Hi Prashant, I don't know of any changes recently in the API's Targeting Idea Service that would cause that to happen. I also gave this a try in v201502, and it's the same behavior. Would you happen to have an old log that shows a case where you were receiving empty results?
Cheers, Nadine, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 4:15:48 PM UTC-4, Prashant Nagar wrote: > > Hi, > Recently I have started seeing that output returned by Targeting Idea > Service (<requestType>STATS</requestType>) doesn't match the input count. > Previously, the output count and input count always used to be same even if > there was not data for some specific keywords. > Below is the soap request and response. Can you please advice if there has > been a recent change in api that I might have missed? or if there is > something else that I need to do.. > In the below example if you will see that I am giving keywords which are > associated with Canada, however I am passing location as USA. Even then I > am very sure that previously it used to return me results with empty > values. Input count was always equal to output count. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <soapenv:Header> > <ns1:RequestHeader soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns1=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <ns2:clientCustomerId...../> > <ns3:developerToken ..../> > <ns4:userAgent .../> > <ns5:validateOnly xmlns:ns5=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506 > ">false</ns5:validateOnly> > <ns6:partialFailure xmlns:ns6=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506 > ">true</ns6:partialFailure> > </ns1:RequestHeader> > </soapenv:Header> > <soapenv:Body> > <get xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <selector> > <searchParameters > xsi:type="ns7:RelatedToQuerySearchParameter" > xmlns:ns7=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <ns7:queries>+morkie +puppies +classifieds +in > +toronto</ns7:queries> > <ns7:queries>kijiji ottawa houses sale</ns7:queries> > </searchParameters> > <searchParameters xsi:type="ns8:LanguageSearchParameter" > xmlns:ns8=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <ns8:languages> > <ns9:id xmlns:ns9=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506";>1000</ns9:id> > </ns8:languages> > </searchParameters> > <searchParameters xsi:type="ns10:LocationSearchParameter" > xmlns:ns10=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <ns10:locations> > <ns11:id xmlns:ns11=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506";>2840</ns11:id> > </ns10:locations> > </searchParameters> > <ideaType>KEYWORD</ideaType> > <requestType>STATS</requestType> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>KEYWORD_TEXT</requestedAttributeTypes> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>SEARCH_VOLUME</requestedAttributeTypes> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>AVERAGE_CPC</requestedAttributeTypes> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>COMPETITION</requestedAttributeTypes> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</requestedAttributeTypes> > > <requestedAttributeTypes>CATEGORY_PRODUCTS_AND_SERVICES</requestedAttributeTypes> > <paging> > <ns12:startIndex xmlns:ns12=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506";>0</ns12:startIndex> > <ns13:numberResults xmlns:ns13=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506";>2 > </ns13:numberResults> > </paging> > </selector> > </get> > </soapenv:Body> > </soapenv:Envelope> > > > <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > <soap:Header> > <ResponseHeader xmlns:ns2=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506"; > xmlns=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <ns2:requestId>00052201ef2d72700a4c0c871500e68d</ns2:requestId> > <ns2:serviceName>AccountService</ns2:serviceName> > <ns2:methodName>get</ns2:methodName> > <ns2:operations>0</ns2:operations> > <ns2:responseTime>391</ns2:responseTime> > </ResponseHeader> > </soap:Header> > <soap:Body> > <getResponse xmlns:ns2=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201506"; > xmlns=" > https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201506";> > <rval> > <totalNumEntries>0</totalNumEntries> > </rval> > </getResponse> > </soap:Body> > </soap:Envelope> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. 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