TargetingIdeaService Request - Python - INVALID SEARCH PARAMETERS

[Sken...@franklinsports.com]

I'm attempting to pull keyword planner data from the API using the python lib examples.

I continue to get the following error: 

suds.WebFault: Server raised fault: '[TargetingIdeaError.INVALID_SEARCH_PARAMETERS @ selector.searchParameters.searchParameters[0]; trigger:'RelatedToQuerySearchParameter']'

I'm very confused on this error as I'm following the documentation exactly. Please help!

AD_GROUP_ID = None

PAGE_SIZE = 100

def main(client, ad_group_id=None):

  # Initialize appropriate service.

  targeting_idea_service = client.GetService(

      'TargetingIdeaService', version='v201802')

  # Construct selector object and retrieve related keywords.

  selector = {

      'ideaType': 'KEYWORD',

      'requestType': 'IDEAS'

  }

  selector['requestedAttributeTypes'] = [

      'KEYWORD_TEXT', 'SEARCH_VOLUME', 'CATEGORY_PRODUCTS_AND_SERVICES']

  offset = 0

  selector['paging'] = {

      'startIndex': str(offset),

      'numberResults': str(PAGE_SIZE)

  }

  selector['searchParameters'] = [{

      'xsi_type': 'RelatedToQuerySearchParameter',

      'queries': ['baseball']

  }]

  # # Language setting (optional).

  # selector['searchParameters'].append({

  #     # The ID can be found in the documentation:

  #     # https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/languagecodes

  #     'xsi_type': 'LanguageSearchParameter',

  #     'languages': [{'id': '1000'}]

  # })

  # # Network search parameter (optional)

  # selector['searchParameters'].append({

  #     'xsi_type': 'NetworkSearchParameter',

  #     'networkSetting': {

  #         'targetGoogleSearch': True,

  #         'targetSearchNetwork': False,

  #         'targetContentNetwork': False,

  #         'targetPartnerSearchNetwork': False

  #     }

  # })

  # # Use an existing ad group to generate ideas (optional)

  # if ad_group_id is not None:

  #   selector['searchParameters'].append({

  #       'xsi_type': 'SeedAdGroupIdSearchParameter',

  #       'adGroupId': ad_group_id

  #   })

  more_pages = True

  while more_pages:

    page = targeting_idea_service.get(selector)

    # Display results.

    if 'entries' in page:

      for result in page['entries']:

        attributes = {}

        for attribute in result['data']:

          attribute_value = attribute['value']

          if 'value' in attribute_value:

            attributes[attribute['key']] = attribute_value['value']

          else:

            attributes[attribute['key']] = []

        print ('Keyword with "%s" text and average monthly search volume '

               '"%s" was found with Products and Services categories: %s.'

               % (attributes['KEYWORD_TEXT'],

                  attributes['SEARCH_VOLUME'],

                  attributes['CATEGORY_PRODUCTS_AND_SERVICES']))

      print

    else:

      print 'No related keywords were found.'

    offset += PAGE_SIZE

    selector['paging']['startIndex'] = str(offset)

    more_pages = offset < int(page['totalNumEntries'])

if __name__ == '__main__':

  # Initialize client object.

  adwords_client = adwords.AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage()

  main(adwords_client)

AD_GROUP_ID = None

PAGE_SIZE = 100

def main(client, ad_group_id=None):

 # Initialize appropriate service.

 targeting_idea_service = client.GetService(

     'TargetingIdeaService', version='v201802')

  # Construct selector object and retrieve related keywords.

 selector = {

     'ideaType': 'KEYWORD',

     'requestType': 'IDEAS'

 }

  selector['requestedAttributeTypes'] = [

     'KEYWORD_TEXT', 'SEARCH_VOLUME', 'CATEGORY_PRODUCTS_AND_SERVICES']

  offset = 0

 selector['paging'] = {

     'startIndex': str(offset),

     'numberResults': str(PAGE_SIZE)

 }

  selector['searchParameters'] = [{

     'xsi_type': 'RelatedToQuerySearchParameter',

     'queries': ['baseball']

 }]

  # # Language setting (optional).

 # selector['searchParameters'].append({

 #     # The ID can be found in the documentation:

 #     # https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/languagecodes

 #     'xsi_type': 'LanguageSearchParameter',

 #     'languages': [{'id': '1000'}]

 # })

  # # Network search parameter (optional)

 # selector['searchParameters'].append({

 #     'xsi_type': 'NetworkSearchParameter',

 #     'networkSetting': {

 #         'targetGoogleSearch': True,

 #         'targetSearchNetwork': False,

 #         'targetContentNetwork': False,

 #         'targetPartnerSearchNetwork': False

 #     }

 # })

  # # Use an existing ad group to generate ideas (optional)

 # if ad_group_id is not None:

 #   selector['searchParameters'].append({

 #       'xsi_type': 'SeedAdGroupIdSearchParameter',

 #       'adGroupId': ad_group_id

 #   })

  more_pages = True

 while more_pages:

   page = targeting_idea_service.get(selector)

    # Display results.

   if 'entries' in page:

     for result in page['entries']:

       attributes = {}

       for attribute in result['data']:

         attribute_value = attribute['value']

         if 'value' in attribute_value:

           attributes[attribute['key']] = attribute_value['value']

         else:

           attributes[attribute['key']] = []

       print ('Keyword with "%s" text and average monthly search volume '

              '"%s" was found with Products and Services categories: %s.'

              % (attributes['KEYWORD_TEXT'],

                 attributes['SEARCH_VOLUME'],

                 attributes['CATEGORY_PRODUCTS_AND_SERVICES']))

     print

   else:

     print 'No related keywords were found.'

   offset += PAGE_SIZE

   selector['paging']['startIndex'] = str(offset)

   more_pages = offset < int(page['totalNumEntries'])

if __name__ == '__main__':

 # Initialize client object.

 adwords_client = adwords.AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage()

  main(adwords_client)

[gw0...@rmn.com]

One thing you can try is to provide client_customer_id. Although it is listed as optional in googleads.yaml, I found out when using targeting_idea_service that field is actually required.

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[tom.wa...@raisingit.com]

But it looks like you've forgotten to pass googleads.yaml to the script at all.

The penultimate line should be 

adwords_client = adwords.AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage("googleads.yaml") # or whatever the right path is

Let me know if you have any luck with this. I can interface with the TargetingIdeaService without any permissions issues or errors, but it often returns an empty result set. The API team has recognised that there is a problem with the Python library and I'm waiting to find out when they'll fix it.

Cheers,

Tom

[Teja Makani]

Hello Scott,

Were you able to resolve the issue? Please let me know if you are still facing the issue.

Regards,
Sai Teja, AdWords API Team.