Hi Taylor, Can you post the requestId for a request where you added the report definition successfully, but got "Unknown error" when downloading the report? The code example was running fine on my account, so I wish to check if this error has something to do with your account.
Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Aug 11, 6:18 am, Taylor Lilley <[email protected]> wrote: > Anash, your second link is very helpful. I have one issue running your > example code however. When I try to create the All Ads report, I get > an exception when the code tries to download the file. The returned > exception is "Unknown Exception". I can make the exception go away by > removing the Headline column from the report fields. This is very > strange. Do you have any idea why this would happen? > > All other reports run as expected. Thanks a ton for the sample code. > > On Aug 10, 5:19 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Taylor, > > > AdWords API doesn't provide any API calls or reports where you can > > download the entire MCC in a single call. One way to solve your issue > > in a fast and cost effective way would be to store the list of child > > accounts locally at your end, and then run Ad performance report on > > each of the child accounts. The report service in the new AdWords API > > is much faster than v13 reports, and more cost effective than looping > > through campaigns and adgroups to retrieve the ads. > > > You can find more about the new ReportDefinitionService and how it can > > be used to download a single account at the following locations: > > >http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/07/introduction-to-reportdefiniti...... > > > Cheers, > > Anash P. Oommen, > > AdWords API Advisor. > > > On Aug 10, 5:35 am, Taylor Lilley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Our organization has 10s of 1000s of ads running. I've seen another > > > post where the poster wanted to "get the entire MCC" in a single API > > > call for similar reasons, but there was no real answer > > > provided...sooo... > > > > Is there a report that could pull a full list of ALL ads under a > > > specified MCC? Traversing down the hierarchy from clientAccount > > > (nested loops) is ridiculously slow and relatively costly. > > > > The reason we need this is that our marketing guys track their own > > > internal "campaign IDs" for reporting purposes. These "CID" values as > > > they call them are only found in the ad.URL field. I need a full list > > > of all ads that we've set up in AdWords so that I can build a map in > > > our local database between our marketing department's CID and Google's > > > CampaignID (it's a one to many relationship). > > > > Any help would be appreciated. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
