Hi Johnny, I can confirm that adding this specific placement URL (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2018/01/09/the-great-social-security-benefits-debate-take-it-early-or-wait/) will generate an error in the AdWords API. However, when I also tried to add this placement URL in the AdWords UI against test account, this also generated a "Placement URLs must be provided in a valid URL format" error. Therefore, this issue is more on the AdWords product level as this placement URL is not acceptable in both AdWords API and UI.
You can refer to this product forum post <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Advanced-Features/Placement-URLs-must-be-provided-in-a-valid-URL-format/td-p/307407> that talks about this specific error. Additionally, if you have further clarifications on why this placement URL is returning an error, you can post in the AdWords Community Forum <https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Google-AdWords/ct-p/Google_AdWords#> for better assistance. Thanks, Vincent AdWords API Team -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/888c3189-bd04-49a9-8eab-b53f59bb9f31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
