Ad strength in GAds API different than GAds UI

[Alex Santana]

Hi,

I am using an testing account to check some GAds API capabilities and found that the ad strength returned by the API is different than what the API shows.

Also, the API always return a PENDING strength.

This is pretty much the same issue discussed in these two conversations:

Here: https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/9jHR6-2dxNA/m/lvWGm6GBAgAJ

and here: https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/e0QOXF5aMPE/m/MZRmGMZcFQAJ

But I cannot get a solution from there.

Could some one please help me understand how to obtain the same strength as the Gads UI?

My query to GoogleAdsService is similar to what we have in the API documentation:

query = f"""
        SELECT
            ad_group.id,
            ad_group.name,
            ad_group.status,
            ad_group_ad.ad.id,
            ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.headlines,
            ad_group_ad.ad.responsive_search_ad.descriptions,
            ad_group_ad.status,
            ad_group_ad.ad_strength
        FROM
            ad_group_ad
        WHERE
            ad_group.id = {ad_group_id}
            AND ad_group_ad.ad.id = {ad_id}
    """

Thank you

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

After reviewing your query, I understand that you are seeing some discrepancy in the Ads strength data. In order to investigate, kindly provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header ) along with the uncropped UI screenshot generated at your end to better assist you on this request. 

If you are using a client library and haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the specific client library that you are using. You can refer to the guides Java , .Net , PHP, Python , Ruby or Perl to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.
 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02rYPO3:ref"

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team