Get the creation time of the ad account

[maltose]

Hello All, 

 

I want to get the start time of the advertising account through api, is there any good way?

 This is important to me.

Best Regards  

[Zweitze]

AdWords API does not have the start time, nor any related info like the time the first user was added, or the time that the first user agreed with Terms & Conditions, or anything like that.

You may want to consider what you really need. In my case, every now and then I get a new account which is very large - so large you cannot just ask for reports, segmented by date, with ALL_TIME: you get an error. To overcome that, you ask multiple reports in periods. But what would be a suitable start time? Just starting with January 1st 2000, and asking 30-day reports is not that optimal. (Plus, certain reports of me give an error on 30 day periods, sometimes I have to get down to 4 day periods!)

For my case, finding the ealiest start date of its campaigns is good enough. Before the first start date no activity can possibly happen. To get the first start date in AdWords API, use campaign service, have the results sorted by campaign start date, and limit the request to one - no need to get multiple campaigns. Also make sure that deleted campaigns are not filtered out, as they can be the oldest campaign.

In Ads API things work different but you get the idea.

Again, this method works for finding the earliest date on which activity can be reported. You may have a different use case.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi All,

Thank you for reaching out to us. Could you clarify what you mean by advertising account start time? Do you mean something like campaign startDate? Please let me know.

Thank you,
Bryan, Google Ads API Team

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[learn protect]

hi,

I need to retrieve the creation time or start time of ad campaigns, ad groups, and keyword in the new Google Ads API v12 version. I need to filter them based on time. For example, I want to obtain keywords created within the last 30 days. Do you have any good suggestions? I am looking forward to your reply.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Learn,

Thank you for reaching out to us. 

With regard to your concern, the data that you were looking for can be extracted via reports. Kindly refer to the list below

• Campaign (filtering it via campaign.start_date) - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v13/campaign
• Ad Group - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v13/ad_group
• Keywords - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v13/keyword_view

Regards,

Google Ads API Team

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[learn protect]

HI,

There is a "start_date" field on the ad campaign report, but the ad group, ad, and keyword reports do not have a "start_date" or similar field. Please help me confirm this. I will continue to communicate about this issue in this conversation later. Thank you~

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for returning to us.

@Learn
Kindly note that Google Ads API mirrors the Google Ads UI. Meaning, you can retrieve or get data that is available and can be seen in the Google Ads UI by using the Google Ads API. That said, can you please provide the uncropped Google Ads UI screenshot showing the start_date that you want to get via the Google Ads API?

You may then send the requested logs via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

@Maltose
Regarding your concern, the start date of the campaign can be retrieved by using the campaign resource and the campaign.start_date field. As for the other data, can you also please provide the uncropped Google Ads UI screenshot showing the start_date that you want to get via the Google Ads API? I asked this so that our team can provide accurate assistance to you.

You may then send the requested logs via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Regards,

Google Ads API Team

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