AdWords and Google Ads API return different UserList data

[Yuxiang Wang]

Hi,

I'm currently migrating from AdWords API to Google Ads API. And I found data mismatch issue on UserList report.

From the AdWordsUserListService,  there are a lot of rows has field "ExpressionRuleUserList.rule" which is not null. However, in  Google Ads API, the rows with same userListId has empty field "user_list.rule_based_user_list.expression_rule_user_list.rule.rule_item_groups".

I also checked those rows from Google Ads API, their userlist type is ruleBased but they have no combined_rule_user_list, date_specific_rule_user_list or expression_rule_user_list, which is not null in Ad Words API.

The query I used for Google Ads API is quite simple. There is no filter and just select some fields from UserList. Below is the field I select:

["user_list.access_reason", "user_list.account_user_list_status", "user_list.closing_reason", "user_list.description", "user_list.id", "user_list.integration_code", "user_list.membership_life_span", "user_list.name", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.prepopulation_status", "user_list.logical_user_list.rules", "user_list.size_for_search", "user_list.size_range_for_search", "user_list.basic_user_list.actions", "user_list.crm_based_user_list.app_id", "user_list.crm_based_user_list.data_source_type", "user_list.crm_based_user_list.upload_key_type", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.date_specific_rule_user_list.end_date", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.date_specific_rule_user_list.rule.rule_item_groups", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.date_specific_rule_user_list.rule.rule_type", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.date_specific_rule_user_list.start_date", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.expression_rule_user_list.rule.rule_item_groups", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.expression_rule_user_list.rule.rule_type", "user_list.eligible_for_display", "user_list.eligible_for_search", "user_list.read_only", "user_list.type", "user_list.similar_user_list.seed_user_list", "user_list.size_for_display", "user_list.size_range_for_display", "user_list.membership_status", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.combined_rule_user_list.left_operand.rule_item_groups", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.combined_rule_user_list.left_operand.rule_type", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.combined_rule_user_list.right_operand.rule_item_groups", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.combined_rule_user_list.right_operand.rule_type", "user_list.rule_based_user_list.combined_rule_user_list.rule_operator"].

Could you please help check it? Thanks!

Best, 

Yuxiang

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello Yuxiang,

Thanks for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team. Could you please give us more details on your concern?
For better understanding of the issue you are facing, could you please give us an example of report definition from your end or please share a full screen screenshot of the UI to indicate which advertising specific activities show a different value via API.

If you are already on GoogleAds API v10 and still having issues, kindly share the complete request and response logs with request ID and request header generated on your end, so our team can better check the root cause of the error?
Please send the requested details via the Reply privately to the author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to us googleadsa...@google.com alias instead. 

Best regards,

Jakeia Sabrina Google Ads API Team

 

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