What is the URL to mutate ad groups and ads?

[Steve Wilcox]

Greetings Forum Faithful!

To create a campaign via the Ads Rest interface, you send a mutate request to:

/.../customers/CUSTOMER_ID/campaigns:mutate  

Once I have my campaign created, where do I send requests to create an ad group in that campaign?  

Once I have an ad group, where do I send requests to create an ad in that ad group?

Thanks!

[Steve Wilcox]

/customers/CUSTOMER_ID/adGroupAds:mutate

/customers/CUSTOMER_ID/adGroups:mutate  

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Steve,

Thank you for reaching out.

You may refer to this guide on how you can derive and construct URLs if you choose to use the REST interface for mutate requests.

I hope this helps and please let me know if you have additional clarifications.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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[Salomey Arthur]

Hi guys, please i have been struggling with the Rest API request body for creating new ad campaign. I keep getting response errors. Please help me with the correct request body. The operations involved for 'create' are many. I have read all about it too. Please check my code and help me correct it:

$curl = curl_init();
            curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
            CURLOPT_URL => "https://googleads.googleapis.com/v7/customers/{my customer id here}/campaigns:mutate",
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
            CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
            CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
            CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
            CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
            CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
            CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
            CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>"{
                'operations': [
                  {
                    'create': {
                      'name': 'First Campaign #{1}',
                      'advertisingChannelType': 'SEARCH',
                      'status': 'PAUSED',
                      'networkSettings': {
                          'targetGoogleSearch': true,
                            'targetSearchNetwork': true,
                            'targetContentNetwork': false,
                            'targetPartnerSearchNetwork': false
                      },
                        'startDate': '{$start_date}',
                        'endDate': '{$end_date}',
                        'paymentMode': 'CLICKS',

                       'campaigneBudget': '5'                   

                    }
                  }
                ],
                  'partialFailure': false,
                  'validateOnly': false
            }",
            CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
                "Content-Type: application/json",
                "developer-token: {my developer token here}",
                "login-customer-id: {my manager id here}",
                "Authorization: Bearer {my auth token}"
                ),
            ));
            $response = curl_exec($curl);
           
            curl_close($curl);
           
            var_dump($response)

Urgent solution needed. Please help.

[Bram van Rijswijk]

Hi, change 'campaigneBudget' to 'campaign_budget'. Before you create a campaign you have to create a budget. See this page: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/rest/examples.

[Bram van Rijswijk]

Ah I see 'campaignBudget' can also be used. We use 'campaign_budget'. As long as it has the resource name, it will work.

[Salomey Arthur]

Thanks Bram for the response.

I found the solution to it not long ago. There are two ways involved if using Rest API.

First instance is a request body that initializes multiple campaign operations(campaign budget, campaign, AdGroup, Text Ad) with one endpoint.

Second instance is individual request bodies for each operation with different endpoints matching them.

I opted for the second and it's also supposed to follow the sequence(1st: campaign budget, 2nd: campaign, 3rd: AdGroup, 4th: Text Ad). My problem was, i attempted creating campaign individually whilst i hadn't created it's budget first.

Everything is running well now.

I really appreciate the prompt response from you though.

Thanks again Bram.

[Salomey Arthur]

Hi Bram,

Please one more thing: I get errors when i send request to generate keyword ideas. The request body is quite large and i keep getting errors. Please i'm still using Rest API.

Can you please help me with a quick example for the request body to generate keyword ideas?

This is the endpoint: https://googleads.googleapis.com/v7/customers/{customer id}:generateKeywordIdeas

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi,

I'm from the API support team and allow me to chime in on your concern.

Examples are currently limited and we do not have one specific to what you are looking for. That said, could you share the error you are encountering so our team can have a closer look?

[Salomey Arthur]

Hello Peter,

Thanks for reaching out. Please check out my code for generating the keyword ideas:

$curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(

    CURLOPT_URL => "https://googleads.googleapis.com/v7/customers/{customer id}:generateKeywordIdeas",

    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>"{

        'geoTargetConstants': ['USA','Canada'],
        'includeAdultKeywords': 'false',
        'pageToken': '1',
        'pageSize': '1000',
        'keywordPlanNetwork': 'GOOGLE_SEARCH',
        'keywordAnnotation': ['KEYWORD_CONCEPT'],
        'aggregateMetrics': 'DEVICE',
        'language': 'English',
        'siteSeed': {
            'site': 'https://www.example.com'

            }
    }",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        "Content-Type: application/json",

        "developer-token: {developer token}",
        "login-customer-id: {manager id}",
        "Authorization: Bearer {bearer token}"

        ),
    ));
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    
    curl_close($curl);

    var_dump($response);

[Salomey Arthur]

Ok guys, i just found the solution to the request body for generating keyword ideas. I have made the necessary correction and my code is running alright along with the Rest API.

Thanks to all who had intention to help me with a solution.