Google Ads V1.0 - Campaign label querying limitations

[ja...@searchkings.ca]

Hi Google Ads Team,

In the old Adwords API, campaigns were able to access their own labels. However, in the new Ads API, campaigns do not have access to their own labels.

While fetching campaigns with specific labels is still straight forward, it's now seems impossible to do the opposite (without specific labels). For example, if we had a group of campaigns with the following labels:

1. Label A
2. Label B
3. <No Label>

And I wanted to get all the campaigns WITHOUT Label A. In the old API, it would simply be a query on campaigns WHERE labels CONTAINS NONE Label A and will get campaigns returned with Label B and also <No label>.

Now with the Ads API, using the campaign_label resource, I can form a similar query such as SELECT campaign.id FROM campaign_label WHERE label.name != Label A, however it'll only return campaigns with Label B. 

Is there another way to form this query? 

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Jason,

I was able to replicate the results on my test account. I will discuss this concern with the team and provide you with updates once available. 

Regards,

Dannison

Google Ads API Team

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Hello,

Thanks for pointing this out. I've reached out to our team to see if there's a better workaround we have for now or a way we can improve the usability here in the future.

In the meanwhile, you can still get the results you want by using 2 queries. The first would fetch all campaigns in the account, and then the second would fetch all campaigns with the label you want to exclude. Then when you process all the campaigns, you would skip the ones that were returned by the label query. Obviously, this is not ideal, so I will still follow up to try to find a better long-term solution.

Regards,

Mike, Google Ads API Team

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