Retrieve a list of existing shared audiences (particularly CRM)

[stephen.wat...@gmail.com]

Hi

I'm a fairly amateurish python user currently creating/updating CRM user based audiences using googleads.

While I've been able to do the above, is it possible to retrieve a list of (all, or just CRM) audiences that exist? names and ids would be more than enough info

I am guesing it involves:

user_list_service = client.GetService('AdwordsUserListService', version='v201702')

but what I would need to do to user_list_service to get the data I require.

I do something similar with facebookads by using:

audiences = my_account.get_custom_audiences(fields=[CustomAudience.Field.name])

audiences = [{"id":d['id'], "name":d['name']} for d in audiences]

Any advice appreciated, cheers

Stephen

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi Stephen,

Once you have initialized the service, you can create a service selector to specify the fields that you wish to retrieve via the service (complete list of fields available here). 

  

campaign_service = client.GetService('AdwordsUserListService', version='v201702')

  # Construct selector and get all campaigns.

  offset = 0

  selector = {

      'fields': ['Id', 'Name', 'Status'],

      'paging': {

          'startIndex': str(offset),

          'numberResults': str(PAGE_SIZE)

      }

  }

You can then specify the selector in the AdwordsUserListService.get (as follows) to retrieve the lists in your account:

  

 page = campaign_service.get(selector)

You can use the ListType field in the selector to filter on the CRM_BASED lists only. 

Hope this helps. Please revert if you have additional questions or concerns. 

Regards,

Vishal, AdWords API Team

[stephen.wat...@gmail.com]

Thanks Vishal, that's perfect!