How do I use the next_page_token in cURL?

[Jarrod Thuener]

I've seen the obvious response to paging issues "use a library", but I don't have that ability. I have to use cURL.

Here's what the documentation states about paging:

Making a request

The search method requires a SearchGoogleAdsRequest, which consists of the following attributes:

• A customer_id.
• A Google Ads Query Language query that indicates which resource to query, the attributes, segments, and metrics to retrieve, and the conditions to use to restrict which objects are returned.
• A page_size to indicate how many objects to return in a single response when using paging.
• An optional page_token to retrieve the next batch of results when using paging.

For more information on the Google Ads Query Language, check out the Google Ads Query Language guide.

and on paging:

Paging through results

Whenever you are retrieving a large number of objects, you'll want to specify the page_size in your request. This will break up the result set of the query into multiple responses that each contain up to page_size objects.

For example, if your account contains 50,000 keywords, the result set for the following query will contain 50,000 GoogleAdsRow objects:

SELECT ad_group.id, ad_group_criterion.type, ad_group_criterion.criterion_id,
       ad_group_criterion.keyword.text, ad_group_criterion.keyword.match_type
FROM ad_group_criterion
WHERE ad_group_criterion.type = KEYWORD

To avoid receiving a single response containing all rows in the result set, you can specify a page_size of 1000 so that the Google Ads API will return only the first one thousand rows in the first response, along with a next_page_token. To retrieve the next one thousand rows, simply send the request again, but update the request's page_token to the response's next_page_token.

So my question is where do I specify the page_token?

Thanks!

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out. In Google Ads API perspective, page_token and next_page_token doesn't have to be specified. These two are automatically generated when you execute your request. So for example, you have 300 ads and you set the page_size to 100, when you execute the request, the API will generate a response with the next_page_token together with the first 100 results. Then, the API will automatically make an API call until it retrieves all the results. 

Feel free to write back if you have further clarifications.

Regards,

Dave

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[Jarrod Thuener]

From what I understand, the caveat here is that a library it's used... I have to use curl, so the first call returns the first 10000 results then it provides a next page token. How to I push that token through again to get the next set of results?

[Jarrod Thuener]

Let me rephrase my question for clarity.

Can someone provide a cURL example for pulling the "next_token"?

Thanks!

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi,

My apologies if I couldn't provide an actual cURL example. You would need to add the page token after the page size. See below:

{

  "customer_id": <insert_customer_id_here>,

  "query" : "insert_query_string_here",

  "page_size": "insert_page_size_here",

  "page_token": "inser_page_token_here"

}

Let me know if this helps.

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Dave

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[Jarrod Thuener]

Thanks. I got it to work by adding the page_token to the Body. I was previously adding it to the header, which obviously wasn't working. Thanks for the help!!

So all things equal, the only change was the body WAS:

{"query":"my query here"}

and now it is 

{

"query":"same query as above",

"page_token":"the nextPageToken value from the initial response"

}

Thanks!!