I've done a bit of searching to see if this exists yet, but can't find anything.
It's been 8 years! Is there a differential get of sorts yet that I don't know about? Thanks, Will On Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:26:16 UTC, PPC Tools Provider wrote: > > This is a continuation of the discussion thread on Adwords API > Differential Get at: > > http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api/browse_thread/thread/6a78fd6abf766957/d1ba7c33862e55b8?lnk=gst&q=differential+get&rnum=1# > > Differential Get is a function that would retrieve only the delta of > changes and new objects since a specified time. > > The problem is described in the earlier post by Justin Evans as: > "To elaborate, if we retrieve our data from the API, store it in a > database, and then interface from our local DB, the data in our DB has > a risk of becoming outdated. So we need to perform a new request to > retrieve the data again in case anything has changed. This means we > may need to delete the data in our DB first, or after an update, or > compare all of the data we receive against the DB to see if it is > different and subsequently update records etc. Surely it would be more > efficient to receive only the data or instructions concerning data > which has been added, modified or deleted between a date range? " > > Differential Get functionality is absolutely critical for any Adwords > API user that is managing accounts with large amounts of data. The > importance of this functionality has been heightened by the fact that > API transactions now cost money. If Google's intent is to lower API > transactions, then this feature should be provided. > > Inconsistent data in our local database means less efficient campaigns > and eventually less revenue for Google. MSN and Yahoo provide > Differential Get and it is much easier to spend money on these search > engines. > > Even more importantly, fetches of all the Campaign Data for large > accounts often fail (specially during business hours) because of the > sheer amount of data. > > Differential Get since a certain point in time should be provided for > all objects including Campaigns, Ad Groups, Keywords and Creatives. > > Patrick Chanezon and others at Google: > 1. Can you please describe the details of the solution that you are > developing? > 2. Can you please give us a rough timeline of when to expect this > functionality > 3. For now every adwords API user has to recreate this functionality. > So in the meanwhile, can you please provide some guidelines on how best > to implement our own "Differerntial Get"? > > Thanks. > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/19ed5ac5-64ac-4621-9529-717aa9094866%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
