Adwords API: Using campaigns and ads from live on the sandbox

Question

I'm using the Adwords API so that a client can auto-pause the ads associated to some of their communities based on certain criteria. My problem lies with how I can reliably test that this is set up correctly without having to modify their live Adwords campaigns. I know about the sandbox, but a blank slate is not really helpful to test against.

Is there a way to transfer over some of the adgroups/campaigns over from their account, or do I have to rebuild everything manually in the sandbox?

Answer 1

There is no automatic way to achieve this, but you could use the API to pull the structure of the production account and then create an analogous structure in the sandbox.