Hi Ky,
Thanks for reaching out. With regards to your concern about pausing keywords within the ad group, you can use the
AdGroupCriterionService and set the status of the
AdGroupCriterion to
PAUSED. You can follow the update keywords example
here but set the ad_group_criterion.status to PAUSED instead.
Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team

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