Simple call to enable/pause ALL campaigns in an account

[Borba73]

I am trying to create a simple process that will either enable/disable all my campaigns based on the out put of a database query i run against our system.
I have never worked with adwords api so im at a loss even where to start or if google will even allow me to do what im requesting.

Basically, it would be a scheduled process probably using my servers task manager.
I would query our db and based on the result issue a call to the api to pause/enable the campaigns.

I would schedule this process to run at regular intervals since i want the accounts to run based on a unique set of criteria specific to my business.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

[Evgeniy Bogdanov]

Hi.

Which programming language do you use?

Also may be better for you will be using Targeting for ad groups? You could setup it very flexible once time.

For a big numbers of campaigns this will save you a lof of money.

Regards,

Evgeniy.

[Borba73]

I would prefer to have a VBScript that can do this.  Im not certain i need targeting for ad groups since i need to stop/start ALL campaigns in the account.

Dejan

[Kevin Winter]

Hi Dejan,

  This code example demonstrates updating a campaign's Budget using VB DotNet: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-dotnet/source/browse/trunk/examples/adwords/vb/v201109/BasicOperations/UpdateCampaign.vb

You could adapt this code example to update the Campaign's status to paused: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/latest/CampaignService.Campaign#status

- Kevin Winter

AdWords API Team