Find objects created with "Recommendations Auto-Apply"

[TommyTek]

Hello,

  is there a way, with APIs, to find ads or keywords that were created by the "Recommendations Auto-Apply" process?

We've many ads created with "Recommendations Auto-Apply" that we want to delete, but we're struggling at finding them (we've a very large accounts with millions of ads).

Using https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v11/change_event cannot work because I need to identify very old ads too (not only those created in the last 30 days)

Any help is much appreciated.

Tnx

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Tommy,

Thank you for reaching out to our API support team.

If you want to get all the recommendations then you need to include all the fields on the recommendation reports. However, please note that these are the only recommendation types that are currently supported in the Google Ads API.


Best,

Anthony Cyril Google Ads API Team

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[Tommaso Trani]

Hi,

  I do not want to get all the recommendations, I want to get the ads created with recommendations.

I think that your suggestion can't work. Am I wrong?

Thank you

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Tommaso,

Thank you for the reply.

You may indeed use the change_event report filtering the change_event.client_type to GOOGLE_ADS_RECOMMENDATIONS (please note that there’s no filtering of Recommendations Auto-Apply but you may use the GOOGLE_ADS_RECOMMENDATIONS enum instead to still see this). However, I’m afraid that this is indeed only for those created in the last 30 days and we do not have other report to find the ads or keywords that were created by the "Recommendations Auto-Apply"

Best regards,

Heidi Google Ads API Team

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[Tommaso Trani]

Hi,

I know that I might use that, but it doesn't  return events older than 30 days.

It can't work for me to get all the ads created automatically.

Any other option?

Tnx

[Mat]

Hi Tommy,

You may find ad_group_ad.ad.added_by_google_ads helpful. But since we don't use to opt into auto-accept ad recommendations, you'll have to test on your end, if this resource also includes auto-accepted ad recommendations. The description is unclear on this point (and not all descriptions are true).

Sadly, there does not seem to be a similar resource on the keyword or ad_group.criterion level.

Looking ahead, I'd recommend to fetch the change_event or at least the change_status data on a daily basis and store them in a database on your end.

Regards

Mat