Paging Through Results

GoogleAdsService.Search supports paging by specifying page_size in your request. This splits the result set of the query into multiple responses, each of which contains up to page_size number of objects. If page_size is not specified, it is automatically set to the maximum of 10,000 rows.

As an example, for the following query:

SELECT
  ad_group.id,
  ad_group_criterion.type,
  ad_group_criterion.criterion_id,
  ad_group_criterion.keyword.text,
  ad_group_criterion.keyword.match_type
FROM ad_group_criterion
WHERE ad_group_criterion.type = KEYWORD

If your account contains 50,000 keywords and page_size is set to 1,000, the result set will contain 1,000 GoogleAdsRow objects in the first response, along with a next_page_token.

To retrieve the next one thousand rows, send the request again with the same page size, but update the request's page_token to the response's next_page_token. The value of page_size in subsequent requests can be different each time. Note that next_page_token is not populated in the response that contains the last batch of rows.

Our client libraries handle paging automatically. You only have to iterate through the rows of the response. When all rows in the current page have been returned, the client library fetches a new page of rows automatically on your behalf until the entire data set is retrieved. If using REST instead of gRPC, you must explicitly make a request for each new page.

The Google Ads API internally caches the entire data set, so subsequent requests are faster than the initial one. Depending on your use case, you can set page_size to any value between 1 and 10,000. In general, for faster overall performance, use a larger page_size for fewer round trips.

Your query must remain exactly the same in subsequent requests to take advantage of the cached data; the requests won't contribute towards your quota, particularly for basic access. If the query differs and is sent along with the same page token, an error is returned.