Preventing duplicate FeedItem Objects for Ad Customizer Feed

[s...@feedonomics.com]

We initialize our feed items for our ad customizer feed using our products, but how do we detect and prevent duplicate FeedItems from being generated the next time we run the same script? Right now, the simple solution is to clear (delete) all FeedItems from Google AdWords website before running the script, and if we don't, duplicate FeedItems will be generated each time we run the script. What is the best way to handle multiple/updating/deleting and just managing FeedItems in general?

A query on existing FeedItems returns this:

[2] => FeedItem Object ( [feedId] => 41951232 [feedItemId] => 9440760707 [status] => [startTime] => [endTime] => [attributeValues] => Array ( [0] => FeedItemAttributeValue Object ( [feedAttributeId] => 1 [integerValue] => [doubleValue] => [booleanValue] => [stringValue] => 109 [integerValues] => [doubleValues] => [booleanValues] => [stringValues] => ) [1] => FeedItemAttributeValue Object ( [feedAttributeId] => 2 [integerValue] => [doubleValue] => [booleanValue] => [stringValue] => 5 [integerValues] => [doubleValues] => [booleanValues] => [stringValues] => ) [2] => FeedItemAttributeValue Object ( [feedAttributeId] => 3 [integerValue] => [doubleValue] => [booleanValue] => [stringValue] => 10x5 [integerValues] => [doubleValues] => [booleanValues] => [stringValues] => ) [3] => FeedItemAttributeValue Object ( [feedAttributeId] => 4 [integerValue] => [doubleValue] => [booleanValue] => [stringValue] => Clearwater [integerValues] => [doubleValues] => [booleanValues] => [stringValues] => ) [4] => FeedItemAttributeValue Object ( [feedAttributeId] => 5 [integerValue] => [doubleValue] => [booleanValue] => [stringValue] => FL [integerValues] => [doubleValues] => [booleanValues] => [stringValues] => ) )

The Google AdWords page shows "Target ad group" and "Target campaign" for each row of FeedItems, but it's not shown in the FeedItem Object above. Do we know where the targeting info is attached to for each FeedItem Object? Thanks!

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Sam,

Do you have any SOAP logs where you are seeing duplicate feed item Ids? If so, could you please provide me with them using reply privately to author so I can take a closer look as to why this is happening?

Thanks,

Anthony

AdWords API Team