Unable to see any documentation on Updating the responsive search ad and expanded text ads in Search Campaign Using Google Ad Words API

[gagan gupta]

Hi Team,

I was trying to Update the responsive search ad and expanded text ads in Search Campaign Using Google Ad Words API.

But Unable to find any solution in this regard.

Please help.

Thanks,

Gagan 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Gagan,

You can update ads using the AdService. You can find our guide on how to mutate the ads and which ad types support them. You will be able to update your expanded text ads, but not your responsive search ads.

Regards,
Anthony
Google Ads API Team

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[Dan D]

Anthony,

That's great for Google AdWords API even there's even a nice example here  for it.  But what about us who took the time and effort to move over to the new Google Ads API.  There is no google example of how to update an Expanded Text Ad.

Every time I try, I'm getting:

Request with ID 'krnzj15jjMwJnIO8jhwQhg' has failed.

Google Ads failure details:

request_error: Field 'ad.expanded_text_ad.description' cannot be modified by 'UPDATE' operation.

request_error: Field 'ad.expanded_text_ad.headline_part1' cannot be modified by 'UPDATE' operation.

request_error: Field 'ad.expanded_text_ad.headline_part2' cannot be modified by 'UPDATE' operation.

request_error: Field 'ad.final_urls' cannot be modified by 'UPDATE' operation.


It would be great if the team could add to the Examples "Updating an expanded text ad"  any help in this direction for Google Ad API would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Dan,

Examples on how to update ads for Google Ads API can be found in our client library examples. For example, here is the code for updating ads in Java.

Cheers,

[Dan D]

Anthony,

Really love how you guys quickly respond - so much respect for that!

So, your answer pointed me in the right direction and I was able to find what I was looking for since I'm using the PHP Lib.  

For those of you (like me) that searched and coded for a ton of hours, hopefully this helps you for the PHP lib:

https://github.com/googleads/google-ads-php/blob/master/examples/BasicOperations/UpdateExpandedTextAd.php  

Thanks again,

Dan