Re: Huge amounts of data.

2012-09-19 Thread Ken Foster
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting They recommend up to 10 concurrent threads but can take more, although there is a potential RequestsPerSecond threshold you may hit. I believe they support gzip SOAP requests (both ways) which may help you. They have no hard-fast

Re: Adwords API - Upgrading to V201206 and OAuth

2012-09-19 Thread Ken Foster
BTW, you don't need to hard code the list of AccountID's, you can use the ManagedCustomerService to retrieve the account tree for an MCC. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:43:19 AM UTC-4, Alexander Nitschke wrote: > > You can use OAuth 2.0 but it isn't really necessary. Your assumption > regard

Re: Reporting on site link and ad extensions

2012-09-18 Thread Ken Foster
site links. > > If you want to get the results of individual sitelinks, use unique URLs > and a service like Google Analytics to distinguish them. > > Hope this helps. > > > On Monday, September 17, 2012 7:42:15 PM UTC+2, Ken Foster wrote: > >> I use the API t

Is intra-day reporting available

2012-09-17 Thread Ken Foster
I download 5 ad hoc reports every morning, Ad, Keyword, Account, Search Query and Managed Placements Performance reports. My marketing dept has asked me if I would be able to download some or all of these reports during the day (same day reporting). They are looking to get closer to a real-tim

Reporting on site link and ad extensions

2012-09-17 Thread Ken Foster
I use the API to download daily the Account, Ad, Keyword, Managed Placements and Search Query Performance reports. This seems to work for 95% of the data we are tracking. I'm told by our marketing team however that some destination URLs are not showing up in any of the reports. These all see

Re: How do I reset the AuthTokenCache using .Net SDK?

2012-08-22 Thread Ken Foster
o research that, I haven't used it before and I need a quick solution for right now. Thanks, Ken On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:17:46 AM UTC-4, Ken Foster wrote: > > I have a windows service that runs once a day and downloads a variety of > reports. I r

How do I reset the AuthTokenCache using .Net SDK?

2012-08-22 Thread Ken Foster
I have a windows service that runs once a day and downloads a variety of reports. I received this error today, GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_COOKIE_INVALID . Research indicates that my Authorization Token may have expired (a 2 week expiration, which would fit time wise with how long my service has been runn

Re: v13 early sunset ?

2012-02-22 Thread Ken Foster
FWIW, I had a 2 minute sleep between polling tries on a report download and it failed with the error every time eventually. I changed my polling sleep interval to 5 minutes and got it to work finally. Reduce the number of Pollings and the chances of being in the 90% get better. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~

v13 shutdown is a week early!!

2012-02-22 Thread Ken Foster
I am still running side-by-side reporting on v13 and v201109 to verify the updates are working. Today my v13 report stopped working with a "You are accessing an AdWords API service that has been discontinued." error. The Blog has stated on more than one occasion that v13 will work thru Feb 29th

Re: v13 early sunset ?

2012-02-22 Thread Ken Foster
So...if we keep trying the report should eventually work? I've run the report twice today, about 5 hours apart and it failed both times with that error. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://group

CampaignService and AdGroupService changes only

2012-01-16 Thread Ken Foster
I have to call CampaignService and AdGroupService every day for each Account (about 70 of them). A large number of Campaigns and AdGroups are old and do not change. Is there a way for me to just retrieve New or Changed Campaigns/AdGroups? There are 70+ Accounts, 6300+ Campaigns and 550,000+ Ad

v13 to v201101 Report Migration issue

2011-09-12 Thread Ken Foster
The Report Migration Guide for the AdPerformance (Creative) report in v13 says to map DestinationUrl to CreativeDestinatinoUrl in the Ad Performance Report in v201101. This works about 80% of the time. It looks like som

Keyword Performance Report by unique KeywordID

2011-09-12 Thread Ken Foster
I've tried several combinations of Report Field requested in clientSelectors (v21101) and can't figure out how to get a report that has just one row per Keyword Id. (KeywordPerformance Report). No matter what I include (or don't include) I always get multiple hits on the same Keyword Id, even

Re: GetAllAccountChanges problem

2011-08-10 Thread Ken Foster
The 2 problems I had, if it helps, is in the DateTimeRange the min and max date time formats have to be 'MMdd HHmmss' you can't just send 'MMdd'. And make sure the account (represented by the clientEmail) has campaigns. But other than that, it worked. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~

Re: How can i get all accounts infromation under the MCC account?

2011-08-05 Thread Ken Foster
I responded to another question you posted, but the answer is the same. Look at ServicedAccountService (get). In the C# Example library it is in GetAccountHierarchy.cs. You get a complete hierarchy of MCC and client accounts with name, id, whether they are MCC or not, the email address associat

Re: How can i determine that given userid is MCC account or non MCC account?

2011-08-05 Thread Ken Foster
Do you have the C# API and Examples? If so, checkout v201101 GetAccountHierarchy.cs, it uses the ServicedAccountService service to get a complete list of accounts under the MCC. One of the properties for each account returned is CanManageClients, a true is MCC a false is a normal account. --

Re: ClientID

2011-08-05 Thread Ken Foster
I believe ClientID (or ClientEmail) and Email are two separate things. Email/Password is the authentication, ClientID (or clientEmail) is used to determine what account(s) to use in the data set. I don't use OAuth however, so I may be talking out of my a$$. But with ClientLogon Authorization th

Re: How to request all conversion types using v201101 API

2011-08-04 Thread Ken Foster
If I download the Search_Query_Performance report for YESTERDAY without the ConversionTypeName and ConversionCategoryName fields I get a large list of items as expected. If I then download the same report with those 2 columns, and removing the incompatible columns I get a much smaller list...aga

I got Report Download working for an MCC account

2011-08-03 Thread Ken Foster
Based on an error I was getting, and several posts in this forum about MCC support not being finished in v201101, I assumed I would have to do a workaround and download 3 reports for every one of 65 accounts and combine data on my end. However, I found a bug in the C# AdWords API code that was

Re: How to request all conversion types using v201101 API

2011-08-03 Thread Ken Foster
I understand that. In v13 some of the reports had a similar restriction. What I wanted to know was, what is inclusive in 'etc' that you and the documentation keep throwing out. I'd rather not remove one column at a time until I no longer get an error. If I wanted to include ConversionTypeName

Re: How to request all conversion types using v201101 API

2011-08-03 Thread Ken Foster
The comment in all the Report definitions for a couple conversion fields is "Not compatible with non-conversion stats (AverageCpc, Clicks, etc.)." I successfully retrieved a report with every column but ConversionTypeName and ConversionCategoryName, but if I wanted those columns, what columns do

Re: V13 long response time

2011-08-03 Thread Ken Foster
Yes, v13 reports take a long time. I've been playing with the v201101 API and the same/similar report takes about 3 minutes. If you can upgrade, I highly recommend it. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.c

Re: Can I use the same ReportDefinition for different clientEmails?

2011-08-02 Thread Ken Foster
Bumping this with a summarization. Am I right in that my only choices right now are: 1) Stick with v13 until v201101 is really done? 2) Create 195 ReportDefinitions (65 clients x 3 reports) and run all 195 every day combining results on my end? (what would cost of that be?) Is that it? Is there

Re: Is there a report to get all clients in an MCC account?

2011-07-29 Thread Ken Foster
That is a lot of what I was looking for, thanks. It gives me the hierarchy. It doesn't give me any account information to let me know if the account is 'active' or not, but that is not a showstopper. I appreciate the quick response. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also f

Can I use the same ReportDefinition for different clientEmails?

2011-07-29 Thread Ken Foster
OK, this lack of reporting for MCC accounts is really becoming a pain. I thought I could do a temporary workaround by creating a ReportDefinition and iterating through a list of clientEmails downloading that report for each one. It looks like, however, that I have to define a separate ReportDef

Re: aggregationTypes thru adwords API v201101

2011-07-29 Thread Ken Foster
Try Campaign Performance Report. I think the Ad Performance Report aggregates at Keyword level, you aren't including KeywordId, but if you did, my guess is they would be different for each of those 5. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion gr

Is there a report to get all clients in an MCC account?

2011-07-29 Thread Ken Foster
I've been tasked with updating our reporting from the v13 API to the latest (v201101). Unfortunately the cross-client reporting isn't working yet. So is there an API query I can make to give me all the clients under an MCC account? That way I could iterate through them and download a report for