I use a different, slightly better method: Use campaignservice, just get campaigns and make sure you ask for the campaign start date. The campaign start date is NOT the date the campaign was created, still, it is usual earlier than the date of the first impression. To get the earliest date of an account I ask for campaigns sorted on campaign start date and limit the results to 1, costing me 1 unit. Another direction would be the customersyncservice, just get the date of the first change in the account. BTW I never tested this. Hope this helps
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:20:00 AM UTC+2, Oliver wrote: > Thanks. However, I think the first date in the report will be the date the > account started accruing impressions rather than the account creation date > (since Date prevents zero impressions). > > I tested it in one of our accounts and confirmed this is the case. > > Hence, I guess the account creation date cannot be retrieved unless the > account started accruing impressions on the same day it was created. > Oliver > > > On Monday, September 10, 2012 4:21:11 PM UTC+1, Danial Klimkin wrote: >> >> Hello Oliver, >> >> >> I meant the data itself. In a report with the date column the very early >> date present could be the one you are looking for. >> >> >> -Danial, AdWords API Team. >> >> >> On Monday, September 10, 2012 6:23:59 PM UTC+4, Oliver wrote: >>> >>> Hi Danial, >>> >>> Can you please elaborate? >>> >>> I presume you mean get an account performance report, specifying >>> ALL_TIME as the date range. Correct? The report returned has this in the >>> first line: >>> >>> <report name> (All Time) >>> >>> I can't see the date you were referring to? >>> >>> >>> Oliver >>> >>> >>> On Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19:58 PM UTC+1, Danial Klimkin wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello spetz, >>>> >>>> >>>> I believe this date comes from the very first row of impressions data >>>> ran with no filter rather than from any stored value. The API does not >>>> provide the account creation date. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Danial, AdWords API Team. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, September 7, 2012 4:21:14 PM UTC+4, spetz wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Actually, what I want to show in my application is the start date that >>>>> you see when you click on "All time" from the date template list in your >>>>> Adwords account. >>>>> >>>>> forexample if you've created your account in 1 January 2012, you will >>>>> see this date and today's date if you click to "All time" reports in >>>>> Adwords. So I would like to show this date when I attemp to get campaign >>>>> list for all time (I use "01/01/1970" as starDate in dateRange selector, >>>>> so >>>>> I get this date in the campaignStats object as response!) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 5 Eylül 2012 Çarşamba 18:06:11 UTC+3 tarihinde Oliver yazdı: >>>>>> >>>>>> Are you asking about the creation date of a campaign (as in question >>>>>> title) or the creation date of an account (as in your question body)? >>>>>> >>>>>> If for a campaign, you can find this out by fetching the campaign's >>>>>> "StartDate" from the CampaignService object. >>>>>> >>>>>> Not sure a start date of an account is available anywhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> Oliver >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:37:30 PM UTC+1, spetz wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hey there, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I query campaigns in "all time" as google adwords does. I know that >>>>>>> I could fetch the whole campaign data by setting start date to >>>>>>> something >>>>>>> 01/01/1900 and it works as I see the same results (amounts and numbers >>>>>>> I >>>>>>> mean) with adwords. but the question is what is the exact start date of >>>>>>> that result set, that is not year 1900 for example. This means Google >>>>>>> is >>>>>>> able to show the creation date of an account to use it to fetch all >>>>>>> data >>>>>>> from the beginning, how will we do that using API? >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
