Hi, Thank you for reporting this problem, I am able to replicate it as well. I'll bring this to the attention of the core engineering team. The same request without the accent works correctly, so you may want to remove the accents for now, to get approximate search volume values.
Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Jul 16, 5:51 am, calford <jonathan.cifuen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I ran a test using words with accents and some of them dont return any > data (when the keyword tool does). > > café, language: spanish, country: spain returns nothing for the last > 12 months using the API. > using the web keyword tool it returns 135,000 for last month. > > something i noticed from the returned xml is that the top part shows > the word with the accent > > <ns2:keywords> > <ns1:text>café</ns1:text> > <ns1:matchType>BROAD</ns1:matchType> > </ns2:keywords> > > but the bottom part shows the word encoded, not sure if that means > anything > > <ns2:value> > <Criterion.Type>Keyword</Criterion.Type> > <text>café</text> > <matchType>BROAD</matchType> > </ns2:value> > > the word caffè (notice the different accent) does return values. all > countries all languages. > > [Jul 16 2010 09:42:41.000000 - INFO] POST /api/adwords/o/v200909/ > TargetingIdeaService HTTP/1.1 > Host: adwords.google.com > Connection: Keep-Alive > User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.3.0, gzip > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > Content-Encoding: gzip > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 > SOAPAction: "" > Content-Length: 804 > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/ > envelope/" xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909" xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v200909"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> > <SOAP-ENV:Header> > <ns2:RequestHeader xsi:type="ns1:RequestHeader"> > <ns1:applicationToken/> > <ns1:authToken>*****</ns1:authToken> > <ns1:developerToken>*****</ns1:developerToken> > <ns1:userAgent>AwApi-PHP-2.1.0-adwords api test</ns1:userAgent> > </ns2:RequestHeader> > </SOAP-ENV:Header> > <SOAP-ENV:Body> > <ns2:get> > <ns2:selector> > <ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/ > api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:RelatedToKeywordSearchParameter"> > <ns2:keywords> > <ns1:text>café</ns1:text> > <ns1:matchType>BROAD</ns1:matchType> > </ns2:keywords> > </ns2:searchParameters> > <ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/ > api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:CountryTargetSearchParameter"> > <ns2:countryTargets> > <ns1:countryCode>ES</ns1:countryCode> > </ns2:countryTargets> > </ns2:searchParameters> > <ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/ > api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:LanguageTargetSearchParameter"> > <ns2:languageTargets> > <ns1:languageCode>es</ns1:languageCode> > </ns2:languageTargets> > </ns2:searchParameters> > <ns2:ideaType>KEYWORD</ns2:ideaType> > <ns2:requestType>STATS</ns2:requestType> > <ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>KEYWORD</ > ns2:requestedAttributeTypes> > <ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</ > ns2:requestedAttributeTypes> > <ns2:paging> > <ns1:startIndex>0</ns1:startIndex> > <ns1:numberResults>500</ns1:numberResults> > </ns2:paging> > </ns2:selector> > </ns2:get> > </SOAP-ENV:Body> > </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 > SOAPAction: "" > Content-Encoding: gzip > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:42:41 GMT > Expires: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:42:41 GMT > Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 > X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff > X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN > X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block > Server: GSE > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > <soap:Header> > <ns2:ResponseHeader xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/ > adwords/o/v200909" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909"> > <requestId>53624ba785e54f5b27d0150b6e3f7da5</requestId> > <operations>1</operations> > <responseTime>392</responseTime> > <units>6</units> > </ns2:ResponseHeader> > </soap:Header> > <soap:Body> > <ns2:getResponse xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/ > v200909" xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v200909";> > <ns2:rval> > <ns2:totalNumEntries>1</ns2:totalNumEntries> > <ns2:entries> > <ns2:data> > <ns2:key>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</ns2:key> > <ns2:value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- > instance" xsi:type="ns2:MonthlySearchVolumeAttribute"> > <ns2:Attribute.Type>MonthlySearchVolumeAttribute</ > ns2:Attribute.Type> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>6</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>5</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>4</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>3</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>2</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2010</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>1</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>12</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>11</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>10</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>9</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>8</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > <ns2:value> > <ns2:year>2009</ns2:year> > <ns2:month>7</ns2:month> > </ns2:value> > </ns2:value> > </ns2:data> > <ns2:data> > <ns2:key>KEYWORD</ns2:key> > <ns2:value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- > instance" xsi:type="ns2:KeywordAttribute"> > <ns2:Attribute.Type>KeywordAttribute</ > ns2:Attribute.Type> > <ns2:value> > <Criterion.Type>Keyword</Criterion.Type> > <text>café</text> > <matchType>BROAD</matchType> > </ns2:value> > </ns2:value> > </ns2:data> > </ns2:entries> > </ns2:rval> > </ns2:getResponse> > </soap:Body> > </soap:Envelope> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. 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