Updating AdGroup Ads failed with ADGROUP_LIMIT error

[Wenhui Jia]

Using the following code to update an ads and the function call returns ADGROUP_LIMIT error..

The Python SDK we are using is "google-ads==4.1.1"

<code>

   client = GoogleAdsClient.load_from_storage()

   ad_group_ad_service = client.get_service('AdGroupAdService', version='v1')

   ad_group_ad_operation = client.get_type('AdGroupAdOperation', version='v1')

   ad_group_ad = ad_group_ad_operation.update

   ad_group_ad.resource_name = "customers/REDACTED/adGroupAds/REDACTED~REDACTED"

   ad_group_ad.status = client.get_type('AdGroupStatusEnum', version='v1').ENABLED

   fm = protobuf_helpers.field_mask(None, ad_group_ad)

   ad_group_ad_operation.update_mask.CopyFrom(fm)

   response = ad_group_ad_service.mutate_ad_group_ads(customer_id, [ad_group_ad_operation])

</code>

The following are the log message and exception from the above function call:

Request

-------

Method: /google.ads.googleads.v1.services.AdGroupAdService/MutateAdGroupAds

Host: googleads.googleapis.com:443

Headers: {

  "developer-token": "REDACTED",

  "x-goog-api-client": "gl-python/3.8.1 grpc/1.26.0 gax/1.16.0 gapic/4.1.1"

}

Request: customer_id: "REDACTED"

operations {

  update {

    resource_name: "customers/REDACTED/adGroupAds/REDACTED~REDACTED"

    status: ENABLED

  }

  update_mask {

    paths: "resource_name"

    paths: "status"

  }

}

Response

-------

Headers: {

  "google.ads.googleads.v1.errors.googleadsfailure-bin": "\n\u0002\n\u0003\u0003\u0004\u0012\u0001Indicates that this request would exceed the number of allowed resources in an ad group. The exact resource type and limit being checked can be inferred from accountLimitType, and the numeric id of the ad group involved is given by enclosingId.\u001a\b*\u0006<null>\"\u0010\u0012\u000e\n\noperations\u0012\u0000",

  "grpc-status-details-bin": "\b\u0003\u0012%Request contains an invalid argument.\u001a\u0002\nCtype.googleapis.com/google.ads.googleads.v1.errors.GoogleAdsFailure\u0012\u0002\n\u0002\n\u0003\u0003\u0004\u0012\u0001Indicates that this request would exceed the number of allowed resources in an ad group. The exact resource type and limit being checked can be inferred from accountLimitType, and the numeric id of the ad group involved is given by enclosingId.\u001a\b*\u0006<null>\"\u0010\u0012\u000e\n\noperations\u0012\u0000",

  "request-id": "REDACTED"

}

Fault: errors {

  error_code {

    resource_count_limit_exceeded_error: ADGROUP_LIMIT

  }

  message: "Indicates that this request would exceed the number of allowed resources in an ad group. The exact resource type and limit being checked can be inferred from accountLimitType, and the numeric id of the ad group involved is given by enclosingId."

  trigger {

    string_value: "<null>"

  }

  location {

    field_path_elements {

      field_name: "operations"

      index {

      }

    }

  }

}

What does the error code mean? Which resource does it refer to? Is this AdGroup contains too many ads? What is the limit?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Wenhui,

Thank you for reaching out. Can you please share the un-censored detailed logs via reply privately to author so that I can further investigate the issue? The ADGROUP_LIMIT error occurs when the call would exceed the number of resources in an ad group. The limits can be found here.

Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team

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