How can I pull location data before migrating locations extention to GMB?

[Gio Villanueva]

Before migrating manual locations extentions to Google My Business, I was asked “to pull location dat to avoid downtime in managing location extensions.”

1. What does this mean? 
2. What data should I take note of? 
3. Where can I find them ? 
4. How do I pull them for the accounts?

Thanks for the help!

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Gio, 

Have you had a chance to go through our blog about sunsetting manual location feed and migrating your locations to Google My Business? If not, please take a look at that and the API docs on location extensions guide with detailed steps of instructions including the code samples. 

1. What does this mean? 

This means that you will no longer be able to create/manage manual location feeds (Feed and FeedItem with a corresponding FeedMapping of placeholderType 7 and placeholderType 77). Instead, you will have to create an account in Google My Business and manage your locations there either manually or using the GMB API. This GMB account will then have to be linked with your respective AdWords account. The detailed steps are listed in our location extensions guide. 

2. What data should I take note of? 

You could make a note of the existing manual location feeds available in your account. Please note that if you do not migrate to GMB yourself the data will get auto migrated at a later date. 

3. Where can I find them ? 

You can find the name of the existing location extensions in your AdWords accounts -> Shared Library -> Business Data with the locations type. Once you know the name of your location feed, you could used FeedService.get() and filter with the name to get the Feed Id corresponding to that Feed. Then use the FeedItemService.get() to get all the FeedItems in that feed with all the required data.

4. How do I pull them for the accounts?

You could use the steps described above for all the accounts from which you need to extract the manual location Feed and FeedItem data. 

Thanks,
Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team