AdWords API Re: Metropolitan Names

2009-05-27 Thread Swanand
Hello, Thank you very much for the quick response. A .csv file is as good as an XML entry for me. Best regards, Swanand On May 27, 10:42 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello, > >  There's no way to get that information directly from the > ReportService. However, the next release of the adwo

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread PPL
Hello Jeff, The following are the SOAP request and response for your reference. I've made 2 request both have the same error. May 28, 2009 11:39:01 AM org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender invoke FINE: Enter: HTTPSender::invoke May 28, 2009 11:39:01 AM org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSend

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread PPL
Hello Jeff, The following is the requestId of the SOAP header. http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"; soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/ adwords/v13">c3c4ea8c6cc23fe0d2ac617cc7a7774e I'm looking forward to your reply. Thanks a lot. On May 28, 3:50 am, AdWor

AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad

2009-05-27 Thread von journ
There are a lot of limitations if we run reports to get object 1) we cannot get all properties of objects 2) it is slow to run reports to get small campaign objects 3) if object has no performance data then it does not appear in reports. We need to find such bad perf objects and optimize them A

AdWords API Re: for API call, is authentication done every time

2009-05-27 Thread von journ
My testing is against sandbox because that is free. In production, we find it very slow in downloading our account with 400K keywords (takes 1.5 hours). So we are investigating why is that. One of the things we plan to improve is to cache the service proxy and hope it can have authentication t

AdWords API Re: Limitations on API for the Google Traffic Estimator?

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Shimon, What kind of limitations are you referring to? Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 27, 3:28 pm, Shimon wrote: > Does anybody know if there is any limitations on the API for the > Google Traffic Estimator? > > Kind regards, > Shimon Sandlerwww.shimonsandler.com --~--~

AdWords API Re: Maximum number of "API only" links from managed account to MCC

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Hans, An MCC is required for API access in the sense that Developer and Application tokens can only be granted to an MCC account. Once you have a valid set of tokens, though, you have the option of using any AdWords account's email and password for the "email" and "password" SOAP headers,

AdWords API Re: adgroups updated in web interface is not view that way by API

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Ced, It's not really a common use case, but if you're seeing a delay on the order of minutes before the update from the web interface takes effect then I don't have any reason to think there's some deeper underlying problem. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 27, 3:35 pm, Ce

AdWords API Limitations on API for the Google Traffic Estimator?

2009-05-27 Thread Shimon
Does anybody know if there is any limitations on the API for the Google Traffic Estimator? Kind regards, Shimon Sandler www.shimonsandler.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group

AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, I'd recommend running reports to retrieve that data rather than looping through all the object with various getXYZ() calls. The API units consumed should also be considerably less when running reports for an account of that size. http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/Repor

AdWords API Re: for API call, is authentication done every time

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, Are you talking about the AdWords API v13 or about the new v2009 Sandbox release? Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 27, 2:54 pm, "vonjo...@yahoo.com" wrote: > I do not see any speed difference if 1) create a new webservice every > time when making API call. or 2) use the

AdWords API Re: Maximum number of "API only" links from managed account to MCC

2009-05-27 Thread HK
Thanks again, Jeff. I really appreciate your time getting this straightened out. Based on http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=15181&hl=en_US, I was under the impression that an MCC account was required to make API calls. Is that not the case? Also, thinking through ways to

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, Could you turn on logging in the Java client library (as per the instructions at http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-java/source/browse/trunk/README) and take a look at the SOAP response you get back with the error message in it. Could you let us know what the value of the "reque

AdWords API Re: adgroups updated in web interface is not view that way by API

2009-05-27 Thread Ced
Hello Jeff, I'm aware that the adgroup name must be unique. But I renamed it in the web interface and it takes like 15 minutes before I see the changes using the google api. Is this normal? Ced On May 26, 11:51 am, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hello Ced, > >  You can't have two ad groups with

AdWords API Re: Maximum number of "API only" links from managed account to MCC

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Hans, That limitation is independent of the version of the AdWords API you're using. It's a fundamental design constraint built in to the AdWords system. Note that you do not need to use the login credentials of an MCC account to make AdWords API requests. You can just specify a valid lo

AdWords API for API call, is authentication done every time

2009-05-27 Thread vonjo...@yahoo.com
I do not see any speed difference if 1) create a new webservice every time when making API call. or 2) use the same webservice for every API call My original thought is that if I make the first call (such as CampaignService), Google will issue a ticket to my client app (or hiden in service header

AdWords API Slowness in Calling adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad

2009-05-27 Thread vonjo...@yahoo.com
I have a customer with about 400K keywords, 80K text ads, 8k adgroups and 200 campaigns. I use adWords API to download (loop through all the objects) and save to sql database. It takes me about 1.5 hours to finish the downloading. my CPU is about 20% on average. so I guess most time is spend in th

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread Keporio
I am a member of PPL above. Here is additional info We are using java library "com.google.api.adwords.lib ver 2.2.0" provided by Google We use the below method to create the request header so that the client_email won't be setted in the header, (we suppose using this method excludes client_email

AdWords API Re: Maximum number of "API only" links from managed account to MCC

2009-05-27 Thread HK
Thanks, Jeff. Is this limitation still present in v2009? It seems that this would be a common issue for merchants working with different vendors managing various parts of their paid search business. I'm wondering if there's any best practices/workarounds here that you might have heard of or if it

AdWords API Re: Metropolitan Names

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, There's no way to get that information directly from the ReportService. However, the next release of the adwords4r client library should follow a trend started with the Python client library and provide a local CSV file that contains mappings between metro codes and area names. You can

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread Keporio
We are using java library "com.google.api.adwords.lib ver 2.2.0" provided by Google We use the below method to create the request header so that the client_email won't be setted in the header, (we suppose using this method excludes client_email from the header..) Method: com.google.api.adwords.

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread Keporio
> Even the same error occurs when we used > com.jit.igas3.sao.ReportSao.ReportSao(String email, String password, > String clientEmail, String developerToken, String applicationToken, > boolean isSandBox) > to specify the client account and excluded ClientEmails and > CrossClient fields from the De

AdWords API Re: Maximum number of "API only" links from managed account to MCC

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello Hans, The information in that help center article still applies. Only two MCC links to a given AdWords account can be active at once, so you would not be able to add an additional MCC link. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On May 26, 5:52 pm, HK wrote: > Hi, > > According > toh

AdWords API Re: Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread Keporio
Amending to the PPL's information above I am a memeber of the PPL's project. Here is more info. We are using java library "com.google.api.adwords.lib ver 2.2.0" provided by Google We use the below method to create the request header so that the client_email won't be setted in the header, (we sup

AdWords API Re: Can't execute KeywordToolService function and TrafficeEstimatorService function.

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hello, Have you checked to see if anything has changed with the link between the MCC account you specify in the "email" header and the AdWords account you specify in the "clientEmail" header? If it's not caused by that, then you should be able to turn logging on by following the procedure desc

AdWords API Metropolitan Names

2009-05-27 Thread Swanand
Hello, Is there a way to get the metropolitan region instead of the metro code in a report? More specifically, I am downloading a Geo Performance report, with following details: selectedReportType = 'Geographic' aggregationTypes = 'Campaign' name = report_name selectedCol

AdWords API Metropolitan Names

2009-05-27 Thread Swanand
Hello, In the Geographic Performance report, is there a way to get human readable metropolitan area names. For eg instead of metro="803", I'd like, metro-name="Los Angeles CA". I do not want to make separate API call just for the metro name. I am using v13 API through adwords4r ruby gem. A few d

AdWords API Re: Bump on impression share feature request

2009-05-27 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Okay! We're live with the impression share columns (exactMatchImpShare, impShare, lostImpShareBudget, and lostImpShareRank) in the documentation, and anyone interested in those columns should feel free to use them. You'll find them at the bottom of the list of optional columns for the Campaign rep

AdWords API Mutually exclusive in columns error when report downloading.

2009-05-27 Thread PPL
Hello, I'm facing the error message "The following columns are mutually exclusive : [Clicks]" when I scheduled the Creative and Keyword reports. I'm downloading the report from the context of MCC account. I didn't provided any client email in the request header. I set crossClient field to true and