Miscellaneous Samples

The code samples below provide examples of miscellaneous management functions available in the AdWords API. Client Library.

Get all image assets

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright 2018 Google LLC
#
# License:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#           you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#           You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#           distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#           WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
#           implied.
#           See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#           limitations under the License.
#
# This code example gets all image assets. To upload an image asset,
# run upload_image_asset.rb.

require 'adwords_api'

def get_all_image_assets()
  # AdwordsApi::Api will read a config file from ENV['HOME']/adwords_api.yml
  # when called without parameters.
  adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

  # To enable logging of SOAP requests, set the log_level value to 'DEBUG' in
  # the configuration file or provide your own logger:
  # adwords.logger = Logger.new('adwords_xml.log')

  asset_srv = adwords.service(:AssetService, API_VERSION)

  # Create the selector and filter for image assets only.
  selector = {
    :fields => ['AssetName', 'AssetStatus', 'ImageFileSize', 'ImageWidth',
        'ImageHeight', 'ImageFullSizeUrl'],
    :predicates => [
        {:field => 'AssetSubtype', :operator => 'IN', :values => ['IMAGE']}
    ],
    :paging => {
        :start_index => 0,
        :number_results => PAGE_SIZE
    }
  }

  # Set initial values.
  offset, page = 0, {}

  begin
    # Get the image assets.
    page = asset_srv.get(selector)

    # Display the results
    if page[:entries]
      page[:entries].each_with_index do |entry, i|
        full_dimensions = entry[:full_size_info]
        puts ('%s) Image asset with id = "%s", name = "%s" ' +
            'and status = "%s" was found.') %
            [i+1, entry[:asset_id], entry[:asset_name], entry[:asset_status]]
        puts '  Size is %sx%s and asset URL is %s.' %
            [full_dimensions[:image_width],
            full_dimensions[:image_height],
            full_dimensions[:image_url]]
      end
      # Increment values to request the next page.
      offset += PAGE_SIZE
      selector[:paging][:start_index] = offset
    end
  end while page[:total_num_entries] > offset

  if page.include?(:total_num_entries)
    puts "\tFound %d entries." % page[:total_num_entries]
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  API_VERSION = :v201809
  PAGE_SIZE = 500

  begin
    get_all_image_assets()

  # Authorization error.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::OAuth2VerificationRequired => e
    puts "Authorization credentials are not valid. Edit adwords_api.yml for " +
        "OAuth2 client ID and secret and run misc/setup_oauth2.rb example " +
        "to retrieve and store OAuth2 tokens."
    puts "See this wiki page for more details:\n\n  " +
        'https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/wiki/OAuth2'

  # HTTP errors.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::HttpError => e
    puts "HTTP Error: %s" % e

  # API errors.
  rescue AdwordsApi::Errors::ApiException => e
    puts "Message: %s" % e.message
    puts 'Errors:'
    e.errors.each_with_index do |error, index|
      puts "\tError [%d]:" % (index + 1)
      error.each do |field, value|
        puts "\t\t%s: %s" % [field, value]
      end
    end
  end
end

get_all_image_assets.rb

Get all images and videos

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright:: Copyright 2011, Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
#
# License:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#           you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#           You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#           distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#           WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
#           implied.
#           See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#           limitations under the License.
#
# This code example gets all videos and images. Use the Google Ads website to
# upload new videos. To upload an image, run upload_image.rb.

require 'adwords_api'

def get_all_images_and_videos()
  # AdwordsApi::Api will read a config file from ENV['HOME']/adwords_api.yml
  # when called without parameters.
  adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

  # To enable logging of SOAP requests, set the log_level value to 'DEBUG' in
  # the configuration file or provide your own logger:
  # adwords.logger = Logger.new('adwords_xml.log')

  media_srv = adwords.service(:MediaService, API_VERSION)

  # Get all the images and videos.
  selector = {
    :fields => ['MediaId', 'Height', 'Width', 'MimeType', 'Urls'],
    :ordering => [
      {:field => 'MediaId', :sort_order => 'ASCENDING'}
    ],
    :predicates => [
      {:field => 'Type', :operator => 'IN', :values => ['IMAGE', 'VIDEO']}
    ],
    :paging => {
      :start_index => 0,
      :number_results => PAGE_SIZE
    }
  }

  # Set initial values.
  offset, page = 0, {}

  begin
    page = media_srv.get(selector)
    if page[:entries]
      page[:entries].each do |entry|
        full_dimensions = entry[:dimensions]['FULL']
        puts "Entry ID %d with dimensions %dx%d and MIME type is '%s'" %
            [entry[:media_id], full_dimensions[:height],
             full_dimensions[:width], entry[:mime_type]]
      end
      # Increment values to request the next page.
      offset += PAGE_SIZE
      selector[:paging][:start_index] = offset
    end
  end while page[:total_num_entries] > offset

  if page.include?(:total_num_entries)
    puts "\tFound %d entries." % page[:total_num_entries]
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  API_VERSION = :v201809
  PAGE_SIZE = 500

  begin
    get_all_images_and_videos()

  # Authorization error.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::OAuth2VerificationRequired => e
    puts "Authorization credentials are not valid. Edit adwords_api.yml for " +
        "OAuth2 client ID and secret and run misc/setup_oauth2.rb example " +
        "to retrieve and store OAuth2 tokens."
    puts "See this wiki page for more details:\n\n  " +
        'https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/wiki/OAuth2'

  # HTTP errors.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::HttpError => e
    puts "HTTP Error: %s" % e

  # API errors.
  rescue AdwordsApi::Errors::ApiException => e
    puts "Message: %s" % e.message
    puts 'Errors:'
    e.errors.each_with_index do |error, index|
      puts "\tError [%d]:" % (index + 1)
      error.each do |field, value|
        puts "\t\t%s: %s" % [field, value]
      end
    end
  end
end

get_all_images_and_videos.rb

Upload an image

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright:: Copyright 2011, Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
#
# License:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#           you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#           You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#           distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#           WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
#           implied.
#           See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#           limitations under the License.
#
# This example uploads an image. To get images, run get_all_images.rb.

require 'adwords_api'
require 'base64'

def upload_image()
  # AdwordsApi::Api will read a config file from ENV['HOME']/adwords_api.yml
  # when called without parameters.
  adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

  # To enable logging of SOAP requests, set the log_level value to 'DEBUG' in
  # the configuration file or provide your own logger:
  # adwords.logger = Logger.new('adwords_xml.log')

  media_srv = adwords.service(:MediaService, API_VERSION)

  # This utility method retrieves the contents of a URL using all of the config
  # options provided to the Api object.
  image_url = 'https://goo.gl/3b9Wfh'
  image_data = AdsCommon::Http.get(image_url, adwords.config)
  base64_image_data = Base64.encode64(image_data)

  # Create image.
  image = {
    # The 'xsi_type' field allows you to specify the xsi:type of the object
    # being created. It's only necessary when you must provide an explicit
    # type that the client library can't infer.
    :xsi_type => 'Image',
    :data => base64_image_data,
    :type => 'IMAGE'
  }

  # Upload image.
  response = media_srv.upload([image])
  if response and !response.empty?
    ret_image = response.first
    full_dimensions = ret_image[:dimensions]['FULL']
    puts ("Image with ID %d, dimensions %dx%d and MIME type '%s' uploaded " +
        "successfully.") % [ret_image[:media_id], full_dimensions[:height],
         full_dimensions[:width], ret_image[:mime_type]]
  else
    puts 'No images uploaded.'
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  API_VERSION = :v201809

  begin
    upload_image()

  # Authorization error.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::OAuth2VerificationRequired => e
    puts "Authorization credentials are not valid. Edit adwords_api.yml for " +
        "OAuth2 client ID and secret and run misc/setup_oauth2.rb example " +
        "to retrieve and store OAuth2 tokens."
    puts "See this wiki page for more details:\n\n  " +
        'https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/wiki/OAuth2'

  # HTTP errors.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::HttpError => e
    puts "HTTP Error: %s" % e

  # API errors.
  rescue AdwordsApi::Errors::ApiException => e
    puts "Message: %s" % e.message
    puts 'Errors:'
    e.errors.each_with_index do |error, index|
      puts "\tError [%d]:" % (index + 1)
      error.each do |field, value|
        puts "\t\t%s: %s" % [field, value]
      end
    end
  end
end

upload_image.rb

Upload an image asset

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright 2018 Google LLC
#
# License:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#           you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#           You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#           distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#           WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
#           implied.
#           See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#           limitations under the License.
#
# This code example uploads an image asset. To get images,
# run get_all_image_assets.rb.

require 'adwords_api'

def upload_image_asset()
  # AdwordsApi::Api will read a config file from ENV['HOME']/adwords_api.yml
  # when called without parameters.
  adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

  # To enable logging of SOAP requests, set the log_level value to 'DEBUG' in
  # the configuration file or provide your own logger:
  # adwords.logger = Logger.new('adwords_xml.log')

  asset_srv = adwords.service(:AssetService, API_VERSION)

  # The image needs to be in a BASE64 encoded form
  image_url = 'https://goo.gl/3b9Wfh'
  image_data = AdsCommon::Http.get(image_url, adwords.config)
  image_data_base64 = Base64.encode64(image_data)

  # Create the image asset.
  image_asset = {
    :xsi_type => 'ImageAsset',
    # Optional: Provide a unique friendly name to identify your asset. If you
    # specify the assetName field, then both the asset name and the image being
    # uploaded should be unique, and should not match another ACTIVE asset in
    # this customer account.
    # :asset_name => 'Jupiter Trip %s' % (Time.new.to_f * 1000).to_i,
    :image_data => image_data_base64
  }

  # Create the operation.
  asset_operation = {:operator => 'ADD', :operand => image_asset}

  begin
    # Make the mutate request.
    response = asset_srv.mutate([asset_operation])

    # Display the results
    if response and response[:value]
      uploaded_asset = response[:value].first
      puts 'Image asset with id = "%s" and name = "%s" was created.' %
          [uploaded_asset[:asset_id], uploaded_asset[:asset_name]]
    else
      puts 'No image asset was created.'
    end
  rescue Exception => e
    puts 'Failed to create image asset.'
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  API_VERSION = :v201809

  begin
    upload_image_asset()

  # Authorization error.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::OAuth2VerificationRequired => e
    puts "Authorization credentials are not valid. Edit adwords_api.yml for " +
        "OAuth2 client ID and secret and run misc/setup_oauth2.rb example " +
        "to retrieve and store OAuth2 tokens."
    puts "See this wiki page for more details:\n\n  " +
        'https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/wiki/OAuth2'

  # HTTP errors.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::HttpError => e
    puts "HTTP Error: %s" % e

  # API errors.
  rescue AdwordsApi::Errors::ApiException => e
    puts "Message: %s" % e.message
    puts 'Errors:'
    e.errors.each_with_index do |error, index|
      puts "\tError [%d]:" % (index + 1)
      error.each do |field, value|
        puts "\t\t%s: %s" % [field, value]
      end
    end
  end
end

upload_image_asset.rb

Upload an HTML5 zip file as a MediaBundle

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright:: Copyright 2015, Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
#
# License:: Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
#           you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
#           You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
#           Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
#           distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
#           WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
#           implied.
#           See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
#           limitations under the License.
#
# This example uploads an HTML5 zip file.

require 'adwords_api'
require 'base64'

def upload_media_bundle()
  # AdwordsApi::Api will read a config file from ENV['HOME']/adwords_api.yml
  # when called without parameters.
  adwords = AdwordsApi::Api.new

  # To enable logging of SOAP requests, set the log_level value to 'DEBUG' in
  # the configuration file or provide your own logger:
  # adwords.logger = Logger.new('adwords_xml.log')

  media_srv = adwords.service(:MediaService, API_VERSION)

  # Create HTML5 media.
  html5_url = 'https://goo.gl/9Y7qI2'
  # This utility method retrieves the contents of a URL using all of the config
  # options provided to the Api object.
  html5_data = AdsCommon::Http.get(html5_url, adwords.config)
  base64_html5_data = Base64.encode64(html5_data)
  media_bundle = {
    :xsi_type => 'MediaBundle',
    :data => base64_html5_data,
    :type => 'MEDIA_BUNDLE'
  }

  # Upload HTML5 zip.
  response = media_srv.upload([media_bundle])
  if response and !response.empty?
    ret_html5 = response.first
    full_dimensions = ret_html5[:dimensions]['FULL']
    puts ("HTML5 media with ID %d, dimensions %dx%d and MIME type '%s' " +
        "uploaded successfully.") % [ret_html5[:media_id],
        full_dimensions[:height], full_dimensions[:width],
        ret_html5[:mime_type]]
  else
    puts 'No HTML5 zip was uploaded.'
  end
end

if __FILE__ == $0
  API_VERSION = :v201809

  begin
    upload_media_bundle()

  # Authorization error.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::OAuth2VerificationRequired => e
    puts "Authorization credentials are not valid. Edit adwords_api.yml for " +
        "OAuth2 client ID and secret and run misc/setup_oauth2.rb example " +
        "to retrieve and store OAuth2 tokens."
    puts "See this wiki page for more details:\n\n  " +
        'https://github.com/googleads/google-api-ads-ruby/wiki/OAuth2'

  # HTTP errors.
  rescue AdsCommon::Errors::HttpError => e
    puts "HTTP Error: %s" % e

  # API errors.
  rescue AdwordsApi::Errors::ApiException => e
    puts "Message: %s" % e.message
    puts 'Errors:'
    e.errors.each_with_index do |error, index|
      puts "\tError [%d]:" % (index + 1)
      error.each do |field, value|
        puts "\t\t%s: %s" % [field, value]
      end
    end
  end
end

upload_media_bundle.rb

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