Thanks for the excellent answer!
This is the solution I was looking for. A thing like that is necessary
to avoid buffer overruns, memory exhaustion etc.
However, in my personal repository I will extend my GAQL parser for
transpiling a corresponding COUNT clause into the SearchSettings
<https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v21/SearchSettings>
option you described.
Best regards
Am 01.09.2025 um 08:07 schrieb Google Ads API Forum Advisor:
Hi,
Please note that you can't get a row count before a GAQL search using
a COUNT() function like you would in SQL. It's not a supported
feature, and it's not possible to submit a feature request for it.
However, you can use the _return_total_results_count_
<https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v21/SearchSettings#:~:text=Default%20is%20false.-,return_total_results_count,-bool>
field to get a similar result. By setting this field to True in your
search request, the Google Ads API will return the total number of
rows that match your query, regardless of any LIMIT clause. This field
is set to False by default.
Thanks,
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