(Historical) average targets for bid strategies

[Pascal van Dooren]

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to retrieve historical bid strategy targets through the API. I've tried the bidding_strategy report with the date segment applied, but this will just return the current target for all dates. This data is available in the UI, at least for portfolio bid strategies. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Pascal

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Pascal,

I'm from the Google Ads API Team.

If you're referring to campaign bid strategies, you may try using Change Event service to retrieve the changes in campaigns and see if you're able to retrieve the data that you're looking for. You may utilize the query builder tool for the change_event resource to quickly build valid report queries in the API.

Let us know how it goes. If you are unable to retrieve what you are looking for, please provide a screenshot of the data you would like to retrieve via API as well as the complete request and response logs with request ID so we can further investigate. You may send it to us via Reply privately to author option.

Links in this email:
Change Event service - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/change-event
request - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#request
response - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#response
request ID - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request-id
query builder - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v13/change_event_query_builder

Regards,

Google Ads API Team

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[Pascal van Dooren]

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to me. The change_event report does offer some of the required insights, however it only allows date to be retrieved up to 30 days ago. I'd like to go back further in time, preferably a few months/a year.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Pascal,

Thank you for your response.

With regard to your concern for retrieving more than 30 days ago, can you confirm if you already tried the change status? It mentioned that it provides a means to keep track of which resources have changed within an account over a given time period. It also indicated that, the query must filter on date within the past 90 days (and optionally time), and must include a LIMIT clause set to at most 10,000 results. You may utilize the query builder tool for the change_status resource to quickly build valid report queries in the API.

As mentioned previously, if you are unable to retrieve what you are looking for, please provide a screenshot of the data you would like to retrieve via API as well as the complete request and response logs with request ID so we can further investigate. You may send it to us via Reply privately to author option.

Reference links:

• change status : https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/change-status
• query builder for change status : https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v13/change_status_query_builder

• request - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#request
• response - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/field-service#response
• request ID - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/concepts/call-structure#request-id

Regards,