Get ad group's target optimization status through API

[Eugene]

Hello.

I want to get Ad Group's target optimization status through API.

What's the properties I should retrieve for conservative and aggressive optimization appropriately?

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

This feature is not currently available in the AdWords API.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Eugene]

OK. So there is no setting to retrieve conservative mode, right?

And does AdGroup.Settings.ExplorerAutoOptimizerSetting actually means DCO aggressive optimization mode? 

[Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

I am trying to confirm that this works the way you suggest.

Regards,

Mike, AdWords API Team

[Eugene]

Any news regarding my question?

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Eugene,

Mike is currently out of office. I'll double-check and let you know.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Danial Klimkin]

Short update -- I am still investigating this. We'll update the docs and I'll get back to you once I have more details.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Eugene,

Sorry for the delay, I've figured this out now.

AdGroup.Settings.ExplorerAutoOptimizerSetting has the following effect:

optIn == true -> Enables Aggressive Targeting ("Aggressive targeting" and "Let AdWords automatically find new customers" are checked in the UI),
optIn == false -> Disables ExplorerAutoOptimizer ("Let AdWords automatically find new customers" is unchecked).

There is no API field for the Conservative setting at the moment, I'll log a request to include it in the future API versions.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

On Friday, July 25, 2014 4:57:26 PM UTC+4, Danial Klimkin wrote:

[Barak Haviv]

Hey

Is There Any change about this subject ?

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Barak,

No, no changes so far.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Anil]

Hello,

Using V201509 I just tried to uncheck "Let AdWords automatically find new customers" by using ExplorerAutoOptimizerSetting and passing optIn == false but it didn't work and it gets set to Conservative.

 Is this not possible via API to uncheck this setting?

Thanks,

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Anil,

I am not able to reproduce this behavior. In my test setting optIn to false unchecked the "Let AdWords automatically find new customers" checkbox.

If you still experience the issue, please start a new thread with more details (API call, account and ad group ID). I am going to close this one as it's from 2014.

-Danial.