Hi J, For certainty (providing you're not requesting data in the exceptions list<https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2544985>), you should wait until "three hours after midnight in the account’s local time zone".
*Example:* My account's local timezone is GMT. So todays (2012-11-05) definitive statistics would be available tomorrow (2012-11-06) at 3am GMT. *Example Continuation:* Any query, I do today (2012-11-05) after 3am GMT, for data from yesterday (2012-11-04) or older, should be correct. I hope this helps to answer your question. Cheers, - Paul, AdWords API Team. On Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:27:14 UTC, J wrote: > > I've read this help page on data freshness for AdWords: > https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2544985 > > Wanted to confirm my understanding: > > - My report query is for statistics such as clicks, impressions, > conversions, cost. I'm querying for hourly data by using "Date" & > "HourOfDay" as segments in my selector. > - Does this mean there's a 3 hour delay in data accuracy? In other > words, data for the most recent 3 hours returned in the report may not be > complete/accurate? > - Does this mean data older than 3 hours is accurate? So for example, > hourly data that I receive for yesterday should be accurate and there's no > need for me to re-query for results for yesterday? > > I'm trying to come up with the proper algorithm to continuously retrieve > report data for our AdWords account. I start by querying historical data > until the beginning of our AdWords account, then I switch to cron job mode > where I continuously query for new/updated data. What I'm trying to figure > out is the proper 'startDate' and 'endDate' to use. To be safe, should I > always just query for last 2 days just in case there's some system wide > delay? > > Any insight or tips here would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > J > > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
