Multiple Offline User Data Jobs with “RUNNING” status for the same user list.

[Alexandra Nasekaylo]

Hello!

We are migrating to the new Google Ads API. We are using OfflineUserDataJob service. We have the following workflow:

1. Create a job: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/rest/reference/rest/v9/customers.offlineUserDataJobs/create

2. Add Operations to the created job: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/rest/reference/rest/v9/customers.offlineUserDataJobs/addOperations.

We are adding 10.000 operations as recommended https://developers.google.cn/google-ads/api/docs/conversions/upload-store-sales-transactions?authuser=0&hl=id#tips.

3. Run the job: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/rest/reference/rest/v9/customers.offlineUserDataJobs/run

We receive CONCURRENT_MODIFICATION error since we process these tasks in parallel and multiple processes are trying to modify the same user list simultaneously.

Reading the response https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/gdYUwIhh9eU/m/k8qaO0HSDgAJ it seemed to me we need to wait until one job is finished and only after that we should create a new job.

But I was able to create and run two jobs containing “create” operations and one job containing “remove” operations and didn’t receive any errors. I checked that my list had multiple jobs with “RUNNING” status.

My question is: Is it acceptable to create and run job 1, after some time create and run job 2 when the job 1 is still in “RUNNING” status? Is it acceptable to have multiple jobs in the “RUNNING” status for the same user list? 

Could you, please, help me with my question?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Alexandra,

You were lucky this time, but running more than one job on a user list concurrently is asking for a concurrent modification error to occur. If your removals are small amounts you may to do a remove with UserDataService. Feel free to get back to us.

Regards,

Aryeh Google Ads API Team

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[Alexandra Nasekaylo]

Thanks for the reply!

As we know UserDataService has a rate limit 1 QPS (60 requests per 60 seconds) per developer token. Is it possible to increase the limits (for example, to get a premium plan)?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Alexandra,

 

It's not possible for our team to increase rate limits. Also, there isn't a specific QPS rate limit associated with the UserDataService. A discussion about dealing with rate limits can be found on this page.

 

Let us know if you have any further clarification.

 

Regards,

Kevin Gil Google Ads API Team

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