Hello Joe, A general rule of thumb is to wait 6 to 8 hours after midnight in the time zone local to your account before requesting a basic report for the previous day. This will give the Reports Center enough time to process the majority of your clicks and impression data for a given day.
As for determining when a report will have data that is absolutely final, no, there is no way to do that via the AdWords API. But this is not just something that applies to reports scheduled via the AdWords API--reports scheduled via the AdWords front end are functionality identical, and the same limitations apply. I have a feeling that you'll hear about the experiences of some other AdWords API developers who have faced a similar decision about report scheduling in this thread, but since this is an issue that applies to AdWords users in general, you can also post about it in the general AdWords discussion forum at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Nov 12, 6:35 pm, MojoWIre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Forgive me if the answer to this question is already available. I > looked for it in the docs and on this group and couldn't find it. I > want to know how to download a report of yesterday's data via the API, > in such a way that It's guaranteed that the data in it is accurate and > final. > > For example if I download a report for yesterday at 12:05am the next > morning will the data I get back be complete and accurate, or will > there still be some data missing because it hasn't been aggregated yet > into Google's reporting platform? If the answer to the previous > question is that the data will NOT be accurate, is there some flag > that I can check to see if the report is complete? That way I can just > try again later if the data isn't ready yet. Will validateReportJob > throw an exception if the data is not complete? Is there some other > way I can tell if the "books are closed?" > > If there is no way to do this, does anyone have any recommendation as > to how long I have to wait after midnight to get a report with > complete data in it? > > Thanks for the help! > Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
