Difference between google ads api and UI data!

[Nicolas Nunes]

Hello everything is fine? I would like to answer a question, we currently have automations running daily d-1 pulling data from the Google Ads API, and we see discrepancies in the cost of campaigns from cents to reais (in my case I'm from Brazil) which ends up causing an incorrect value in the consolidated of the month. I noticed that the discrepancy does not occur if we work with d-3 only with d-1, could you tell me what it could be?

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[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team. 

By reviewing your concern, I understand that while retrieving the campaign cost data you have observed discrepancies between the information displayed in the Google Ads user interface and the data retrieved through the Google Ads API. Kindly note that the Google Ads API mirrors the Google Ads UI. We would like to specify first the following when comparing the value of the Google Ads UI and the Google Ads API.

• The segments and fields of the API and UI should be the same.
• The date range should also be the same.
• Comparing the API and UI at the same level as possible.

With that, please provide us with the complete API logs (request and response with request-id and request header) generated along with the uncropped UI screenshot of the Google Ads account of where you are facing this issue to assist you better.

If you are using a client library and haven't enabled the logging yet, I would request you to enable logging for the specific client library that you are using. You can refer to the guides Java, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby or Perl to enable logging at your end. For REST interface requests, you can enable logging via the curl command by using the -i flag.

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Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team

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