Increased Request Limits for BatchJobService Enhance Large Asset Uploads
We're pleased to announce significant increases to the request size limits for the BatchJobService.AddBatchJobOperations method in the Google Ads API. These changes are designed to streamline workflows, particularly for developers uploading multiple large assets like images, by reducing the need to split uploads into numerous smaller requests.
The following limits have been increased:
Request Size Cap on AddBatchJobOperations: Increased from 10,484,488 bytes (approximately 10.48 MB) to 41,937,920 bytes (approximately 41.94 MB).
Single Mutate Operation Size: While the overall request can be larger, the size of a single mutate operation within the batch is capped at 10,484,488 bytes (approximately 10.48 MB).
What This Means for Developers:
This update allows you to include more operations, especially those containing sizable data like image assets, within a single AddBatchJobOperations request. This can simplify your client-side logic and potentially improve throughput by reducing the number of round trips required to add all operations to a batch job.
For example, when uploading multiple images, each of which can be up to 5,242,880 bytes (approximately 5.24 MB), you can now batch more of these into a single request, up to the new 41,937,920 bytes (approximately 41.94 MB) total request limit.
Important Notes:
While the request size limit has increased, other limitations such as the maximum number of operations per request (10,000) and per job (1 million) still apply. Please refer to the Best Practices and Limitations guide for full details.
We believe this enhancement to the BatchJobService will offer greater flexibility and efficiency for managing bulk operations in the Google Ads API.
As always, please reach out to us via the forum or our other support channels if you have any questions or feedback.
If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, please reach out to us on our “Google Advertising and Measurement Community” Discord server .
Bob Hancock, Google Ads API Team
