Get search volumes for past 12 months with new google-ads API

[Ed Ng]

Hi,

I have a question on using the new Ads API to pull monthly search volumes for past 12 months.  According to the documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/release-notes#keyword_planning), the old way of pulling search volumes data using TargetingIdeaService is replaced by KeywordPlanService.GenerateHistoricalMetrics.  With the new Ads API, instead of getting past 12 months of search volumes per keyword per month, it returns a single search volume value (appears to be an overall average of last 12 months) per keyword only.  Does anyone know any ways to get keyword monthly search volumes for past 12 months with the new Ads API?  

The client is written in Java btw.  I did follow documentation to create keyword plan > campain > ad group > keywords before calling GenerateHistoricalMetrics and I don't see any config in the API that lets you specify period for historical metrics and monthly aggregation.  

We've been using the Adwords API version v201806 for search volumes for a while until it broke recently with an UNSUPPORTED_VERSION error.  We really need to restore this service to function as before.  Any helps will be greatly appreciated!

-Ed

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi Ed,

Unfortunately, it's currently not possible to segment the data by month. The historical metrics will only return the average monthly searches for the past 12 months.

Regards,

Anthony

Google Ads API Team

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