Adgroup limits for Shopping campaigns with Batch Processing

[Rucha Kanade]

Hello,

I am exploring the possibility of moving my team's system to the Batch Processing API. We have several hundred campaigns, each with hundreds of adgroups. It looks like the adgroup constraints on Shopping campaigns are present in the Batch processing API as well:
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/limits#ad-group

If I try to modify more than 2 adgroups in a single batch job, I see AdGroupCriterionError.OPERATIONS_FOR_TOO_MANY_SHOPPING_ADGROUPS

Is there a way to bypass this constraint? It is not possible to batch together many operations with this constraint, and we will have to create many batch jobs per account.


Also, I noticed that if I try to create multiple adgroups with partitions, the batch API works for more than 2 adgroups. But it doesn't work if the adgroups already exist and only the partitions need to be modified.

Thanks!

[Rucha Kanade]

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Rucha,

Bypassing the constraint on the number of shopping ad groups modified per job is not currently possible, but I'm very curious about this statement:

Also, I noticed that if I try to create multiple adgroups with partitions, the batch API works for more than 2 adgroups. But it doesn't work if the adgroups already exist and only the partitions need to be modified.

Would you happen to have the batch job ID of a job where you were able to create + modify more than 2 shopping ad groups? I'd like to investigate that further.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Rucha Kanade]

Thanks for your reply, Josh. Here is a sample job id: 580603681

Just curious, is there a chance of this constraint going away in the short term? Is it on the roadmap?

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Thanks for sending over the batch job ID. Looks like you're absolutely correct and that you were able to create multiple ad groups and their partitions in a single batch job. I'm following up to see if this is intentional.

I don't have any progress to report just yet on whether the limit will be increased, but I'll update this thread if that happens.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Rucha Kanade]

Thanks, Josh