Can't create ads using mutate in google ads API call (Using CURL not client library)

[ProMotive Car]

Hi

I'm researching google ads API and started to work out the whole ad create process via API (only using CURL not using client library).

As per documentation, we should use mutate for CREATE/UPDATE/REMOVE operations for an endpoint. In the way, I've created campaign budget, campaign, adgroups successfully via API mutate operation. However, I'm trying to create an ad. But I'm facing some issues while creating that.

Here I'll explain two cases which I've tried.

1. First I've used mutate create operation for google ads endpoint.

https://googleads.googleapis.com/v6/customers/{customer_id}/ads:mutate

With the corresponding request body.

But I got the following error.

Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name \"create\" at 'operations[0]': Cannot find field.

As per this error, I thought, we don't have create mutate for ads API. So I've tried adGroupAds endpoint.

2. https://googleads.googleapis.com/v6/customers/{customer-id}/adGroupAds:mutate

Request Body

{

  "operations": [

    {

    "create": {

        "status": "PAUSED",

        "ad": {

            "final_urls": "https://developers.google.com/",

            "name": "My Test ad"

        },

        "ad_group": "customers/{customer_id}/adGroups/{adGroupId}"

      }

    }

  ]

}

But I got resource not found error. I've also passed the resource_name param in the request body in the following ways

1. "resource_name": "customers/{customer_id}/adGroupAds/{adGroupId}/-1",

2. "resource_name": "customers/{customer_id}/adGroupAds/{adGroupId}~-1"

I'm not what I'm missing and how to create an ad using CURL. Please help me to overcome this. I'm not having a proper example for this endpoint in the API documentation using CURL. It will be more helpful if you help me with the sample request body, endpoint CURL, and what are the necessary params should be passed for the endpoint.

Thanks in advance.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

Thank you for posting your concern.

Please see my answer below for each item:
1. Create operation is not supported in AdService, with this, you need to use the AdGroupAdService instead for creating ads.

2. As discussed on the Key Point section of this document on constructing create operation in REST API, you don't need to specify a resourceName or ID and this is the possible reason why the error occurred. With this, please try not setting resourceName in the API request.

Also, our team doesn't have sample CURL for your use-case and you will need to follow this document in order to construct API quest. Let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Ernie John Blanca Tacata Google Ads API Team

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[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

I would like to inform you that I am going to remove your latest post on this forum thread as it contains generated logs. Please refrain from attaching generated API logs on forum.

Moving forward, according to this document of create operation of the AdGroupAdOperation, no resource name is expected for the new ads so the error should not be encountered in the API request that you've sent. However, so that I can further check the issue, could you provide the complete request and response logs generated on your end especially with request ID?

Please ensure to provide it via Reply privately to author option for privacy purposes.