What is wrong with my code?

[David Scott]

$command = qq(curl -i -X POST \\
  "https://googleads.googleapis.com/v16/customers/$Certified_Santee/adGroupAds:mutate" \\
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \\
  --header "developer-token: $developer_token" \\
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" \\
  --data '
    {
      "operations":
      [
        "adGroupAdOperation":
        {
          "create":
          {
            "adGroup": "customers/$Certified_Santee/adGroupAds/$Santee_SSA4_Transmission",
            "status": "PAUSED",
            "ad":
            {
              "expandedTextAd":
              {
                "headlines":
                [
                  {
                    "pinnedField": "HEADLINE_1",
                    "text": "1985 Alfa Romeo Spider"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Alfa Romeo Spider transmission"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Alfa Romeo transmissions"
                  }
                ],

                "descriptions":
                [
                  {
                    "text": "Our experts are Alfa Romeo specialists. Many reman transmissions in stock."
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Certified Transmission Santee is a full Alfa Romeo transmission diagnostic center."
                  }
                ],
                "displayUrl": "$domain/ls_1985_Alfa_Romeo_Spider-transmission.shtml"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }

');

@result = qx{$command};

print "@result\n";

Result:

{
   "error": {
     "code": 400,
     "message": "Invalid JSON payload received. Expected , or ] after array value.\n\"adGroupAdOperation\": \n        [\n       \n                    ^",
     "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
   }
 }

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

Upon checking the provided logs, we found that you are getting an invalid argument error when creating adGroupAds via the Google Ads API. Kindly check below for troubleshooting steps that might help resolve your issue.

• Kindly note that customer ID should be 10-digit and numeric only. The format should be POST https://googleads.googleapis.com/v15/customers/{customerId}/adGroupAds:mutate.
• When creating an AdGroupAdOperation resource name is not expected.
• Please check the proper close and open parentheses in the request body.

I would suggest you check the AdGroupAdOperation API REST Explorer to know the valid arguments you have to pass as a request to create ad group ads.

I hope it helps. 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02rzV1f:ref"

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Please ignore my previous mail.