Enable Auto Tagging Via API

[eftikhar emad]

Hello, 

I was checking the offline conversion and enable auto tagging on demand for a specific account using API requests

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2998031?sjid=10638695237876582687-EU

all answers and docs points to a manual process to setup an account for auto tagging 

So is there any API/action I can use to enable it on the account using the API.

I was checking this 

https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v12/Customer#auto_tagging_enabled

and this mutate action 

https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/_WkLbYJ9wNQ/m/JnZhvZ6OfnsJ

But I am not sure if it will work or not, do you have sample code on changing the account setting , since I am using the ruby gem https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-ruby/tree/main/examples/account_management and I can't find the mutate service 

Thank you  

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Eftikhar,

Thank you for reaching out to us. In order for us to assist you further, could you please confirm your use case that you want to achieve via API? Do you want to do the following?

• Upload offline conversions
• Set the Google Ads account auto tagging preference to Yes base on specific/preferred conditions

This message is in relation to case "ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2nRig3:ref"

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

[eftikhar emad]

Hi, 

I am trying to make the whole process initiated by system, through API request , so 

- I need to check if the account enabled for auto tagging or not

- if not I need to enable it (this what I am asking about its API in ruby)

- check if there is offline conversion action 

- if no action found I will created new also using the api 

the bottleneck in the flow is, can I update the autoTagging flag using and api ? 

if there is an example on update customer attribute in Ruby It would help a lot , mutate CustomerService https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v13/CustomerService

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Eftikhar, 

Thank you for getting back to us.

To answer your concern, in Google Ads API perspective, If the click conversions are uploaded in the Google Ads UI, auto-tagging is automatically enabled so your website will start receiving the GCLID as a URL parameter.  

However, this does not occur when using the Google Ads API, so you should enable auto-tagging by updating the auto_tagging_enabled attribute of Customer. You may check the CustomerService to update the auto_tagging.

On the other hand, I am afraid that there is no sample code that we can provide for now to update customer. However, you may also reach out to the client library owners of Ruby instead in this link https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-ruby/issues.

Reference links:

• Google Ads API - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/start
• auto-tagging - https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/1752125
• auto_tagging_enabled - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v14/customer#customer.auto_tagging_enabled
• Customer - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v14/Customer
• CustomerService - https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v14/CustomerService

[eftikhar emad]

Thank you for your support.