TargetingIdeaService Pagination Limits

[Charles Michael]

Hello,

I'm trying to use TargetingIdeaService to fetch as many suggestions as possible for some generic keywords I want to explore. From the limits page, I can see there is a hard limit of 700 keyword suggestions returned as output per request. I can also see from the Paging feature of TargetingIdeaService that we can provide a startIndex and numberResults to paginate our results. I seem to not be getting any results though for using values of startIndex=700, numberResults=700. Is it not possible to fetch results 700-1400, 1400-2100, etc? I'm not getting an error, just getting 0 results returned even though the first page of results is the full set of 700. Based on the documentation on the limits, it seems to imply that the 700 results limit is per request, if you paginate your results, can you not crawl beyond the initial 700 results? 

Thank you.

[Joyce Lava]

Hello Charles,

You should be able to fetch the results beyond 700 by using the startIndex. I would recommend trying the query to the Keyword Planner tool in the UI and then do the same query in the API so we can confirm if the query should be getting any results or not. After doing so in both UI and API, please send to me (reply privately to author) the screenshots and SOAP request and response for comparison.

Thanks,

Joyce, AdWords API Team

[Charles Michael]

PM sent. Thank you Joyce. 

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Charles,

It turns out that there is actually a limit of the number of results returned from TargetingIdeaService.

We've updated the documentation accordingly here.

Thanks for much for raising this question.

Cheers,

Thanet, AdWords API Team