Hello Crosby,

It is only possible to retrieve a deleted criterion data if it had any 
impressions before it's deleted. If it had zero impressions, once deleted 
it is completely removed from the system.


-Danial, AdWords API Team.


On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:44:52 AM UTC+4, Crosby 
(StoneTempleConsulting) wrote:
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> While I have a workaround, I didn't solve this the conventional way... 
> (see below)
>
> I would very much appreciate anyone's assistance.
>
> What I am trying to do is use the reporting service to get a complete 
> snapshot of my account's keywords, e.g.: all active, paused, deleted 
> keywords.
> I have to imagine this is quite possible (hopefully without resorting to 
> API units?)
>
> Part of the reason I am so eager on this is that the 
> SEARCH_QUERY_PERFORMANCE_REPORT is returning AdGroup_ID/Keyword_ID combos 
> that I can't get details on (databases tend to complain when an ID points 
> at nothing...)
>
> My workaround is to pull the below report over the lifetime of my data. 
> (i.e.: set the start date to 2 years ago...)  It works. But YUCK.
>
> Here we go then, any suggestions or edits much appreciated.
> (For the record, I have tried adding/removing fields, etc.
> The solution will either be stupid-obvious or kinda-crafty...???)
>
>       ReportDefinition definition = new ReportDefinition();
>  
>       definition.reportName = "Adwords_Keywords";
>       definition.reportType = 
> ReportDefinitionReportType.KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT;
>       definition.downloadFormat = DownloadFormat.TSV;
>       definition.dateRangeType = ReportDefinitionDateRangeType.CUSTOM_DATE;
>  
>       // http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/reports.html
>       Selector selector = new Selector();
>       selector.fields = new string[] {
>             "AdGroupId"
>             ,"Id"
>             ,"IsNegative"
>             ,"KeywordMatchType"
>             ,"KeywordText"
>             ,"Status"
>             ,"ApprovalStatus"
>             ,"QualityScore"
>             ,"MaxCpc"
>       };
>  
>       Predicate statusPredicate = new Predicate();
>       statusPredicate.field = "Status";
>       statusPredicate.@operator = PredicateOperator.IN;
>       statusPredicate.values = new string[] { "DELETED" };
>  
>       selector.predicates = new Predicate[] { statusPredicate };
>  
>       selector.dateRange = dates;
>       definition.selector = selector;
>       definition.includeZeroImpressions = true;
>       bool inMicros = false;
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ~Crosby
>

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