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# Search Targeting

> Searches Spotify targeting options (artists, genres, geos, interests, languages, playlists, podcast episode topics, sensitive topics) and returns their ids for use in the targets object of spotify_...

Searches Spotify targeting options (artists, genres, geos, interests, languages, playlists, podcast episode topics, sensitive topics) and returns their ids for use in the targets object of spotify\_ads\_create\_ad\_set.

|                      |                                |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| **App**              | Spotify Ads                    |
| **Operation ID**     | `spotify_ads_search_targeting` |
| **Type**             | Action                         |
| **Connection**       | `spotify_ads` (required)       |
| **Credits per run**  | 1                              |
| **Agent / MCP tool** | Yes                            |

## Inputs

| Field          | Type                                                                                                         | Required | Default | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `target_type`  | enum (`ARTIST`, `GENRE`, `GEO`, `INTEREST`, `LANGUAGE`, `PLAYLIST`, `EPISODE_TOPIC`, `SENSITIVE_TOPIC`, ...) | Yes      | -       | What to look up: ARTIST, GENRE, GEO, INTEREST, LANGUAGE, PLAYLIST, EPISODE\_TOPIC, or SENSITIVE\_TOPIC for targeting ids used in the targets object of spotify\_ads\_create\_ad\_set, or AD\_CATEGORY for the advertising category code that ad set takes in its category field. |
| `query`        | string                                                                                                       | No       | -       | Keyword to search by, matched case-insensitively. Returns everything available when omitted, except for GEO which requires at least one filter.                                                                                                                                  |
| `ids`          | string or array of string                                                                                    | No       | -       | Look up specific target ids instead of searching. Accepts a list or a comma-separated string.                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| `country_code` | string                                                                                                       | No       | -       | GEO only: restrict results to an ISO alpha-2 country code, for example US.                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| `geo_types`    | array of string or SelectableOption                                                                          | No       | -       | GEO only: restrict results to these geo types: CITY, COUNTRY, DMA\_REGION, POSTAL\_CODE, REGION.                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `limit`        | integer                                                                                                      | No       | `100`   | Maximum number of targets to return. Default: 100.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

### SelectableOption

| Field   | Type   | Required | Default | Description |
| ------- | ------ | -------- | ------- | ----------- |
| `value` | string | Yes      | -       |             |
| `label` | string | Yes      | -       |             |

## Output

**Type**: `List[Dict]`

Returns matching targets with their id and name; geos also include type, country\_code and parent\_geo\_name, artists include images, and interests include their subtargets.

**Fields**: dynamic (depend on the inputs)