After uploading an asset using the API, it is not possible to query it through the API.

xiaochuan li

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Apr 18, 2025, 12:15:48 AMApr 18

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I uploaded some images to asset using the api. I followed `https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/assets/working-with-assets` to upload images. The API successfully returned `resource_name`, but I cannot query this asset in the ui or through `https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v19/asset_query_builder`. Why is this?

This is the code I wrote to upload the image
```python
def create_image_asset():
customer_id = "xxxxxxx"
image_url = 'https://xxxxx.jpg'
width_pixels = 160
height_pixels = 600
image_name = '250404-160-600.jpg'

response = requests.get(image_url)
image_content = response.content
mime_type = response.headers['Content-Type']

client = GoogleAdsClient.load_from_storage(client_path, version="v17")
asset_service = client.get_service("AssetService")
asset_operation = client.get_type("AssetOperation")
asset = asset_operation.create
asset.type_ = client.enums.AssetTypeEnum.IMAGE
asset.image_asset.data = image_content
asset.image_asset.file_size = len(image_content)
if mime_type == 'image/jpeg':
asset.image_asset.mime_type = client.enums.MimeTypeEnum.IMAGE_JPEG
elif mime_type == 'image/png':
asset.image_asset.mime_type = client.enums.MimeTypeEnum.IMAGE_PNG
elif mime_type == 'image/gif':
asset.image_asset.mime_type = client.enums.MimeTypeEnum.IMAGE_GIF
else:
asset.image_asset.mime_type = client.enums.MimeTypeEnum.UNSPECIFIED
asset.image_asset.full_size.width_pixels = width_pixels
asset.image_asset.full_size.height_pixels = height_pixels
asset.name = image_name

mutate_asset_response = asset_service.mutate_assets(
customer_id=str(customer_id), operations=[asset_operation]
)
print(f'mutate_asset_response: {mutate_asset_response}')
```
Here is the return value of this code: `mutate_asset_response: results {
resource_name: "customers/xxxxx/assets/225688809944"
}`

I used this query, but couldn't get any information.

query = f"""
SELECT
asset.id,
asset.image_asset.file_size,
asset.image_asset.full_size.height_pixels,
asset.image_asset.full_size.url,
asset.image_asset.full_size.width_pixels,
asset.image_asset.mime_type
FROM asset
"""

Google Ads API Forum Advisor

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Apr 18, 2025, 2:13:46 AMApr 18

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Hi,

Thank you for contacting the Google Ads API support team.

Upon reviewing your concern, I understand that you have uploaded image assets to your Google Ads account using the Google Ads API and now you are trying to retrieve those image assets using the Google Ads API.

In order to investigate this issue, please provide your Google Ads customer Id and complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header) generated at your end while uploading the image asset and while retrieving the image asset without redacting any information.

I understand that you are using the Python client library. So, if you haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the Python client library. You can refer to the guide Python to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.

You can send the details via Reply privately to the author option, or direct private reply to this email.

Thanks,