Hi Chuck, Your developer token is on basic access, which limits the number of operations to 10000 per day. You can apply for Standard access, as explained on https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/ratesheet and that should address your issues.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:23:50 PM UTC-4, Chuck Reeves wrote: > > I am really lost for a solution for this problem. We manage shopping > campaigns for close to 100 accounts. The number of SKU's for each account > ranges from 200 to 80,000. > With PLA campaigns, we can set up one keyword for each product. That > allows us to place bids down to the sku level. In trying to update to > support shopping campaigns, a partition each product needs to be set up in > the tree. > > To avoid throttling, we batch up operations to AdGroupCriterionService by > 2000 operations (2002 if the root and catch all partitions need to be > created). Each process will wait for 3 min before trying to push out again > and only one process is run for the account. > > Following the docs ( > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/rate-limits#slow_down), > if a rate limit error happens, we wait for as long as is specified in the > response. The issue we are having is that the response tells us to wait > for 86400 seconds. In reality if the process runs the next day (~24 > hours), the rate limit is gone. In testing, we found that after about 4 > calls, the rate limit error happens. This means that only 8,000 products > can be built in each campaign. Following this math, it will take 10 days > to create a campaign for the accounts that have 80,000 products. > > I am at a complete loss on how to solve this issue. I have been in > contact with our Google account manager who kept pointing me to the rate > limit document. I did start a thread on this issue when I was initially > starting to convert to shopping: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/adwords-api/GatUStOL82c . > MutateJobService doesn't support Shopping campaigns and using the AdWords > admin is unreasonable for more than 1,000 products. > > I would like to know the correct way that Google would like us to follow > for setting up and managing Shopping Campaigns. Since we are all being > forced onto this in the next few weeks, we would like to wrap this up > sooner rather than later > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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/d/optout.
