Pulling a list of creatives

[Jeff Johnson]

Hi Adwords Forum,

This seems like a simple question, but I have to ask:

According to this, ad ids are unique within an adgroup and adgroup ids are globally unique. If I were to have a list of adgroupid and creativeid pairs, then there's no way to select exactly those creatives in a single call to the AdGroupAd service correct?

For example, say I want to select two ads:

AdgroupId, CreativeId

1,3

2,4

Then I could use the predicates value: (python)

[{field: 'Id', 'operator': 'IN', 'values': ['1','3',...]},

 {field: 'AdGroupId', 'operator': 'IN', 'values': ['2','4',...]}]

but this would return these ads (if they exist)

AdgroupId, CreativeId

1,3

1,4

2,4

2,3

Do I just need to filter this out on the client side? Or should I just make a different request for each ad? This seems like something that should be simple to do.

Thanks!

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Jeff,

Correct. Depending on the number of collisions, you may prefer multiple requests or filtering on the client side.

I'd go for the client-side filtering as generally I expect the number of different ad groups (and thus requests) to be large.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.