Hi David, AdWords API PHP library may be a good starting place to get this done. It takes care of API call details, and has working code samples for making calls against TargetingIdeaService. You can host it on your server, write a simple page to accept HTTP POST parameters and print the results as csv. See the following links for more details:
- http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/ - http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/source/browse/trunk/examples/v200909/GetRelatedKeywords.php Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Team On Jun 21, 7:38 am, digloo <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought maybe someone already has code that does this or can write > it easily. I'm really swamped at the moment, and don't really want to > get distracted by having to dig into all of this API stuff just for a > couple of simple functions. > > I'm doing some keyword research right now using the Google External > Keyword Tool, and I jump between it and a custom program I wrote in > Delphi. It's rather tedious. I'd like to have the Delphi program > interact with the API directly. Unfortunately, Delphi's WSDL compiler > has been buggy forever and it's unlikely to ever get fixed. So I'm > looking at using either a php component (php4delphi) to generate the > needed interface inside the app, or else use some standalone php/ > python/etc scripts that can be accessed using simple HTTP POST > requests (easy to deal with in Delphi). > > Here's what I'm doing now: > > --------------------- > > I paste a few keywords into the External Keyword Tool and look for > synonyms (~150) that are searched frequently. I sort by Local Search > volume (descending) and save this list to disk as a CSV file, since I > re-use it. > > Once I have this list, I'll import it into my Delphi app, add some > additional words and generate some permutations. > > There are 200-600 words in this list. > > I take this new list and paste it back into the External Keyword Tool > and do another search. > > This time I'm not interested in synonyms; just Global search > frequencies for the exact keywords I supply, both Broad and Phrase > match results. > > I save this list to disk as a CSV file, then copy the top 10 or so > keywords with the highest Global search freqs back to my other program > and do some more stuff with the data. > > --------------------- > > So there are two types of searches, both of which accept a list of > keywords, and return a table of results in CSV format. > > The first takes a few keywords, does a search for synonyms, returns > top ~200 results based on Local Search Volume. > > The second takes a longer list (200-600 keywords), does a search for > exact results, and returns the Broad and Phrase match data for Global > Search Volume. > > Anybody got some code that does this? > > As I said, anything I could put on a server that can take HTTP POST > requests and return the data as CSV data would be fine: php, python, > perl, whatever. (php is preferred!) > > Thanks! > -David -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
