a) Try AddCrossClientReportDefinition.php - Make sure to add $selector-
>fields = array('AdNetworkType1', 'AdNetworkType2'... - one of those
two, and you'll get the information you need.b) This costs something like $.125/day, right? About $4/month? It will be much cheaper for your clients to query the server on your database than to query the API everytime it needs a nugget of information. It will also be much faster. c) You can use DownloadCrossClientReport.php and set a place on your server for that file to download. Then run another script to parse that information. Peruse the source of the two filenames listed above, and this will be quite easy for you. On Nov 1, 6:33 pm, "goo...@rndinteractive.com" <goo...@rndinteractive.com> wrote: > On 14 Apr 2010, a member of the Google Adwords API team (at the time) > wrote: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/adwords-api@googlegroups.com/msg07680.html > > Is that still answer true with the v201109 api? will it ever be > changing? > > The reports API is unsatisfying because our customers want the > information (stats broken down by search v. content networks) when > they click the stats page, they don't want a "okay, we need to prepare > a report, wait 15 minutes, then get and parse the report. come back in > a while" message. The work-around for that is to get a daily report > and parse it before the customer clicks - which is HIGHLY wasteful of > API units for many of our customers, who don't click _every_ day, but > might click _any_ day. Of course, we could have the report mailed to > us daily, except the mailed reports don't include the report as an > attachment, they include a link to it, and it requires a real > javascript-enabled browser to fetch the report through the login > screen (plus the AdWords center seems allergic to mailing the report > to an arbitrary location, so we'd have to change all the email > addresses associated with our accounts so that the emails come to us > first so we can find the reports, and forward the rest to the original > intended recipients). Unless I'm totally missing something obvious or > cool here, it seems reports are a painful option. > > In summary, what I want, is: > a) a way to get stats data broken down by network from the API on > demand, or > b) a way to tell the report-api to make a daily report which I can > download every day without an additional 500 credits to make a new > report every day, or > c) a way to get a report mailed to me daily (the _actual_ report > mailed to me, so I can parse it automatically. or at least a link to a > report that I can fetch with automatable credentials). > > P.S. Is there an api-team email address I could have been using so I > don't have to air my laundry in public? I'm a real, paying customer, > but none of the help->email options seemed to go to API related > questions and even the nice person on the phone told me "try the > forums?" Which has no guarantee that even a paying customer gets > support (and, of course, eliminates the possibility that customers get > any privacy). Awesome. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 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
