AdsApp.​Budget

Represents a Google Ads budget. Budgets are used for managing the amount of money spent on Google Ads.

Budgets may be shared among a number of campaigns; use Budget.campaigns() to find the campaigns that are using the budget. For more information on Shared Budgets, please see Google Ads API article .

Methods:

Member Type Description
AdsApp.CampaignSelector Returns the selector of all search and display campaigns that share this budget.
double Returns the amount of the budget, in the currency of the account.
String Returns the delivery method of the budget.
String Returns the type of this entity as a String , in this case, "Budget" .
String Returns the ID of the budget.
String Returns the name of the budget.
String Returns the resource name of the budget.
AdsApp.Stats Returns stats for the specified date range.
AdsApp.Stats Returns stats for the specified custom date range.
double Returns the total amount of the budget, in the currency of the account.
String Returns the type of the budget (also known as the period).
boolean Returns true if the budget is explicitly shared, and false otherwise.
void Sets the budget's amount to the specified value, in the currency of the account.
void Sets the delivery method of the budget.
void Sets the total budget's amount to the specified value, in the currency of the account.

campaigns()

Returns the selector of all search and display campaigns that share this budget.

Return values:

Type Description
AdsApp.CampaignSelector Selector of all search and display campaigns that share this budget.

getAmount()

Returns the amount of the budget, in the currency of the account. Will return 0 if the budget has a total amount rather than a daily amount.

To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Return values:

Type Description
double Amount of the budget.

getDeliveryMethod()

Returns the delivery method of the budget. Possible return values:

STANDARD , ACCELERATED .

Return values:

Type Description
String Delivery method of the budget.

getEntityType()

Returns the type of this entity as a String , in this case, "Budget" .

Return values:

Type Description
String Type of this entity: "Budget" .

getId()

Returns the ID of the budget.

Return values:

Type Description
String The ID of the budget.

getName()

Returns the name of the budget. Every budget must have a non-empty name; all budget names in an account are distinct.

Return values:

Type Description
String Name of the budget.

getResourceName()

Returns the resource name of the budget.

Return values:

Type Description
String The resource name of the budget.

getStatsFor(dateRange)

Returns stats for the specified date range. Supported values:

TODAY, YESTERDAY, LAST_7_DAYS, THIS_WEEK_SUN_TODAY, LAST_WEEK, LAST_14_DAYS, LAST_30_DAYS, LAST_BUSINESS_WEEK, LAST_WEEK_SUN_SAT, THIS_MONTH, LAST_MONTH, ALL_TIME .

Example:

 var 
  
 stats 
  
 = 
  
 budget 
 . 
 getStatsFor 
 ( 
 "THIS_MONTH" 
 ); 

Arguments:

Name Type Description
dateRange
String Date range for which the stats are requested.

Return values:

Type Description
AdsApp.Stats The stats for the specified date range.

getStatsFor(dateFrom, dateTo)

Returns stats for the specified custom date range. Both parameters can be either an object containing year, month, and day fields, or an 8-digit string in YYYYMMDD form. For instance, March 24th, 2013 is represented as either {year: 2013, month: 3, day: 24} or "20130324" . The date range is inclusive on both ends, so forDateRange("20130324", "20130324") defines a range of a single day.

Arguments:

Name Type Description
dateFrom
Object Start date of the date range. Must be either a string in YYYYMMDD form, or an object with year , month and day properties.
dateTo
Object End date of the date range. Must be either a string in YYYYMMDD form, or an object with year , month and day properties.

Return values:

Type Description
AdsApp.Stats The stats for the specified date range.

getTotalAmount()

Returns the total amount of the budget, in the currency of the account. Will return 0 if the budget has a daily amount rather than a total amount. Total budgets refer to the total amount that a specific campaign can spend from start to end date and as such cannot be shared.

To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Return values:

Type Description
double Total amount of the budget.

getType()

Returns the type of the budget (also known as the period). Possible return values:

DAILY , TOTAL . To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Return values:

Type Description
String Type of the budget.

isExplicitlyShared()

Returns true if the budget is explicitly shared, and false otherwise.
  • If true , this budget was created through the BudgetService or through the UI shared library with the purpose of sharing this budgets across one or more campaigns.
  • If false , this budget was created with the intention to be used with a single campaign, and the Budget's name will stay in the sync with the associated Campaign's name.

Return values:

Type Description
boolean true if the budget is explicitly shared.

setAmount(amount)

Sets the budget's amount to the specified value, in the currency of the account.

This value represents an average daily budget amount; the actual daily costs might vary. See Charges and your daily budget .

This method will throw an error if the budget has a total amount rather than a daily amount. To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Returns nothing.

Arguments:

Name Type Description
amount
double The amount of the budget.

setDeliveryMethod(deliveryMethod)

Sets the delivery method of the budget.

Delivery method cannot be changed for campaign total budgets.

To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Returns nothing.

Arguments:

Name Type Description
deliveryMethod
String The delivery method of the budget. Must be one of "STANDARD" , "ACCELERATED" .

setTotalAmount(totalAmount)

Sets the total budget's amount to the specified value, in the currency of the account.

This value represents a total budget amount. Campaign total budgets are only available for video campaigns with a specific start and end date and cannot be shared amongst multiple campaigns. Also, one can't change the budget type once a campaign is created. As such, this method will throw an error if the budget has a daily amount rather than a total amount.

To learn more about daily and total budgets see About campaign budgets .

Returns nothing.

Arguments:

Name Type Description
totalAmount
double The total amount of the budget.
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