Currently we are getting all of campaign negatives structure using CampaignCriterionService which we have updated to start using ReportDefinitionService by requesting CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT (DateRangeType set to TODAY), in the downloaded xml file we have noticed that the negative keyword text (negativeKeyword element) has special formatting based on match type, so an exact match type keywords have square brackets around them ( e.g negativeKeyword='[test19]' ), phrase match type keywords have quotes ( e.g negativeKeyword='"recipe"' ). We also retrieve keyword structure using reports and there we don't see this issue, upon further digging in forum I found out that few months ago some people saw similar issue in keyword performance report which looks like adwords api team acknowledged and fixed it...
https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=forum/adwords-api&showsearch=true&showpopout=true&parenturl=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fapis%2Fadwords%2Fforum.html#!searchin/adwords-api/phrase$20keyword$20in$20quotes/adwords-api/eu-ld7aKEwQ/tiWpQXfw3qgJ I hope someone can tell us if this is a issue or not... ReportId: 114314488 ReportType: CAMPAIGN_NEGATIVE_KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT DateRangeType: TODAY Thanks. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
