Re: Clone a campaign using only API

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

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

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

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Emanuele, Unfortunately, I don't have a complete list of these dependencies. I addition to the guide on objects and its hierarchy, you could also check this

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Sreelakshmi Ok, I understand that the campaign can contain different objects. The point is that such objects are not returned in the CampaignService.get(). To figure out which objects are contained inside a campaign I need to query for example the AdGroupService, CampaignCriterionService,

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Emanuele, The objects within a given campaign could vary on a case by case basis. They can be adgroups, keywords or other criterion at campaign or adgroup levels, ads, extensions etc. This guide should help you get an

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Sreelakshmi Thank you for your quick reply I have a question about this point And the process will have to be repeated for all the nested objects within > the campaign and the adgroup. Those nested objects are only adgroups and criterion? If no, can you give me a list of all the nested

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Sreelakshmi Thank you for your quick reply I have a question about this point And the process will have to be repeated for all the nested objects within > the campaign and the adgroup. Those nested object are only adgroups and criterion? If no, can you give me a list of all the nested

Re: Clone a campaign using only API

Hi Emanuele, The AdWords API does not have a clone functionality. If you want to create a copy of any object (campaign, adgroup, keyword..), you can first use the get service of that specific object and then pass the retrieved object to the mutate call of the corresponding service with the

Clone a campaign using only API

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