Can You Retrieve Deleted Keywords Using the Google AdWords API?

Jun 13, 2008 - 8:24 am 0 by
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There is a technical discussion taking place at Google Groups on the topic of bringing back to life a deleted keyword from Google AdWords.

Jeff Posnick from the Google AdWords API Team said he isn't aware of a way to retrieve deleted keywords with the API. He said, this is a feature request:

After poking around a bit with reports and getAllCriteria(), I don't actually know of a good method to retrieve a list of deleted keywords using the API. I can tell you that there is an existing feature request in with the reports team to return deleted keywords in Structure reports, though, which is kind of the natural place for them.

But the conversation has not stopped there. AdWords API users seem to be figuring out some methods to kind of reverse engineer some of the API reporting tools to come up with a way to get those deleted keywords. Personally, I am not a heavy AdWords API user, so I don't know if any of those methods would work. If you know of a way, join the conversation and share.

Forum discussion at Google Groups.

 

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