Missing country_code in ProductBiddingCategoryInfo

[Saurav Shanu]

Hi,

We noticed that in the googleads v13 the country_code field has been removed from the ProductBiddingCategoryInfo . In the upgrade to v13 document, it doesn't say much about why this field was removed. We use the country_code in our code at several places. May I know what would be the substitute for this field, if there's any?

Thanks
Saurav

[Saurav Shanu]

Hi team,

Can anyone help me with this?

[Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum]

Re-posting the last inquiry (https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/p5UX2lFwPWg) from the forum as it wasn't routed to our support queue.

Regards,
Google Ads API Team

[Saurav Shanu]

Hi,

Did anyone get a chance to look at this?

[Saurav Shanu]

Hi,

Can someone please respond to this? Or, delegate it to someone who has some knowledge about it?

Thank you!

[Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum]

Hi,

Thank you for raising this concern to our team and for the patience.

Regarding this, it appears that this is specifically about the country_code fields under the ProductBiddingCategoryInfo. Please note that ProductBiddingCategoryInfo.country_code was removed from the v13 of the Google Ads API. You may check this release note (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/release-notes#shopping) where you can see this update.

Regards,

Google Ads API Team

[Saurav Shanu]

Thank you for the reply. We already have this information as mentioned in the first message. What we wanted to know is if there's an alternate field which we can use for getting the country code?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Saurav,

Thank you for your reply. 

Allow me to raise this concern with the rest of our team, and we will provide updates shortly.

Best regards,

Google Ads API Team

 

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[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Saurav,

I'm a developer relations engineer jumping in to help out here.

The removal of this field is related to broader changes that stemmed from Merchant Center. We published a blog post describing the changes back in August of last year.

In my research, I haven't been able to determine whether there is a way to retrieve this country code, since criteria can now to associated with multiple countries. However if you could send me the ID for a Campaign where you'd like to get the country_code, I can try to dig around to see if that information exists in another place in the API.

Thanks,

Ben Karl Google Ads API Team

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