Generate Historical Metrics

[Oliver Hayman]

Hi there,

I'm trying to write a script that will query the average monthly search volumes from the Google Ads API, and store them.

However, the issue I'm encountering is that whilst I can get data back from the API, it doesn't give me search volumes for every keyword I request with about 10-15% of them missing from the response.

I'm not sure whether it's just that it's grouping similar keywords together and only returning me data on one of them, or what the issue is, but if anyone could shed some light on it (or have any fixes) that'd be really helpful.

I've tried both KeywordPlanService.GenerateHistoricalMetrics and KeywordPlanIdeaService.GenerateKeywordIdeas methods - and both seem to encounter this same issue.

Is there any way to get around it? The previous AdWords API would simply return the search volumes for all the keywords you entered regardless.

Many thanks,
Oliver

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello Oliver,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

So our team can better check on the issue you've encountered, could you share with us the complete logs (request and response with request-id) generated?

In addition, you've mentioned that the previous AdWords API would simply return the search volumes for all the keywords. Could you also share how you were able to get those via the AdWords API? Could you also share the complete SOAP logs (request and response with requestId)?

Please send the requested details via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Regards,

Mark Kevin Albios Google Ads API Team

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