AdGroupService - startIndex too high

[Alex Arias]

Hello everyone, 

I recently started seeing an error while trying to use the AdGroupService API to pull the current CPC bids for adgroups in one of my accounts.

This is the code I have been using to do this: 

client.SetClientCustomerId(str(account_id))
ad_group_service = client.GetService('AdGroupService', version='v201605')

PAGE_SIZE = 500

# Get all ad group bid
selector = {
    'fields': ['CampaignId', 'CampaignName', 'Id', 'Name', 'CpcBid'],
    'predicates': [
        {
            'field': 'Status',
            'operator': 'EQUALS',
            'values': 'ENABLED'
        }
    ],
    'paging': {
        'startIndex': '0',
        'numberResults': '500'
    }
}

# Set initial values.
offset, page = 0, {}
more_results = True

bids = []
number = 0
while more_results:
    page = ad_group_service.get(selector)
    if not bids:
        print('total number of entries: %s' % int(page['totalNumEntries']))
    if page['entries']:
        for bid in page['entries']:
            current_bid = bid.biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids[0].bid[1]
            bid_dict = {'CampaignId': bid['campaignId'],
                         'AdGroupId': bid['id'],
                         'CurrentBid': current_bid if current_bid else 0}
            number += 1
            print('bid number %s' % number)
            print(bid_dict)
            bids.append(bid_dict)

        # Increment values to request the next page.
        offset += PAGE_SIZE
        selector['paging']['startIndex'] = str(offset)
    else:
        print('No ad group bid modifiers returned.')
    more_results = int(page['totalNumEntries']) > offset
dataframe = pd.DataFrame(bids)
return dataframe

However, the Client Account only contains ~25,000 adgroups but the API is returning a total of ~116,000 adgroups.

I am not sure why the query is returning this large amount of campaign/adgroups. Is there something I am missing?

Thanks, 

Alex

[Joyce Lava]

Hi Alex,

Could you please send to me (reply privately to author) the complete SOAP request and response and the clientCustomerId used to better check the issue?

Thanks,

Joyce, AdWords API Team