Hi Kevin, There are no hard limits defined. As Zweitze correctly asserts, you could run into RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT errors in which case his recommendation of dynamically cutting your the report date range is completely valid.
Best, - David Torres - AdWords API Team On Friday, March 15, 2013 8:02:33 AM UTC-4, Zweitze wrote: > > The oldest date in my database is in August 2002, which was retrieved less > than a year ago. > I recall that with the introduction of 'new' reports in 2009 all size > limits were lifted. You would either get a report withing 5 minutes or an > error after 5 minutes. The error is, very confusing, > RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED. > Actually I get that error much sooner, after 2-3 minutes, and sometimes > within a minute. When that happens, my code just cuts the period in half > and then requests for the first and second sub-period. When another > RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED occurs that period is cut in half again etc. > I tried to reconstruct how big a report can be, but got nowhere. It really > seems to depend on the time required to calculate the report, not on the > actual size. To get an idea, I noticed that including the field > ConversionTypeName will get you RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT much sooner: without > that field reports are allowed to be at least twice as big without getting > into problems. > > > > > > On Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:42:51 PM UTC+1, Ewan Heming wrote: >> >> Hi Kevin, >> >> These are just some helpful predefined constants, but you can specify any >> date range you like using a custom start and end date. I'm not sure about >> official limits as I can't find them in the documentation anymore, but I've >> been able to successfully download reports that dated back to 2005 and >> reports that were ~1GB uncompressed, so, within reason, you shouldn't have >> a problem. The last time I saw a documented limit it was 250MB compressed, >> but that was for the old v13 API that has been deprecated for some time now. >> >> 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
