Change Status

Video: Status

Change Status provides a means to keep track of which resources have changed within an account over a given time period. If a resource had multiple changes during your given time period, then only the latest change is returned. You can then determine if you need to sync your local database values with those that have changed within the time period.

For example, if during a given time period you add and then update a given campaign, only the change status for the UPDATE and not for the ADD operation is returned. If you move the end of the timeframe to before the update, then you would see the ADD operation.

If you want the complete field-by-field results with a detailed view similar to the Change History web page, see Change Event.

Important: Not all rows from the change status have corresponding details in the change event. See change event limitations for details.

Important: Some rows from the change status may not appear in Change History in the Google Ads web interface. The web interface has additional business logic and rendering rules that alter its output compared to the change status.

Change Status types

The following resource types are tracked. Note that the resource type IDs are different than the enum value indexes of ChangeStatusResourceType.

Resource type	Value	Resource type ID
Core Entities
Ad group	AD_GROUP	2
Ad group ad	AD_GROUP_AD	3
Ad group bid modifier	AD_GROUP_BID_MODIFIER	11
Ad group criterion	AD_GROUP_CRITERION	4
Ad group feed	AD_GROUP_FEED	12
Asset group	ASSET_BUNDLE	19
Campaign	CAMPAIGN	5
Campaign budget	CAMPAIGN_BUDGET	7
Campaign criterion	CAMPAIGN_CRITERION	6
Feeds
Campaign feed	CAMPAIGN_FEED	9
Feed	FEED	8
Feed item	FEED_ITEM	10
Shared Sets
Shared set	SHARED_SET	17
Campaign shared set	CAMPAIGN_SHARED_SET	18
Assets
Asset	ASSET	13
Asset Set	ASSET_SET	25
Customer asset	CUSTOMER_ASSET	14
Campaign asset	CAMPAIGN_ASSET	15
Campaign asset set	CAMPAIGN_ASSET_SET	26
Ad group asset	AD_GROUP_ASSET	16

Determining resource type by ID

The Google Ads API can return rows with an UNKNOWN resource type value for earlier API versions, meaning that the type is supported in a future version of the Google Ads API but was not fully supported at the time that your current version was released. When this happens, you can still determine the resource type of the row by parsing the returned resource_name.

The resource name format is:

customers/{customer_id}/changeStatus/{timestamp}-{resource_type_id}-{additional_ids}

There could be one or more additional IDs, separated by the - character, but the one that is relevant is the resource_type_id—the second ID after the final slash. The previous table lists all of the resource type IDs.

Retrieve changes

The list of changes can be filtered by date as well as by resource type. The operation on a given resource is one of ADDED, CHANGED, or REMOVED.

You can retrieve the list of all changes for all resource types. The returned resource_type is the field that changed. Any parent fields are also populated. For example, if the ad_group_criterion changed, then the ad_group field is also populated.

A change could take up to 3 minutes to be reflected in the change status results.

The query must filter on a date within the past 90 days, and optionally a time, and must include a LIMIT clause set to at most 10,000 results.

Java

private void runExample(GoogleAdsClient googleAdsClient, long customerId) {
  String query =
      "SELECT change_status.resource_name, "
          + "change_status.last_change_date_time, "
          + "change_status.resource_status, "
          + "change_status.resource_type, "
          + "change_status.ad_group, "
          + "change_status.ad_group_ad, "
          + "change_status.ad_group_bid_modifier, "
          + "change_status.ad_group_criterion, "
          + "change_status.campaign, "
          + "change_status.campaign_criterion, "
          + "FROM change_status "
          + "WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS "
          + "ORDER BY change_status.last_change_date_time "
          + "LIMIT 10000";

  try (GoogleAdsServiceClient client =
      googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createGoogleAdsServiceClient()) {
    SearchPagedResponse response = client.search(String.valueOf(customerId), query);

    for (GoogleAdsRow row : response.iterateAll()) {
      Optional<String> resourceNameOfChangedEntity =
          getResourceNameForResourceType(row.getChangeStatus());

      System.out.printf(
          "On '%s', change status '%s' shows a resource type of '%s' "
              + "with resource name '%s' was '%s'.%n",
          row.getChangeStatus().getLastChangeDateTime(),
          row.getChangeStatus().getResourceName(),
          row.getChangeStatus().getResourceType().name(),
          resourceNameOfChangedEntity.orElse(""),
          row.getChangeStatus().getResourceStatus().name());
    }
  }
}
GetChangeSummary.java
      

C#

public void Run(GoogleAdsClient client, long customerId)
{
    // Get the GoogleAdsService.
    GoogleAdsServiceClient googleAdsService = client.GetService(
        Services.V19.GoogleAdsService);

    string searchQuery = @"
        SELECT
            change_status.resource_name,
            change_status.last_change_date_time,
            change_status.resource_type,
            change_status.campaign,
            change_status.ad_group,
            change_status.resource_status,
            change_status.ad_group_ad,
            change_status.ad_group_criterion,
            change_status.campaign_criterion
        FROM change_status
        WHERE
            change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS
        ORDER BY change_status.last_change_date_time
        LIMIT 10000";

    // Create a request that will retrieve all changes.
    SearchGoogleAdsRequest request = new SearchGoogleAdsRequest()
    {
        Query = searchQuery,
        CustomerId = customerId.ToString()
    };

    try
    {
        // Issue the search request.
        PagedEnumerable<SearchGoogleAdsResponse, GoogleAdsRow> searchPagedResponse =
            googleAdsService.Search(request);

        // Iterate over all rows in all pages and prints the requested field values for the
        // campaign in each row.
        foreach (GoogleAdsRow googleAdsRow in searchPagedResponse)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Last change: {0}, Resource type: {1}, " +
                "Resource name: {2}, Resource status: {3}, Specific resource name: {4}",
                googleAdsRow.ChangeStatus.LastChangeDateTime,
                googleAdsRow.ChangeStatus.ResourceType,
                googleAdsRow.ChangeStatus.ResourceName,
                googleAdsRow.ChangeStatus.ResourceStatus,
                SpecificResourceName(googleAdsRow.ChangeStatus.ResourceType,
                    googleAdsRow));
        }
    }
    catch (GoogleAdsException e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
        Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
        Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
        throw;
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// Return the name of the most specific resource that changed.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="resourceType">Type of the resource.</param>
/// <param name="row">Each returned row contains all possible changed fields</param>
/// <returns>The resource name of the changed field based on the resource type.
/// The changed field's parent is also populated, but is not used.</returns>
private string SpecificResourceName(ChangeStatusResourceType resourceType, GoogleAdsRow row)
{
    string resourceName;
    switch (resourceType)
    {
        case ChangeStatusResourceType.AdGroup:
            resourceName = row.ChangeStatus.AdGroup;
            break;

        case ChangeStatusResourceType.AdGroupAd:
            resourceName = row.ChangeStatus.AdGroupAd;
            break;

        case ChangeStatusResourceType.AdGroupCriterion:
            resourceName = row.ChangeStatus.AdGroupCriterion;
            break;

        case ChangeStatusResourceType.Campaign:
            resourceName = row.ChangeStatus.Campaign;
            break;

        case ChangeStatusResourceType.CampaignCriterion:
            resourceName = row.ChangeStatus.CampaignCriterion;
            break;

        case ChangeStatusResourceType.Unknown:
        case ChangeStatusResourceType.Unspecified:
        default:
            resourceName = "";
            break;
    }
    return resourceName;
}
GetChangeSummary.cs
      

PHP

public static function runExample(GoogleAdsClient $googleAdsClient, int $customerId)
{
    $googleAdsServiceClient = $googleAdsClient->getGoogleAdsServiceClient();
    // Creates a query to find information about changed resources in your account.
    $query = 'SELECT change_status.resource_name, '
        . 'change_status.last_change_date_time, '
        . 'change_status.resource_status, '
        . 'change_status.resource_type, '
        . 'change_status.ad_group, '
        . 'change_status.ad_group_ad, '
        . 'change_status.ad_group_bid_modifier, '
        . 'change_status.ad_group_criterion, '
        . 'change_status.ad_group_feed, '
        . 'change_status.campaign, '
        . 'change_status.campaign_criterion, '
        . 'change_status.campaign_feed, '
        . 'change_status.feed, '
        . 'change_status.feed_item '
        . 'FROM change_status '
        . 'WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS '
        . 'ORDER BY change_status.last_change_date_time '
        . 'LIMIT 10000';

    // Issues a search request.
    $response = $googleAdsServiceClient->search(
        SearchGoogleAdsRequest::build($customerId, $query)
    );

    // Iterates over all rows in all pages and prints the requested field values for
    // the change status in each row.
    foreach ($response->iterateAllElements() as $googleAdsRow) {
        /** @var GoogleAdsRow $googleAdsRow */
        printf(
            "On %s, change status '%s' shows resource '%s' with type '%s' and status '%s'.%s",
            $googleAdsRow->getChangeStatus()->getLastChangeDateTime(),
            $googleAdsRow->getChangeStatus()->getResourceName(),
            self::getResourceNameForResourceType($googleAdsRow->getChangeStatus()),
            ChangeStatusResourceType::name(
                $googleAdsRow->getChangeStatus()->getResourceType()
            ),
            ChangeStatusOperation::name($googleAdsRow->getChangeStatus()->getResourceStatus()),
            PHP_EOL
        );
    }
}

/**
 * Gets the resource name for the resource type of the change status object.
 *
 * Each returned row contains all possible changed resources, only one of which is populated
 * with the name of the changed resource. This function returns the resource name of the
 * changed resource based on the resource type.
 *
 * @param ChangeStatus $changeStatus the change status object for getting changed resource
 * @return string the name of the resource that changed
 */
private static function getResourceNameForResourceType(
    ChangeStatus $changeStatus
) {
    $resourceType = $changeStatus->getResourceType();
    $resourceName = ''; // Default value for UNSPECIFIED or UNKNOWN resource type.
    switch ($resourceType) {
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::AD_GROUP:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getAdGroup();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::AD_GROUP_AD:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getAdGroupAd();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::AD_GROUP_BID_MODIFIER:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getAdGroupBidModifier();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::AD_GROUP_CRITERION:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getAdGroupCriterion();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::AD_GROUP_FEED:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getAdGroupFeed();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::CAMPAIGN:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getCampaign();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::CAMPAIGN_CRITERION:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getCampaignCriterion();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::CAMPAIGN_FEED:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getCampaignFeed();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::FEED:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getFeed();
            break;
        case ChangeStatusResourceType::FEED_ITEM:
            $resourceName = $changeStatus->getFeedItem();
            break;
    }

    return $resourceName;
}
GetChangeSummary.php
      

Python

def main(client, customer_id):
    ads_service = client.get_service("GoogleAdsService")

    # Construct a query to find information about changed resources in your
    # account.
    query = """
        SELECT
          change_status.resource_name,
          change_status.last_change_date_time,
          change_status.resource_type,
          change_status.campaign,
          change_status.ad_group,
          change_status.resource_status,
          change_status.ad_group_ad,
          change_status.ad_group_criterion,
          change_status.campaign_criterion
        FROM change_status
        WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS
        ORDER BY change_status.last_change_date_time
        LIMIT 10000"""

    search_request = client.get_type("SearchGoogleAdsRequest")
    search_request.customer_id = customer_id
    search_request.query = query

    response = ads_service.search(request=search_request)

    for row in response:
        cs = row.change_status
        resource_type = cs.resource_type.name
        if resource_type == "AD_GROUP":
            resource_name = cs.ad_group
        elif resource_type == "AD_GROUP_AD":
            resource_name = cs.ad_group_ad
        elif resource_type == "AD_GROUP_CRITERION":
            resource_name = cs.ad_group_criterion
        elif resource_type == "CAMPAIGN":
            resource_name = cs.campaign
        elif resource_type == "CAMPAIGN_CRITERION":
            resource_name = cs.campaign_criterion
        else:
            resource_name = "UNKNOWN"

        resource_status = cs.resource_status.name
        print(
            f"On '{cs.last_change_date_time}', change status "
            f"'{cs.resource_name}' shows that a resource type of "
            f"'{resource_type}' with resource name '{resource_name}' was "
            f"{resource_status}"
        )
get_change_summary.py
      

Ruby

def get_change_summary(customer_id)
  # GoogleAdsClient will read a config file from
  # ENV['HOME']/google_ads_config.rb when called without parameters
  client = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::GoogleAdsClient.new

  # Construct a query to find information about changed resources in your
  # account.
  query = <<~QUERY
    SELECT
      change_status.resource_name,
      change_status.last_change_date_time,
      change_status.resource_type,
      change_status.campaign,
      change_status.ad_group,
      change_status.resource_status,
      change_status.ad_group_ad,
      change_status.ad_group_criterion,
      change_status.campaign_criterion
    FROM
      change_status
    WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS
    ORDER BY
      change_status.last_change_date_time
    LIMIT 10000
  QUERY

  # Execute the query.
  response = client.service.google_ads.search(
    customer_id: customer_id,
    query: query,
  )

  # Process the results.
  response.each do |row|
    cs = row.change_status
    resource_name = case cs.resource_type
    when :AD_GROUP
      cs.ad_group
    when :AD_GROUP_AD
      cs.ad_group_ad
    when :AD_GROUP_CRITERION
      cs.ad_group_criterion
    when :CAMPAIGN
      cs.campaign
    when :CAMPAIGN_CRITERION
      cs.campaign_criterion
    else
      "UNKNOWN"
    end
    puts "On #{cs.last_change_date_time}, change status #{cs.resource_name} " \
         "shows a resource type of #{cs.resource_type} " \
         "with resource name #{resource_name} was #{cs.resource_status}."
  end
end
get_change_summary.rb
      

Perl

sub get_change_summary {
  my ($api_client, $customer_id) = @_;

  # Construct a search query to find information about changed resources in your
  # account.
  my $search_query =
    "SELECT change_status.resource_name, change_status.last_change_date_time, "
    . "change_status.resource_status, "
    . "change_status.resource_type, "
    . "change_status.ad_group, "
    . "change_status.ad_group_ad, "
    . "change_status.ad_group_bid_modifier, "
    . "change_status.ad_group_criterion, "
    . "change_status.ad_group_feed, "
    . "change_status.campaign, "
    . "change_status.campaign_criterion, "
    . "change_status.campaign_feed, "
    . "change_status.feed, "
    . "change_status.feed_item "
    . "FROM change_status "
    . "WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_14_DAYS "
    . "ORDER BY change_status.last_change_date_time "
    . "LIMIT 10000";

  # Create a search Google Ads request that will retrieve all change statuses using
  # pages of the specified page size.
  my $search_request =
    Google::Ads::GoogleAds::V19::Services::GoogleAdsService::SearchGoogleAdsRequest
    ->new({
      customerId => $customer_id,
      query      => $search_query
    });

  # Get the GoogleAdsService.
  my $google_ads_service = $api_client->GoogleAdsService();

  my $iterator = Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Utils::SearchGoogleAdsIterator->new({
    service => $google_ads_service,
    request => $search_request
  });

  # Iterate over all rows in all pages and print the requested field values for
  # the change status in each row.
  while ($iterator->has_next) {
    my $google_ads_row = $iterator->next;

    my $change_status = $google_ads_row->{changeStatus};

    printf "On %s, change status '%s' shows a resource type of '%s' " .
      "with resource name '%s' was '%s'.\n",
      $change_status->{lastChangeDateTime},
      $change_status->{resourceName}, $change_status->{resourceType},
      __get_resource_name_for_resource_type($change_status),
      $change_status->{resourceStatus};
  }

  return 1;
}

# This method returns the resource name of the changed field based on the
# resource type. The changed field's parent is also populated but is not used.
sub __get_resource_name_for_resource_type {
  my $change_status = shift;
  my $resource_type = $change_status->{resourceType};
  if ($resource_type eq AD_GROUP) {
    return $change_status->{adGroup};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq AD_GROUP_AD) {
    return $change_status->{adGroupAd};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq AD_GROUP_BID_MODIFIER) {
    return $change_status->{adGroupBidModifier};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq AD_GROUP_CRITERION) {
    return $change_status->{adGroupCriterion};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq AD_GROUP_FEED) {
    return $change_status->{adGroupFeed};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq CAMPAIGN) {
    return $change_status->{campaign};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq CAMPAIGN_CRITERION) {
    return $change_status->{campaignCriterion};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq CAMPAIGN_FEED) {
    return $change_status->{campaignFeed};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq FEED) {
    return $change_status->{feed};
  } elsif ($resource_type eq FEED_ITEM) {
    return $change_status->{feedItem};
  } else {
    return "";
  }
}
get_change_summary.pl
      

Sync locally

Once the precise resource_name is retrieved, a new query with this resource name should be made to obtain all the current values of the resource. Change status is not tracked for a specific resource's changed values—only which resources have changed. Determining the difference between the prior and current values is the responsibility of the calling program.

Change time

The last_change_date_time field indicates when the most recent change to a resource occurred. Thus, the freshness of locally cached data can be compared with this field's value to help determine whether local data is out of date.

Note that this field is also filterable, meaning it can be used in the WHERE clause of a Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) query, letting you query for changes in resources that have occurred before or after a given time.

For example, finding all changes that have occurred for a certain resource type within the last week can be accomplished with the following GAQL predicate clause:

WHERE change_status.last_change_date_time DURING LAST_7_DAYS