Resource Names

Name hierarchy

Resource names used in the Search Ads 360 Reporting API are hierarchical, mirroring the organization of entities within Search Ads 360. Almost all resources are sub-resources of the Customer resource, which reflects the fact that almost every API call has to target a specific Search Ads 360 account. For example, campaigns, ad groups, ads, and keywords are all sub-resources of a root customer resource.

Resource	Resource Name
Customer	customers/1234567890
Campaign	customers/1234567890/campaigns/8765432109
AdGroup	customers/1234567890/adGroups/54321098765
AdGroupAd	customers/1234567890/adGroupAds/54321098765~2109876543210

Key Point: The Search Ads 360 Reporting API uses relative resource names (and not full resource names like some other Google APIs).

Resource IDs

Search Ads 360 Reporting API entities (customers, campaigns, etc.) are referred to by their resource names throughout the API. However, it's important to note that the resource names themselves may have unique numerical resource IDs that identify each object in the hierarchy. In these cases, it may be useful to parse the resource name to extract these resource IDs and assemble a new one.

For example, examine the AdGroupAd resource name from the previous table:

customers/1234567890/adGroupAds/54321098765~2109876543210

This can be broken down into its individual resource IDs (separated by collection IDs) as follows:

Resource name components
Resource IDs	customer ID: "1234567890" ad group ID: "54321098765" ad group ad ID: "2109876543210"
Collection IDs	"customers" "adGroupAds"

Parsing the individual IDs lets you derive new resource names to reference the ad group ad's customer (customers/1234567890) or its ad group (customers/1234567890/adGroupAds/54321098765).

Key Point: Resource names in JSON request and response bodies are referred to by the resourceName field, not the name field like in some other Google Cloud APIs. Many Search Ads 360 entities have name attributes themselves (campaign.Name, adGroup.Name, etc.), so resourceName is used to avoid collision with existing object names.