I have the same need to know the account creation date. In my case, I need to know the account creation date because I'm building a reporting service that queries the CAMPAIGN_PERFORMANCE_REPORT (AdHoc reports). The algorithm I'm using is to start with today's date, then query backwards (reverse chronologically) one month at a time. The problem is I need a reliable way to know when to stop querying. My current method is to stop querying when I get 0 records for a query. I'm not sure if this is reliable as I'm guessing it's possible that there could be no activity for a month (perhaps when campaigns are paused)?
Knowing the account creation date would give me a reliable way to stop querying since this will ensure that I'm querying the entire period of the account's existence. Zweitze - I will try your way of using CampaignService. It's too bad the account creation date is not returned in the CustomerService.get() call. Any better ideas? On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:41:17 AM UTC-7, Zweitze wrote: > > I use a different, slightly better method: > > Use campaignservice, just get campaigns and make sure you ask for the > campaign start date. The campaign start date is NOT the date the campaign > was created, still, it is usual earlier than the date of the first > impression. > > To get the earliest date of an account I ask for campaigns sorted on > campaign start date and limit the results to 1, costing me 1 unit. > > Another direction would be the customersyncservice, just get the date of > the first change in the account. BTW I never tested this. > > Hope this helps > > > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:20:00 AM UTC+2, Oliver wrote: > >> Thanks. However, I think the first date in the report will be the date >> the account started accruing impressions rather than the account creation >> date (since Date prevents zero impressions). >> >> I tested it in one of our accounts and confirmed this is the case. >> >> Hence, I guess the account creation date cannot be retrieved unless the >> account started accruing impressions on the same day it was created. >> Oliver >> >> >> On Monday, September 10, 2012 4:21:11 PM UTC+1, Danial Klimkin wrote: >>> >>> Hello Oliver, >>> >>> >>> I meant the data itself. In a report with the date column the very early >>> date present could be the one you are looking for. >>> >>> >>> -Danial, AdWords API Team. >>> >>> >>> On Monday, September 10, 2012 6:23:59 PM UTC+4, Oliver wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Danial, >>>> >>>> Can you please elaborate? >>>> >>>> I presume you mean get an account performance report, specifying >>>> ALL_TIME as the date range. Correct? The report returned has this in the >>>> first line: >>>> >>>> <report name> (All Time) >>>> >>>> I can't see the date you were referring to? >>>> >>>> >>>> Oliver >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19:58 PM UTC+1, Danial Klimkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello spetz, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I believe this date comes from the very first row of impressions data >>>>> ran with no filter rather than from any stored value. The API does not >>>>> provide the account creation date. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -Danial, AdWords API Team. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, September 7, 2012 4:21:14 PM UTC+4, spetz wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, what I want to show in my application is the start date >>>>>> that you see when you click on "All time" from the date template list in >>>>>> your Adwords account. >>>>>> >>>>>> forexample if you've created your account in 1 January 2012, you will >>>>>> see this date and today's date if you click to "All time" reports in >>>>>> Adwords. So I would like to show this date when I attemp to get campaign >>>>>> list for all time (I use "01/01/1970" as starDate in dateRange selector, >>>>>> so >>>>>> I get this date in the campaignStats object as response!) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 5 Eylül 2012 Çarşamba 18:06:11 UTC+3 tarihinde Oliver yazdı: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Are you asking about the creation date of a campaign (as in question >>>>>>> title) or the creation date of an account (as in your question body)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If for a campaign, you can find this out by fetching the campaign's >>>>>>> "StartDate" from the CampaignService object. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not sure a start date of an account is available anywhere. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Oliver >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:37:30 PM UTC+1, spetz wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> hey there, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I query campaigns in "all time" as google adwords does. I know that >>>>>>>> I could fetch the whole campaign data by setting start date to >>>>>>>> something >>>>>>>> 01/01/1900 and it works as I see the same results (amounts and numbers >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> mean) with adwords. but the question is what is the exact start date >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> that result set, that is not year 1900 for example. This means Google >>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>> able to show the creation date of an account to use it to fetch all >>>>>>>> data >>>>>>>> from the beginning, how will we do that using API? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
