Skip Removed Adgoups, KeyWords, and Text Ads?

[Edward Bernays]

Can tell the API to ignore removed adgroups/keywords/text when I do a get call? My script was fast, but it's starting to take a really long time as it appears to be going through all removed items in my campaign.

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Edward,

To get the removed AdGroups, Keywords and Ads, you can use the AdGroupService, AdGroupCriterionService and AdGroupAdService respectively. Then, use the selector fields to filter by status for AdGroups and Ads; and by userStatus for keywords.

Sample code snippet in java for AdGroup is as below:

Selector selector = builder

        .fields(AdGroupField.Id, AdGroupField.Name, AdGroupField.Status)

        .orderAscBy(AdGroupField.Name)

        .offset(offset)

        .limit(PAGE_SIZE)

        .equals(AdGroupField.Status,"REMOVED")

        .build();

Please let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Dhanya, AdWords API Team

[Edward Bernays]

Hi Dhanya,

I was wondering if it was possible for the API to ignore removed keywords & adgroups. I have over 100,000 removed keywords and it's slowing down my script.

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Edward,

For your code to ignore removed adgroup and keywords, you would need to use predicates in your selector as below:

// For AdGroups

    // Create selector.

    SelectorBuilder builder = new SelectorBuilder();

    Selector selector = builder

        .fields(AdGroupField.Id, AdGroupField.Name, AdGroupField.Status)

        .orderAscBy(AdGroupField.Name)

        .offset(offset)

        .limit(PAGE_SIZE)

        .in(AdGroupField.Status,"ENABLED","PAUSED")

        .build();

//For Keywords

    // Create selector.

    SelectorBuilder builder = new SelectorBuilder();

    Selector selector = builder

        .fields(

            AdGroupCriterionField.Id,

            AdGroupCriterionField.CriteriaType,

            AdGroupCriterionField.AdGroupId,

            AdGroupCriterionField.Status

            )

        .orderAscBy(AdGroupCriterionField.KeywordText)

        .offset(offset)

        .limit(PAGE_SIZE)

        .in(AdGroupCriterionField.AdGroupId, adGroupId.toString())

        .in(AdGroupCriterionField.CriteriaType, "KEYWORD")

        .in(AdGroupCriterionField.Status, "ENABLED", "PAUSED")

        .build();