Google Ads Client Library for Perl - 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.

campaign_management

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.pl that shows the whole functionality developed in AdWords API. create_complete_campaign_both_apis_phase_1.pl through create_complete_campaign_both_apis_phase_4.pl shows how to migrate functionality incrementally from the AdWords API to the Google Ads API. create_complete_campaign_google_ads_api_only.pl shows the code example fully transformed into using the Google Ads API.

Running the examples

To execute the examples, open run_example.pl, fill in the required authentication credentials and parameters, then uncomment the example you want to run and run perl run_example.pl from the command line.