Hi Jeff,

We've been seeing zero-byte reports consistently for the past 7 days
between 4:50AM and 5:00AM EST.  We're using getReportDownloadUrl

Here is the report ID from this morning's attempt:
551236488


- Michael

On Jan 5, 2:57 pm, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I've investigated this behavior in the past and collected a decent
> amount of debugging information. (The fact that your reports are now
> deleted would make it more difficult to go through the debugging
> steps, but that's okay.) Unfortunately, we've yet to come up with any
> conclusive causes for either empty reports or 404 URLs (which appear
> to be two distinct issues). If you get to the level of reproducibility
> where we can schedule some reports at a specific time that some of the
> engineering team is looking at the backend then that would be useful,
> but as it is it doesn't sound like it happens often enough.
>
>  Based on what's worked for other developers, when you encounter
> either issue you should be able to call getGzipDownloadUrl() using the
> same report ID (assuming you haven't deleted it and that it hasn't
> been bumped from the 15 report queue) and get a new download URL that
> should give you the full report.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
>
> On Jan 5, 4:55 am, Zweitze <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Quite often, getGzipDownloadUrl() returns a URL, pointing to a 20 byte
> > file. When uncompressing that file, you get a file of 0 bytes.
>
> > This happens about once in every 200 reports or so, but now it just
> > got up a notch - I had four this morning. It happens so often I even
> > started to log the requestId of the getGzipDownloadUrl() call that
> > delivered the link to the empty report. The results of this morning
> > were:
>
> > Report: 608112755. RequestId: a60a7ec4aae2d6bec0d0eee98fc6f6a1.
> > Report: 586881504. RequestId: 4d7418cd026678190120bd16e9ea0819.
> > Report: 622048735. RequestId: 205436fc0d6fa04be5e209987f43bf7d.
> > Report: 527545241. RequestId: 0e8f982e41440161ffe0e1c62fc38368.
>
> > (The last two were only 2 minutes apart!)
>
> > A couple of days ago I experienced something different: the result of
> > getGzipDownloadUrl() pointed to a non existing URL (404).
> > Report: 1307454470. RequestId: 16f1bd53ae240b09efaf12d7b3367e32.
>
> > Note on the Report IDs: I have some cleaning up code in action,
> > calling deleteReport() when the code is done with the report. I hope
> > you can still find clues.
>
> > I wonder what I can do to prevent this from happening. Wait a while
> > before calling getGzipDownloadUrl() ? Call getGzipDownloadUrl() again
> > and try again with that result (assuming I get different URLs?). Or
> > reschedule that report?
>
> > Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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