How to filter out removed Ads?

[Juan Pablo Gardella]

Hello all,

I need to filter out removed Ads when I retrieve AdGroup objects. The removed Ads are easily to detect using the Web UI

But when I want to determine the Ad status using the API, I'm unable to determine that. For example if I query the AdGroups using the following code in Java

    Selector selectorAds = builder.fields(AdGroupAdField.Id, AdGroupAdField.AdGroupId,
        AdGroupAdField.AdType, AdGroupAdField.Status, AdGroupAdField.BaseCampaignId,
        AdGroupAdField.CreativeFinalUrls).offset(offset).limit(PAGE_SIZE).equals(
            AdGroupAdField.BaseCampaignId, Objects.toString(646465621L)).build();
// do the query

The selector returns all the AdGroup's Ad objects. For example, below Ad is removed.

        <getResponse xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809">
            <rval>
                <totalNumEntries>24</totalNumEntries>
                <Page.Type>AdGroupAdPage</Page.Type>
                <entries>
                    <adGroupId>34810610889</adGroupId>
                    <ad xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="TextAd">
                        <id>116841139809</id>
                        <type>TEXT_AD</type>
                        <Ad.Type>TextAd</Ad.Type>
                    </ad>
                    <status>ENABLED</status>
                    <baseCampaignId>646465621</baseCampaignId>
                </entries>

How can I determine if an Ad is removed or not using the API?

Thanks

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Juan,

Could you clarify if my understanding is correct that the ads with 'REMOVED' status was included in the API response? If yes, the ads with "PAUSED" and "ENABLED" statuses are the only ads that will be included in the API response unless you implemented the filter below in your selector.

.in(AdGroupAdField.Status, "ENABLED", "PAUSED", "DISABLED")

However, it seems that you haven't set the filter specified above but the specific ads with 'removed' status was included in the API response. With this, could you provide the complete SOAP request and response logs together with the customer ID so I can further investigate it.

Regards,

Ejay

Google Ads API Team

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