report codes. Let me know if this helps.

Best regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team

[Dorian Kind]

The maximum number of ad groups per campaign is 20'000 (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6372658). So as long as you download them per campaign, you shouldn't have a problem with pagination.

Cheers,

Dorian

[David Antunes]

Hi,

Thanks for the answers.

I suspect this client was probably allowed to have more than 100.000 by a Google representative(maybe?)

If someone has this problem in the future here's an idea:

 - I really needed to download them through the API (it would take huge changes to the code otherwise)
 - You can just use the reports to get the ids, and then download through the API 10.000 at a time (the API's limit for the "IN" operator)

Kind regards,

David