How to get Text Ads count of AdGroups

[Aswini]

Hi

How can i get Text Ads count for particular AdGroups. Is there any Adwords api class providing this option ? 

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

There are (at least) two ways you could do this:

1. Perform an AdGroupAdService.get (or AdGroupAdService.query) and filter by AdType equal to TEXT_AD. Each client library contains an example named GetTextAds that does just that in the examples/basic_operations folder.

2. Use the Ad Group Performance Report with a filter on AdType  of TEXT_AD, and include zero impressions.

Cheers,

Josh, Adwords API Team

[Aswini]

Hi Josh, 

I followed 1st way ( AdGroupAdService.get ). Through this I downloaded total Text Ads of all campaigns it's took almost 3 hours time. I don't want to download any Text Ads of particular AdGroup. I need only count of TextAds for particular Adgroups. How can i get it this. 

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

The text ad count is not available directly from the API, so you'll have to count it yourself by retrieving the ads. From the 3 hour time you mentioned below it sounds like you must have a rather large account, in which case I would definitely recommend trying the reporting approach I mentioned.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Aswini]

Thanks Josh. 

[mm]

Hey Aswini -

At least with the java client, I don't believe that you actually have to download all of the ads. Instead, set up your selector, and then do something like:

        Paging paging = new Paging();

        paging.setNumberResults(1); //make this as small as possible since we don't really want to retrieve the ads

        paging.setStartIndex(0);

        selector.setPaging(paging);

        AdGroupAdPage page = getAdGroupAdService(acctId).get( selector );

        int numberOfAds = page.getTotalNumEntries();

I haven't used this for ads, but I use this technique for other objects and it works great.

HTH -

mm