Re: v201008 reporting columns

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Alex, I am working with the core engineering team regarding the HourOfDay field and other fields. In some cases the fields can be made available easily, and in others more complex changes are required to the backend. I don't have any estimates as to when you can expect to see this field in th

Re: Need ability to set report definitions as read-only

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, So is the worry that reports created for API use will be accidentally edited by users in the AdWords web interface? In general I think there is a benefit to having the reports shared between UI and API, but this is something I'll mention to the core engineering team. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdW

Re: Understanding PAUSED

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi John, The basic hierarchy of an AdWords account is as follows: Campaigns - Ad Groups - Ads - Criteria If an entity is paused none of it's child entities will serve. There is no way in the API to look at an ad and determine if it is serving, you'll need to look at both the ad group and ca

Re: average positon

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Farid, The user agent field can be anything you want to identify your application. Application token is deprecated and you can ignore it. The developer token is obtained when you register for API access: https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/adwordsapi/bin/answer.py?answer=15104 You can ma

Re: Adword API - Worst documentation and support I have ever seen

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Farid, I apologize for the difficulty you've had with the API so far. The AdWords product and AdWords API are quite large and complicated, and it can be difficult to get started. There is no existing PHP example that does exactly what you want, so you'll need to piece together existing exampl

Re: Bug returning averagePosition

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Farid, To get the stats object populated you need to include a StatsSelector in your selector, specifying a date range. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Nov 12, 9:05 am, Farid Parvini wrote: > Hi, > > I have this code , > >   $selector = new AdGroupCriterionSelector(); > >   // Creat

Re: Getting automatic placements via 201008 API

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Dave, The core engineering team is looking into the problem, but unfortunately I don't have an estimate as to when the behavior will be fixed. Best, - Eric On Nov 12, 7:51 am, DaveOz wrote: > Hi Eric, > Is there any estimate on how long this might take to resolve? > > On Oct 29, 7:17 pm, AdW

Re: Failed to get authToken. Reason: couldn't connect to host

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, The authToken is requested from the following URL: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin Please ensure you have access to this URL from your environment. More information about the ClientLogin API is available here: http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.h

Re: Creating & linking Adwords account under MCC using API

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi, Account creation and MCC linking are not available via the API, and must be done via the AdWords web interface. Once the accounts are created and linked you need only to change the clientEmail or clientCustomerId header in your requests to work against the new account. Best, - Eric Koleda, A

Re: No API Center under My Account?

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Mike and Pete, I'm not sure how the error is worded, but it's probably trying to say that an AdWords account of some kind is already associated with the email address. In Pete's case it was a regular AdWords account, not an MCC-account. You'll need to use a different email when creating your

Re: No API Center under My Account?

2010-11-15 Thread John
Not to steal thunder from the support guys, but I went through this a while ago -- and I imagine everyone does. I was not able to convert from adwrods to mcc. I created a new google log in which I now use exclusively for mcc. Here's a long thread on it http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api

Sandbox: v13 getAccountInfo failing

2010-11-15 Thread Doug s
Caused by: An internal error has occurred. Please retry your request. at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance

Re: Receiving UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR

2010-11-15 Thread John
actually, maybe just with campaigns -- I may be failing the ad group creation calls due to not having a campaign id and not checking for it correctly. On Nov 15, 4:38 pm, John wrote: > Just started seeing this error -- have been actively developing > against the sandbox, and the code I'm using to

[SANDBOX] Receiving UNEXPECTED_INTERNAL_API_ERROR

2010-11-15 Thread John
Just started seeing this error -- have been actively developing against the sandbox, and the code I'm using to create campaigns has been working all day. Have seen this on both calls to create a campaign and to create an ad group. I'm developing in ruby using the adwords4r = Request ! CONNECT

Re: No API Center under My Account?

2010-11-15 Thread Pete Michaud
This is exactly my problem. I also tried to sign up for an MCC account and was told that my account already WAS an MCC account. Is there are a way to fix the issue? On Nov 12, 9:40 am, Mike Miller wrote: > I have the same problem as Pete... I want to sign up for the Adwords > Api but I dont see

Re: Replicating UI report with comprehensive Destination URL activity including remarketing

2010-11-15 Thread jonahviakeyboard
Thanks for all the responses Eric. Much appreciated. I appreciate that v2010 is very quick. That's great, (makes development much easier) but slow report generation would not be a barrier in my case. Barriers to a v2010 solution are: 1) Scope / Effort: New accounts are launched without my awarene

Re: returnMoneyInMicros: true but totalConvValue still in currency

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi David, Thank you for reporting this issue. I think the root of the problem is that getReportFields() returns the field TotalConvValue as the type Long. The returnMoneyInMicros header only affects Bid and Money fields, which is why TotalConvValue isn't affected currently. I'll work with the c

Re: Remarketing and conversion scripts

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Zweitze, The UserListService today allows you to create user lists and associated tags (conversion types). There is limited ability today to reuse existing tags, because there is no way to query for the IDs. There is no method that allows you to retrieve the JavaScript code of a tag, and this

Re: TargetingIdeaService BUG

2010-11-15 Thread AdWords API Advisor
Hi Manuel, Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say that there is *no* new information at this time. Best, - Eric On Nov 11, 5:10 pm, manuel wrote: > Great! What new information?! > > On Nov 11, 10:59 pm, AdWords API Advisor > > > > > > > > wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > I've raised the issue agai

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR when I try tu add keywords to a adgroup

2010-11-15 Thread Bianca
Hello, I want to add keywords to my adgroups and I'm using the code below but I'm geting te INTERNAL SERVER ERROR, can anywone help me please? Am I doing something wrong here? $groupId = (float) $_GET['groupId']; $i=0; foreach ($_POST['keywords'] as $keyword) {

Unable to declare new TextAd

2010-11-15 Thread wolfgang
Hi, I am getting the following error when i try to create new TextAd as: $textAd = new TextAd(); Fatal error: Class 'TextAd' not found Thanks -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.

Application Token in PHP

2010-11-15 Thread vinceadwords
Hi everyone, I was reading the README file of the PHP package and here was what I found out about the application token. Basic usage --- For those of you who have already built PHP clients without using the client library, the AdWords class has methods for setting username,

Newbie Questions about API Units, PHP for AdWords API

2010-11-15 Thread vinceadwords
Hi everyone, I have a developer token ready and I would like to test the AdWords API in PHP to create some simple keyword applications. I have some newbie questions: 1. Do I have to pay AdWords to use the API before or after I use the API service? Do I need to prepay to use the API? Or is it pos

Re: Get the number of clicks for a named keyword

2010-11-15 Thread FUNKY BOY
Ok,I found it, this is how to do in PHP require_once 'Google/Api/Ads/AdWords/Lib/AdWordsUser.php'; require_once 'Google/Api/Ads/AdWords/Util/ReportUtils.php'; try { // Get AdWordsUser from credentials in "../auth.ini" // relative to the AdWordsUser.php file's directory. $user = new AdWordsUser()

Elevated API Units used?

2010-11-15 Thread j.e.frank
Since about November 9th, I've noticed that my API usage has gone way up. Normally I spend about $8 per day on reports and bid changes, and now it's around $35 per day. I have tried to find out if I am doing something dumb, like running reports on a test machine that I forgot about, but I don't thi

Get the number of clicks for a named keyword

2010-11-15 Thread FUNKY BOY
Hi, I can't find a way to get information about a keyword in a specific compaign. Can we get the number of clicks for a keyword by day or month just by giving it's name and the id of its campaign ? Please Help me! Thanks. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our

is there a way to pull AdGroupService or AdCampaignService with currency in stats[] ?

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Pletnev
If i have much groups and campaigns, and each other has own currency, i can't calculate total amount correctly, because money pulled without currency code. Is there a way to resolve this problem? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: ht