KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT not returning adgroup level negative keywords

[t.k...@social-mining.com]

I'm trying to download a list of ad group level negative keywords from the reporting API. Sending the following selector:

<reportDefinition>

  <selector>

    <fields>CampaignId</fields>

    <fields>AdGroupId</fields>

    <fields>Id</fields>

    <fields>Criteria</fields>

    <fields>KeywordMatchType</fields>

    <fields>IsNegative</fields>

    <fields>Status</fields>

    <fields>CriteriaDestinationUrl</fields>

    <fields>CpcBid</fields>

    <fields>CpcBidSource</fields>

    <fields>CampaignStatus</fields>

    <fields>AdGroupStatus</fields>

    <fields>FinalUrls</fields>

    <fields>FinalMobileUrls</fields>

    <predicates>

      <field>Status</field>

      <operator>NOT_EQUALS</operator>

      <values>REMOVED</values>

    </predicates>

    <predicates>

      <field>CampaignStatus</field>

      <operator>NOT_EQUALS</operator>

      <values>REMOVED</values>

    </predicates>

    <predicates>

      <field>AdGroupStatus</field>

      <operator>NOT_EQUALS</operator>

      <values>REMOVED</values>

    </predicates>

    <dateRange>

      <min>20150712</min>

      <max>20150713</max>

    </dateRange>

  </selector>

  <reportName>KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT,CampaignId,AdGroupId,Id,Criteria,KeywordMatchType,IsNegative,Status,CriteriaDestinationUrl,CpcBid,CpcBidSource,CampaignStatus,AdGroupStatus,FinalUrls,FinalMobileUrls</reportName>

  <reportType>KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT</reportType>

  <dateRangeType>CUSTOM_DATE</dateRangeType>

  <downloadFormat>GZIPPED_CSV</downloadFormat>

</reportDefinition>

However, this selector does not return any negative keywords, even though the only ad group on this account has negative keywords (visible in the adwords web interface.) At first I thought it might be something to do with segmentation, but none of the fields are segments.

As far as I can tell this worked as expected in version v201502 of the API.

I also tried ALL_TIME and without any predicates, but nothing seems to work.

[t.k...@social-mining.com]

I also tried to set the includeZeroImpressions header to true, but that doesn't help either.

[Anthony Madrigal]

HI,

My suggestion is to add the predicate "IsNegative IN [true,false]". This should add all keywords regardless of whether they are negative or not. 

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords API Team

[t.k...@social-mining.com]

Works like a charm, thanks.

[GD]

Should this be considered normal (undocumented) behavior, or is it a bug that will be fixed?

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

This was an intentional change made to make the DISPLAY_KEYWORD_PERFORMANCE_REPORT and KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT consistent with the user interface. Going forward, those reports will not return rows with IsNegative = true by default, but you can specifically request them using a predicate as Anthony suggested.

We're in the process of updating the reporting documentation to clarify this behavior.

Best regards,

Josh, AdWords API Team