Hello Rob, The actual amount of time that it will take varies depending on the date range, the size of your accounts, and the exact aggregation types. Some reports can complete in under a minute, and I'd think that the majority would complete i under 5 minutes or so, though I have heard of reports that legitimately take over an hour. When you schedule a report using the API you end up polling for the status and waiting for it to complete, and a reasonable poll interval is around 30 seconds or a minute.
It should take the same amount of time for a report to complete regardless of whether you initiate the process via the API's scheduleReportJob() or whether you schedule a report with the same options using the AdWords web interface. If you're curious and want to get a feel for how long the reports your interested in will take to run, I'd recommend experimenting with the AdWords web interface so that you do not incur any API charges. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 27, 12:18 pm, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, When I create a report through the api, can I access the data > instantly? or must I wait a certain amount of time? I ask because of > the download link option in report generation. > > If I have to wait for a report generation what time frame are we > talking seconds, minutes, hours etc? > > Thanks > > On Jan 26, 5:49 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Rob, > > > Could you clarify? I'm not sure what time frame you're asking about. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 26, 5:46 pm, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thank you, I really appreciate an answer. What kind of time frame am > > > I looking at for report generation? > > > > Thanks > > > > Rob > > > > On Jan 22, 10:44 am, AdWords API Advisor > > > > <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > > > > Hello Rob, > > > > > The Sandbox, as you point out, does not provide any actual report > > > > data. The ReportService in the Sandbox is hopefully useful for when > > > > developing or testing code to schedule and download reports. > > > > > When it comes to report processing, I'd recommend that you develop > > > > and test against a report or set of reports specific to your accounts. > > > > The easiest, and free, way to generate such reports is to use the > > > > AdWords web interface to set up a report with the same options of your > > > > choosing, and then download the XML of version of that report from the > > > > web interface. Everything other than Structure reports should be > > > > available via the web interface. You could of course generate the > > > > reports that you'd test your processing code against via the > > > > Production ReportService, but that obviously incurs a charge of 500 > > > > API units. > > > > > Once you have a set of reports that contain all the columns that > > > > you'd like and some actual statistics relevant to your account, just > > > > reference one of the reports locally during your development or > > > > testing process when it comes time to parse your report. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > > On Jan 21, 9:27 am, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > That was less than helpful and if it saves me API units to do all of > > > > > my dev on a good dev enviroment then yes it is important. > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > On Jan 20, 6:08 pm, "Jan Piotrowski (AdWords API Guru)" > > > > > > <piotrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I don't pay for the dev environment. Do you? ;) > > > > > > > - Jan > > > > > > > On 20 Jan., 23:04, Rob <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to develop an app and am having very little luck with > > > > > > > reporting, from what I've seen no matter what report I call I get > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > following url > > > > > > > >https://sandbox.google.com/sandboxreports/defined.xml > > > > > > > > Which of course has generic data. > > > > > > > > So am I right or am I missing some detail and If this is the way > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > sandbox is there a place where I can see what the reports are > > > > > > > supposed > > > > > > > to look like? > > > > > > > > Google! your sandbox sucks, its completely inappropriate for > > > > > > > development, a proper sandbox should emulate the production > > > > > > > enviroment > > > > > > > almost exactly. > > > > > > > > Is there a reason why we pay for this service and have a terrible > > > > > > > dev > > > > > > > enviroment? Really I'm just frustrated there must be some > > > > > > > reasonable > > > > > > > answer? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
