Hi Ken, Yes, you can pull reports for the current day by setting the dateRangeType to TODAY; my experience is that this matches what your marketing guys should be able to view within the AdWords web UI. However, there are delays in reporting that depending on the type of report you are producing and the specific metrics that you're collecting: For example, most data can be delayed by at least three hours, the MCC summary view can be six hours behind, some reports are only produced once a day, and conversion events can take 24 hours to register.
You can familiarize yourself with the full range of issues by checking out the Common reporting issues documentation<http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=1713973&path=1713967&ctx=leftnav>; from a database consistency perspective, you should note that historical data can change over time, so you'll probably want to run reports for previous periods to update your old data to the current values. One thing that I'm not sure about is how often we should be hitting the API for reports? Data such as impressions and clicks can change every few seconds, and it's becoming a more common request for people to be able to view live dashboards with regular updates. I'd like to know what Google considers a reasonable refresh rate? For example, some dashboard solutions update every 30 seconds. I'd also like to know if whatever limits exists are applied at an account or a developer token level? Regards, Ewan -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
