Hi Google Ads API team,
Business need
I’m building a reporting tool that lists metrics (impressions, clicks,
conversions, cost, etc.) per audience segment.
For every segment we must show the same friendly name the Google Ads UI
displays.
Current workflow (API v20)
1. Metrics per audience criterion
```gaql
SELECT
ad_group_criterion.criterion_id,
metrics.impressions,
metrics.clicks,
metrics.conversions,
metrics.cost_micros
FROM ad_group_audience_view
WHERE campaign.id = <CAMPAIGN_ID>
AND segments.date BETWEEN 'YYYY-MM-DD' AND 'YYYY-MM-DD'
```
2. Attempt to map each `criterion_id` to a label
```gaql
SELECT
ad_group_criterion.criterion_id,
ad_group_criterion.user_list.user_list,
ad_group_criterion.display_name
FROM ad_group_criterion
WHERE campaign.id = <CAMPAIGN_ID>
AND ad_group_criterion.type = AUDIENCE
```
3. Translate numeric topic IDs (placeholders like “Audience #123 …”)
```gaql
SELECT
vertical_constant.resource_name,
vertical_constant.name
FROM vertical_constant
WHERE vertical_constant.resource_name IN ('verticalConstants/123', ...)
```
Processing logic
• use `display_name` when it’s non-empty
• look up user lists by resource name to get their `.name`
• replace “Audience #<n>” with the returned `vertical_constant.name`
• tidy Google’s auto-generated strings `AdGroupPersona_<hash>_<ts>`
Problem
After all steps many criteria still show only “Audience #<ID>”.
Those same criteria display a friendly name in the Google Ads UI.
What we tried (and failed)
• Adding `ad_group_criterion.user_interest`, `.custom_audience`,
`.combined_audience` to SELECT → GAQL error: “field may not be used in
SELECT clause”.
• Querying `user_interest`, `custom_audience`, `combined_audience` tables
directly – we have only numeric `criterion_id`, no resource names.
• Granting “Audience Manager” UI permissions is not possible for every
customer.
Questions
1. Is there any supported way to convert **every** audience `criterion_id`
to the same human-readable label the UI shows, especially when
`display_name` is just “Audience #<ID>”?
2. Do the orphan numeric IDs map to an internal taxonomy that isn’t exposed
via `vertical_constant`? If yes, what fallback should we show?
3. Are there other fields/services (GoogleAdsFieldService, etc.) that let
us resolve names for user-interest, custom-audience, or combined-audience
criteria programmatically?
Thanks for any guidance—our users need meaningful audience names and we’d
like to avoid scraping or static mapping tables.
Thank you.
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