At the moment I am doing a research to understand if copying a campaign is doable using only API: In my use case I want to clone a campaign changing only few parameters and compare the performance to the original one.
I am pretty new to AdWords system, but my idea is that copying a campaign is a normal operation: this is confirmed by the fact that this functionality is implemented in the console UI. I am only surprised that this functionality is not straightforward to implement using only API BTW I think that I have all the informations I need. Thx to everyone Emanuele On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 11:47:41 AM UTC+2, Zweitze wrote: > > I think an exact duplicate campaign is rather useless, but who am I to > judge. So, may I ask why you want to do this? > > Some ideas I can come up with: > > - You want to change a few settings in the cloned campaign and compare > the results. In that case, look at Campaign Drafts and Experiments > > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/campaign-drafts-experiments> > . > - You want to consolidate the campaigns of multiple accounts (say 8, > 30 or 200 accounts) into one master account. You should contact your > Google > representative. > - You want to create a snapshot every week or so, for backup purposes. > Try the AdWords product forum to see what others think. Note: if you want > the snapshot in the same account, again you can consider Campaign Drafts > and Experiments > > Also note that some things are downright impossible. For instance you > cannot create a video campaign, so you can't clone one either. > > Anyway, maybe it helps if you can offer the bigger picture. > > > On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 6:05:45 PM UTC+2, Emanuele Bragagnolo wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am implementing a feature to clone a whole AdWords campaign using only >> the API. Basically I want the same behavior of the CTRL+C and CTRL+V that >> is available in the AdWords UI >> >> with a deep copy of the campaign and of all the AdGroups contained in it. >> >> I've found this old thread >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/rErEluYfpAQ, but >> it's not indicated a clear solution for this use case >> >> My approach is to get a campaign using the CampaignService.get and then >> create a new campaign using the response as template and modifying only few >> fields >> >> Because I want to clone the whole campaign the response should contain >> all the data: where can I find a complete list of fields to include in the >> selector of the request? >> >> I am using this documentation >> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201702/CampaignService >> >> >> >> but it's is not straightforward to include the fields for the nested >> objects >> >> For the moment I have some problems because I cannot get the AdGroups >> list in the response >> >> Best regards, Emanuele >> > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/d87c787a-fc89-40be-b26f-3061c5858cdc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
