Google Ads Client Library for Python - Migration examples

This folder contains code examples that illustrate how to migrate from the AdWords API to the Google Ads API in a step-by-step manner. The following code examples are provided.

CampaignManagement This folder contains a code example that shows how to create a Google Ads Search campaign. The code example does the following operations:

• Create a budget
• Create a campaign
• Create an ad group
• Create text ads
• Create keywords

The code example starts with create_complete_campaign_adwords_api_only.py that shows the whole functionality developed in AdWords API. create_complete_campaign_both_apis_phase_1.py through create_complete_campaign_both_apis_phase_4.py shows how to migrate functionality incrementally from the AdWords API to the Google Ads API. create_complete_campaign_google_ads_api_pnly.py shows the code example fully transformed into using the Google Ads API.

Running the examples:

1. cd into ./migration directory.
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies.
3. Fill in the required authentication credentials, see here for the Google Ads API client library, and here for the AdWords client library.
4. Run each example from the command line, providing the required parameters.