The speed to import your data to AdWords Editor tells a little. When you develop your own application you aim to replace AdWords Editor. Your application should be using a database, and move the data into the database. If you don't know what a database is you better hire someone who does. When the data is ready and in the database you need to move it to AdWords, to apply the changes to your AdWords campaigns. That may take a long time but the time should not be longer than the time AdWords editor needs to send the data to AdWords.
Indeed AdWords API has limitations. If you have basic access you get 10,000 operations in 24 hours - check the AdWords API documentation what an operation is. If you exceed that you have to ask Google for standard access. Again, check AdWords API documentation. You also have to work with the Google loadbalancer, which limits the number of contacts from a single IP address to five per second (or something like that). That last limit applies to everything behind that IP address, including end users checking gmail, other API software, AdWords Editor, Youtube etc. Further, the last AdWords API workshops contained some lectures about reporting. One of those lectures mentioned that the processing times of AdWords API servers depend on the load of those servers. Rush hours and quiet hours (and days of week, days of month etc.) were identified. If you have problems with your ISP consider moving all data and its processing to "the cloud". If you develop using Microsoft Technology then check Azure, they give out free processing time, storage etc. for testing purposes. I assume competing cloud providers have similar offerings. On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 1:00:24 PM UTC+1, Michal Birecki wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > As previous posts in my history state: I'm a non-technical founder of a > PPC platform. Even though I don't know how to code, I architect the > experience, features and economics of applications for developers to code, > so I do understand how things work, generally. > > We've developed a platform to push big data to AdWords, and until now > we've worked with the AdWords Editor to push our data to Google's servers. > Now that our algorithms have been proven to work, we're looking to push > data to AdWords using the API (first time we're using this API). > > From locally hosted tests, we estimate that it would take us roughly ~90 > hours to import 4GB worth of data into AdWords Editor (using a fairly > powerful Mac Pro machine), which then would have to be posted to the > AdWords servers (I don't even want to think about the number of hours it'll > take from an ISP giving us 12mbps upload speeds XD) > > The above noted estimates are OK for testing purposes, but we're well > aware that a need for an alternative push method needs to be developed next > using the AdWords API. Therefore before I dive into the next set of > features in the roadmap, I'd like to get a sense of the overall speed and > potential of the application in best and worst case scenarios - > specifically pushing big data using the API. > > My question to the community today is: How long would it take to push 4GB > worth of data to AdWords via the API at 1, 2 or 3 Gbps? > > I assume it would depend on where the application/platform would be hosted > (provider's location, bandwidth: outgoing Gbps, etc) -- however my guess is > that the API may also have some caps? > > Any insights would be helpful. > > Cheers, > > Michal > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/131a065d-52de-4197-8c87-97786050940c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
