Get all ads, keywords and sitelinks serving

[Danny]

Hi

Is there a way to get all ads, keywords and sitelinks serving without checking whether the campaign and adgroup is enabled?

Currently the only way I can think of is to get all enabled keywords (for example), and retrieve the adgroup and campaign (based on the IDs) it belongs to and check whether the status is enabled. However, let's say if you have like thousands of keywords, this seems pretty inefficient and involves a lot of API calls.

I'm wondering if there's such a thing where you can filter out the entities that are serving (keyword AND adgroup AND campaign is enabled) in a single API call?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Danny,

You can use AdWords API reports instead to retrieve Ads, keywords and sitelinks from the corresponding report types and query for rows where the CampaignStatus and AdGroupStatus is ENABLED using predicates. This way you wont have to make a second request to check the AdGroup and Campaign status. This guide provides more details on using the AdWords API to download reports. The DownloadCriteriaReport Java example demonstrates how to download a Criteria Performance Report. Example code in other languages is available here. 

 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[Danny]

Thanks Shwetha.

Seems like using this approach I'll need to download a file - something I'd like to avoid.

Is there a way to do this and get a JSON response instead?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Danny,

I'm afraid AdWords API reports can only be downloaded in the formats listed here. You can retrieve the reports in one of the supported formats and use a parser to convert to JSON in your application.