Hello Tom, The report metrics will return the historical stats while the Attributes will return the current state of the account. Could you share us the report definition along with the client customer Id, so I can take a look at the data you're pulling and then address your question? You can reply back via Reply privately to author option.
Thanks, Bharani, AdWords API Team On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 6:54:31 AM UTC-4, tom.wagst...@raisingit.com wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am accessing the Keyword Performance Report via the API (in Python3, > using the standard libraries) and I'm making two separate requests, one to > bring back a list of all my active (/enabled/eligible) keywords, and > another to pull performance data for those keywords. I do this because the > performance report returns data on inactive keywords that I want to filter > out. > > I'm puzzled because some active keywords are not being returned in the > keyword performance report. According to this advice [ > https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2404039?hl=en-GB] the > performance report will exclude keywords that got no impressions, but I see > plenty of keywords with zero impressions that *are* returned in the > keyword performance report. So why are the keywords missing from the > performance report? > > Here is the code snippet I use to access the (live) status data: > > def getKeywordStatusReport(client): > # Initialize appropriate service. > report_downloader = client.GetReportDownloader(version="v201806") > > > # Create report query. > report_query = (adwords.ReportQueryBuilder() > .Select("ExternalCustomerId", "CampaignId", "AdGroupId", > "Id", "Criteria", > "KeywordMatchType", "CampaignStatus", > "AdGroupStatus", "Status") > .From("KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT") > .Where("Status").EqualTo("ENABLED") > .Where("AdGroupStatus").EqualTo("ENABLED") > .Where("CampaignStatus").EqualTo("ENABLED") > .Build()) > > And the bit I use (the following day) to access the performance data: > > def getKeywordPerformanceReport(client): > # Initialize appropriate service. > report_downloader = client.GetReportDownloader(version="v201806") > > > # Create report query. > report_query = (adwords.ReportQueryBuilder() > .Select("ExternalCustomerId", "CampaignId", "AdGroupId", > "Id", "Criteria", > "KeywordMatchType", "Clicks", "Impressions", > "Cost", "Conversions", "Date") > .From("KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT") > .During("YESTERDAY") > .Build()) > > Why would this second query fail to return data on keywords that were > active the previous day? > > Cheers, > Tom > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 and Google Ads 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/2be721f1-4fe1-46b0-8d59-2a9682930776%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.