#1

Hi,
I am trying to update bids for line items that were created on dashboard and did not have any category set. I want to update bids for those line items through API but I get the error :

“message”: “A minimum of 1 items must be provided for categories”

Is there not any way to update bids without explicitly mentioning categories for line items that did not have any categories to begin with.

#2

@SaadAhmedQure10 What’s your Ads account ID and the line_item_id in question?

By the way, do you think is that because of this?

categories: sometimes required
Note : Required when the line item’s placement is set to PUBLISHER_NETWORK.

PUT accounts/:account_id/line_items/:line_item_id

#3

Hi,

No the placement was set to " [‘TWITTER_PROFILE’, ‘TWITTER_TIMELINE’]" . My question is that if I can change the bids for these campaigns on dashboard without being prompted for categories. Why do I get prompted to enter Categories in API when trying to update bids.

#4

Can you please provide an example line item ID so we can take a closer look? Thanks, @SaadAhmedQure10.

#5

Hi Juan,

The line Id for the item is eyljw .

Regards,

Saad Qureshi

#6

Thanks for the information.

I’m not able to reproduce this. I’ve created a line item with the same values (except name and currency) and am able to successfully update the bid.

$ twurl -X PUT -H ads-api.twitter.com "/5/accounts/18ce54d4x5t/line_items/f8hpn?bid_amount_local_micro=490000"
{
  "data": {
    "bid_type": "TARGET",
    "advertiser_user_id": 756201191646691328,
    "name": "Untitled",
    "placements": [
      "TWITTER_TIMELINE",
      "TWITTER_PROFILE"
    ],
    "start_time": null,
    "bid_amount_local_micro": 490000,
    "automatically_select_bid": false,
    "advertiser_domain": null,
    "target_cpa_local_micro": null,
    "primary_web_event_tag": null,
    "charge_by": "APP_CLICK",
    "product_type": "PROMOTED_TWEETS",
    "end_time": null,
    "bid_unit": "APP_CLICK",
    "total_budget_amount_local_micro": null,
    "objective": "APP_ENGAGEMENTS",
    "id": "f8hpn",
    "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
    "optimization": "DEFAULT",
    "categories": [],
    "currency": "USD",
    "created_at": "2019-06-04T17:08:52Z",
    "tracking_tags": [],
    "updated_at": "2019-06-04T17:11:02Z",
    "include_sentiment": "ALL",
    "campaign_id": "cmajj",
    "creative_source": "MANUAL",
    "deleted": false
  },
  "request": {
    "params": {
      "line_item_id": "f8hpn",
      "bid_amount_local_micro": 490000,
      "account_id": "18ce54d4x5t"
    }
  }
}

Could you please provide the full request and response? (Are you using an SDK by chance?)

#7

Hi Juan
Yes I am using the python SDK. Just to experment I created a test adgroup id f8qrh without any category, with placements on TWITTER_TIMELINE. It did not ask me for category ID when I updated the bids using Twurl. But it asks me for category when I use the SDK. Can you suggest a way to circumvent this issue because most of the development we do will be using the SDK.

Regards,

Saad Qureshi

#8

Thanks for confirming that you are using the Python SDK. Let us look into it. It looks like there is a PR (#119) that may address this.