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--- On Thu, 5/28/09, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote: > From: AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > Subject: AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling adWords API to download > campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad > To: "AdWords API Forum" <adwords-api@googlegroups.com> > Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 3:46 PM > > Hello Von, > > Account Structure reports (http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/ > developer/adwords_api_report_structure.html) will provide > you with > most of the basic attributes of your AdWords objects, > regardless of > whether there is any performance data available for them. > Of course, a > Structure report won't return any metrics about performance > data at > all, so if your goal is to both get a complete picture of > your > accounts each day and also get performance data, a > Structure report > alone won't do it for you. > > While it's true that running a report to get what you > describe as a > small campaign object can be slower than the equivalent > getXYZ() > methods, in practical terms you wouldn't be running a > report just > against a single small campaign. You can run reports > against a whole > account's worth of campaigns, or multiple accounts (all > report types > other than Account Structure can be run across multiple > clients at a > time). The ReportService is designed to handle retrieving > large > amounts of data efficiently. > > To address your other question, the AdWords API v13 will > always > authenticate each SOAP request based on the values in the > "email" and > "password" headers. It's not possible to cache anything and > bypass > this authentication, but I don't think that would be much > by way of > performance gains if there was. If you're really looking to > speed up > your current approach instead of adopting reports, do make > sure that > you're running your getXYZ() requests in parallel, either > from > multiple threads within the same process or from multiple > processes. > We recommend that you stay under four concurrent AdWords > API requests > at any given time. If you're currently only making one > request at a > time, you should see a significant reduction in your > overall run time > with that approach. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On May 27, 9:08 pm, von journ <vonjo...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > API call cost is surely a big concern to us, No other > search engine charges that except for google ... > > > > back to the topic, we like to know if the slowness is > by design, or if it is our own program has problems. > > > > thanks > > > > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > > > From: AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > > > Subject: AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling > adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad > > > To: "AdWords API Forum" <adwords-api@googlegroups.com> > > > Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 11:24 PM > > > > > 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/ReportService.html > > > > > Cheers, > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > > > On May 27, 2:53 pm, "vonjo...@yahoo.com" > > > <vonjo...@yahoo.com> > > > wrote: > > > > 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 the network of calling > google > > > adwords API. > > > > > > Is this slowness as expected, if not, what > are the > > > normal speed of > > > > getting all these objects downloaded to my > machine? > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
