Re: LINE_TOO_WIDE error but < 25 characters

2010-05-21 Thread timprepscius
Interesting, utf-8 limit? (~50chars) On May 20, 9:36 am, joel wrote: > Hi, I'm receiving an AdError LINE_TOO_WIDE on an Ad Title, but it's > only 18 characters when you remove the DKI. Are there unique rules for > JP text? > > Here is the Ad Title generating the error: > > {KeyWord:赤坂エクセルホテル東急}に宿

AdWords API Re: api v2009 - mutate

2010-01-30 Thread timprepscius
maybe this? http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/d72456c0e824a17c/265de0571139fc75 On Jan 29, 12:50 pm, jeff wrote: > we used to be able to update bid without setting the rest criterion > attributes. with v2009, we got errors like 'matchtype, text... are > required'. d

AdWords API Re: BoomUserList

2010-01-29 Thread timprepscius
Just out of curiosity. Were the keywords of type BoomUserList special in any way? On Jan 23, 11:22 pm, pete wrote: > ok - cheers > > pete -- 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-...@goo

AdWords API Re: keyword text keyword match type keyword id

2009-12-23 Thread timprepscius
t; > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Dec 22, 5:54 pm, timprepscius wrote: > > > > > Just wondering, > > > Why do I need to specify keyword text and keyword match type when > > modifying a keyword's status or bid etc? > > > Shouldn&

AdWords API keyword text keyword match type keyword id

2009-12-22 Thread timprepscius
Just wondering, Why do I need to specify keyword text and keyword match type when modifying a keyword's status or bid etc? Shouldn't a customerId + adgroupId + keywordId be sufficient? If these values which I pass in are somehow wrong (which I hope they never are), will the keyword's text and ma

AdWords API Re: authentication token clarification request

2009-12-14 Thread timprepscius
s a number of > defined error types and reasons.  You can find these under the base > type ApiError for each service: > >  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/CampaignServ... > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Dec 13, 10:39 pm, timp

AdWords API authentication token clarification request

2009-12-13 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, The client login api specifies that authentication tokens expire in "about a week." What does this mean? Does this mean, 6-8 days? 4-10 days? Or 0 -> inf? I'd sorta actually like to just request new authentication tokens every X days, and then not worry about having to figure out the

AdWords API Re: keyword impressions

2009-12-11 Thread timprepscius
gt;  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_ratesh... > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Dec 11, 2:08 pm, timprepscius wrote: > > > > > Ah.. I'm > > seeinghttp://code.google.com/apis/adwords/v2009/docs/reference/Ta

AdWords API Re: keyword impressions

2009-12-11 Thread timprepscius
m On Dec 11, 1:53 pm, timprepscius wrote: > Greetings, > > We have a client that wishes to broadcast a brand message, and so he > is more interested in impressions, rather than clicks. > > We were hoping basically to take bunches of keywords based on his > products,

AdWords API keyword impressions

2009-12-11 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, We have a client that wishes to broadcast a brand message, and so he is more interested in impressions, rather than clicks. We were hoping basically to take bunches of keywords based on his products, and then forecast them for impressions. However, the "traffic estimator" doesn't retu

AdWords API Re: Truncated keyword structure report

2009-12-09 Thread timprepscius
You may try downloading the report via a zipped http stream, rather than a zip. I believe this gets around the size restrictions, and provides you with transparent zipping. on 2009-11-12 downloaded a report 770M .. so yah, size restrictions don't seem to be enforced -tim On Nov 18, 5:23 pm, AdWo

AdWords API Re: Very new to the API and PHP

2009-12-05 Thread timprepscius
You know, this is in no way meant to be discouraging: However there is this thing called the "adwords editor" http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/index.html It may provide you with all the functionality you need and no development cost/time. When you have enough profit/revenue to justify

AdWords API please confirm simultaneous report strategy

2009-12-05 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, So, I've changed our downloading of reports from one massive report for each main MCCs, to reports for each client email. I would like to confirm that the next step in the strategy will work all of the time, before implementing. (based on documentation it seems it should, but should a

AdWords API Re: reports timing out

2009-12-04 Thread timprepscius
f get() calls to retrieve the campaign data?  In what situations has > it been helpful to have a complete record of your accounts locally? > > Thanks for the insight, > - Eric > > On Dec 3, 8:16 pm, timprepscius wrote: > > > > > I haven't taken a look at t

AdWords API Re: reports timing out

2009-12-03 Thread timprepscius
c 2, 6:16 pm, AdWords API Advisor wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Out of curiosity, what is your use case that involves downloading the > entire MCC?  I can't guarantee that the v2009 API will address your > concerns, but at the very least I could pass your feedback to the core > engine

AdWords API Re: reports timing out

2009-12-02 Thread timprepscius
ps split it into multiple reports? > > Best, > - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team > > On Dec 2, 2:06 pm, timprepscius wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > Has anything changed about the allocation of resources for reports in > > the last week? > > > All o

AdWords API reports timing out

2009-12-02 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, Has anything changed about the allocation of resources for reports in the last week? All of a sudden a few reports are constantly timing out. Meaning they never ever finish. They are large, however, they previously timed out maybe once a month. (except about 1.5 years ago they time

AdWords API Re: Revisions of yesterdays report data

2009-08-20 Thread timprepscius
Do not necessarily believe what was written by Zweitze. I pull 3 weeks. I've seen clicks change at >2 weeks ago. On Aug 19, 4:23 pm, Zweitze wrote: > It depends on what you need to store. > > Impressions, average Position: > Three to six hours after midnight according to the timezone of the > a

AdWords API Re: soft delete vs. hard delete

2009-06-17 Thread timprepscius
BTW, things can actually get quite screwy if you get statistics from long long ago. I have a situation where I have ids with statistics (and their container ids) for accounts/campaigns/adgroups/everything, that I cannot get any info for.. It is quite a mystery actually. For a while, for the thos

AdWords API Re: TV ads

2009-05-22 Thread timprepscius
e, > whether they know of any other ad types that might come back as empty. > Once I know, I'll let you know. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On May 21, 2:08 pm, timprepscius wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > Would somebody either point me t

AdWords API Re: TV ads

2009-05-21 Thread timprepscius
0, 2:09 pm, timprepscius wrote: > Greetings, > > During my synchronization yesterday I got the following row: > > campaignid="###" campaign="XXX YYY" adgroupid="###" > adgroup="AdGroup #1" headline="" desc1="&q

AdWords API TV ads

2009-05-20 Thread timprepscius
Greetings, During my synchronization yesterday I got the following row: Which, my synchronizer didn't like, cause creativeType="" I'm looking in the UI, and I see that this ad refers to a TV ad. Or presumably so, there is only one ad. So.. Are all tv ads creativeType="" ?? Or do our accou

AdWords API Re: Question about the upcoming change history, or maybe don't want it afterall.

2009-05-04 Thread timprepscius
Just saw, 2009 sandbox announcement.. will read docs. maybe already there :-) On May 4, 10:40 am, timprepscius wrote: > Hey there, > > I've been refactoring my google code. > Something that would be ultra cool..  Well, in the api-this-isn't- > actually-cool ultra-c

AdWords API Re: Question about the upcoming change history, or maybe don't want it afterall.

2009-05-04 Thread timprepscius
id (and I don't intend for this to be > glib), I can't comment publicly about whether specific functionality > will or will not make it into a future release of the AdWords API. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Mar 31, 9:57 am,timprepscius wrote: >

AdWords API Re: Help

2009-04-08 Thread timprepscius
I love the title to this posting. On Apr 7, 6:01 am, shailu wrote: > Dear Sir/Mam > > Please let me know how can I fatch specified keywords by google > adwords using C#.Net application. Please tell me step by step. > > thanks > Shailesh --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

AdWords API Question about the upcoming change history, or maybe don't want it afterall.

2009-03-31 Thread timprepscius
So one of the things I'm doing these days is keeping track of all of the changes within google.. And it turns out you guys are adjusting the first_page_cpc for almost every keyword by little micro amounts everyday. Before, I thought that it may _drastically_ cut down on bandwidth/ processing if I

AdWords API Re: Is there Adwords API Local Database in Java with mysql or oracle?

2009-03-14 Thread timprepscius
Actually I believe there should be another way.. I've never tried, however: I think google has an adwords editor. And I believe that adwords editor is saving data in a mysql'esque format via one of those embedded databases.. It would be interesting to see if that database it is saving to could

AdWords API Re: Explain sandbox reporting?

2009-01-22 Thread timprepscius
Since you are new here, and seem to be expecting things to be of "amazing google" quality... (as what I expected myself) Don't hold your breath. Google's adwords api is ridden with bugs, both as in, "things don't work", and "things are incorrectly specified." Google's quality control doesn't se

AdWords API Re: Cron job for API

2008-12-19 Thread timprepscius
I'm surprised this isn't part of the documentation yet.. I'm also surprised the documentation isn't a wiki yet that lives on a little patch of grass on the top of a hill. It would be so happy there I'm sure. Savithacavale, do a search on "settlement" or "books closed"... in this list. On D

AdWords API Re: Using Google API for large number of camapigns

2008-11-13 Thread timprepscius
If I am not mistaken Jan actually meant to say: No, there is no bulk upload mechanism. Yes you could do it, but via 20,000 or more api calls- for which google charges exorbitant rates. (Except now they have a 'christmas special') Why don't you try their adword's editor.. which uses a closed ex

AdWords API Re: Emails with colon

2008-10-29 Thread timprepscius
Oh.. By the way.. There is a bug with e-mails with nested mcc accounts.. If I have an MCC account "MainMccAccount" that contains an MCC "NestedMccAccount" and that contains a normal account "Normal Acccount". And I say to your service.. Give me all email addresses for my MainMccAccount. I do no

AdWords API Re: Retrieval of paused elements

2008-10-27 Thread timprepscius
Umm... Since this a feature request thread. I would much rather have a way to get all elements that have been modified/created since a specified date. In a report.. In a cross client structure report. Or I'd take anything that returns just this filtered information. :-) -tim On Oct 27, 7:1

AdWords API Re: first page bid

2008-10-22 Thread timprepscius
documentation bug.. So you go to: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report_keyword.html And it says in that upper right hand pull down "v13" Within that pull down it says "diffs" But there are none! Oh well, there must have been _no_ changes between v12 and v13..

AdWords API Re: impression value does not match between adwoard web service api and adwords.google.com web page

2008-10-11 Thread timprepscius
Ahh... Hey Google!, when he realizes the answer to this question, don't you think he will think to himself, "why was this not documented? Why is this issue not on the pages for defined report?" I certainly did. -tim http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-help-advanced/browse_thread/thread/d09

AdWords API 3000000

2008-10-04 Thread timprepscius
Umm.. So I'm documenting a bit more of my google soap/db implementation.. And I've run across this note in my code... // wtf is up with 300, if a keyword id is 300 everything about it is wrong. I've done some searches in this forum and found: http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/br

AdWords API Re: updateCriteria documentation

2008-09-30 Thread timprepscius
Type doesn't need to be > specified. I need to dig up some sample code for a client library in a > language that actually takes the xsi:type approach rather than the > criterionType approach to make sure that that still applies. If for > some reason the AdWords API is no longer accepting xs

AdWords API updateCriteria documentation

2008-09-28 Thread timprepscius
it would be useful to have: must set criterionType when updating criteria, even though the adgroupId and Id should theoretically specify an exact item. criterionType CriterionType The concrete type of this criterion. Generally, this attribute is read only, but **may*** (not real

AdWords API Re: TotalConversionValue

2008-09-19 Thread timprepscius
Nevermind.. convValue is not in the gdollarunits.. it's in regular dollar units.. was converting (incorrectly)... would be nice if that was in the documentation of course... :-) -tim On Sep 18, 8:15 pm, timprepscius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am requesting

AdWords API TotalConversionValue

2008-09-18 Thread timprepscius
Hello, I am requesting TotalConversionValue in a daily-creative report on an mcc account, with at least one account within using google analytics... as per: http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/adwords_api_report_creative.html I am always getting back zero as the convValue from google..

AdWords API Re: what is the maximum size of a report now?

2008-09-17 Thread timprepscius
sometimes people create things and then delete them, after they get impressions, and those impressions would just end up as blanks.. And that would be bad. But I do know exactly when I synchronized last. -tim On Sep 17, 3:08 pm, timprepscius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually a new reco

AdWords API Re: what is the maximum size of a report now?

2008-09-17 Thread timprepscius
Actually a new record for xml size! 699692080 I don't know why you guys don't have a tsv direct mechanism.. oh well.. 699692080 xml = 303004310 tsv On Sep 17, 1:34 pm, timprepscius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering.. Do you guys see a bell curve during the day for

AdWords API Re: what is the maximum size of a report now?

2008-09-17 Thread timprepscius
small chunks during the day.. (if you knew that a certain time was better) On Sep 17, 1:17 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Tim, > >  Thanks, that clarifies things. I'll pass that along. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > O

AdWords API Re: what is the maximum size of a report now?

2008-09-17 Thread timprepscius
ip-ed file, not the > uncompressed report size, so I'm interested in finding that out. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Sep 13, 10:30 am, timprepscius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > xml over zip http connection.. > > > On Sep 12, 4:

AdWords API what is the maximum size of a report now?

2008-09-10 Thread timprepscius
I just did a report that's >400 megabytes.. So obviously the old cut off does not apply.. Is there a cut off? Thanks! -tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this g

AdWords API Re: Integrating Statistical Data Through the API

2008-08-28 Thread timprepscius
Please be aware that google's documentation is incomplete and that your code may not function as you think it should.. Even if written to specs. Google's api has many hidden "gotchas." It would probably be good for you to do a search of this forum and the web for "bug" and "problem", maybe "wtf

AdWords API first page bid

2008-08-24 Thread timprepscius
If this has been addressed previously, please just point me to the right post. Can you give us some prediction on the implementation of the first page bid within the adwords api? Will this item be available within the keyword reports? Will there still a minimum_bid cut off? Or will we essentia