when reporting using the geographic view, why are we not allowed to retrieve the actual name of the county, state, city, zip, etc...

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James Nixon

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Apr 15, 2020, 1:19:57 PM4/15/20

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When reporting using the geographic view, why are we not allowed to retrieve the actual name of the county, state, city, zip, etc... It only allows retrieving resource name of the geo_target_constant that represents the xxxx

There is a reverse lookup service function that takes as an input the resource name and gives the English name back, but that is limited to 1000 requests per day quota. I have many data sets to report on daily, and each one is hundreds of thousands of rows.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Apr 15, 2020, 3:43:00 PM4/15/20

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Hi James,

Thank you for reaching out. While I can't speak for why that isn't available, I have two potential workarounds for you. First, if you have the list of resource names, you can run the geo_target_constant report and select the canonical_name. Second, you can download the list of geotargets here (same IDs in AdWords and Google Ads APIs) and create your own code to find the names within that list.

Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team