#1

I am on developer access and am setting up a paused test campaign. I wish to post targeting criteria to a line item, specifically INTERESTs with multiple targeting values. I believe the standard way of posting several targeting values is a string list of targeting values, joined by commas. The targeting values I am using are:

‘1004,12001,12002,12003,12004,12005,12006,12007,12008,12009,12010,12011,12012,12013,12014,12015,12016,12017,12018,12019,12020,12021,12022,12023’

I’ve attempted to make this request using two URLs, one with commas encoded and one without as follows:

Encoded:
https://ads-api.twitter.com/0/accounts/xxxxxx/targeting_criteria?targeting_type=INTEREST&line_item_id=xxxxx&targeting_value=1004%2C12001%2C12002%2C12003%2C12004%2C12005%2C12006%2C12007%2C12008%2C12009%2C12010%2C12011%2C12012%2C12013%2C12014%2C12015%2C12016%2C12017%2C12018%2C12019%2C12020%2C12021%2C12022%2C12023

Not encoded:
https://ads-api.twitter.com/0/accounts/xxxxxx/targeting_criteria?targeting_type=INTEREST&line_item_id=xxxxx&targeting_value=1004,12001,12002,12003,12004,12005,12006,12007,12008,12009,12010,12011,12012,12013,12014,12015,12016,12017,12018,12019,12020,12021,12022,12023

The error appearing is:
{“errors”:[{“code”:“INVALID_PARAMETER”,“message”:“Expected Long, got \“1004,12001,12002,12003,12004,12005,12006,12007,12008,12009,12010,12011,12012,12013,12014,12015,12016,12017,12018,12019,12020,12021,12022,12023\” for targeting_value”,“parameter”:“targeting_value”}

I may be formatting the URL incorrectly, anyone know how to post multiple interests to a line item together? I’ll also wish to do a similar POST request for location targeting.

Thanks,
Eamonn

#2

Hi Eamonn,

For setting multiple values you should be using the PUT variant instead of POST. Please let us know if this solves your problem or not.

Thanks,

John

#3

Hi John,

Just figured it out myself. I have to PUT the IDs as interests and obtain a targeting_value, one for each targeting_type. Then I can make a POST using targeting_value as a long.

Thanks for your help,
Eamonn