Hello, I'm bumping this thread on behalf of my employer, Benjamin Tolman, who created this thread.
As of today (it's been more than a week), TargetingIdeaService still doesn't return any result anymore, while we still have "0 API units" used. Just to give a few more details: we had this problem with the TargetingIdeaService component of the Adwords API since January 25, 2013. We were requesting STATS over a list of keywords, but the API started to give a totalNumEntries of 0 (and hence no results at all), at odd times. The more keywords were being sent to the API, the more empty results we were getting. We then reached a point where the API wouldn't return any result for any keyword -- today, running a single get() for a single keyword still always returns an empty result (i.e. $page->entries is NULL and totalNumEntries is 0). The very same script has been used to retrieve similar STATS for a similar list of keywords a few days before that, without this problem. We thought this might have something to do with our API units credit being exhausted. However, since we started using the Adwords API in December, our credit never changed. We still have all our units in the MCC, which looks strange, because GetLastUnits() does return a number of units used (we are not using test accounts). In [1] you'll find the SOAP XML log for our request for STATS on the "google" keyword, returning 0 results. So, we are wondering what could be the reason why it's no longer possible for us to retrieve STATS with the API? Regards, Donovan Watteau [1] soap_xml.log [Jan 30 2013 11:27:27.000000 - INFO] POST /api/adwords/o/v201209/TargetingIdeaService?access_token=XXXXXXXXXXXXX HTTP/1.1 Host: adwords.google.com Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.3.3-7+squeeze14, gzip Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "" Content-Length: 669 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201209"; xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201209"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <SOAP-ENV:Header> <ns2:RequestHeader> <ns1:developerToken>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</ns1:developerToken> <ns1:userAgent>YYYYYYYY (AwApi/3.1.1, php/5.3.3-7+squeeze14)</ns1:userAgent> </ns2:RequestHeader> </SOAP-ENV:Header> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns2:get> <ns2:selector> <ns2:searchParameters xsi:type="ns2:LocationSearchParameter"> <ns2:locations> <ns1:id>2250</ns1:id> </ns2:locations> </ns2:searchParameters> <ns2:searchParameters xsi:type="ns2:LanguageSearchParameter"> <ns2:languages> <ns1:id>1002</ns1:id> </ns2:languages> </ns2:searchParameters> <ns2:searchParameters xsi:type="ns2:SearchVolumeSearchParameter"> <ns2:operation> <ns2:minimum>1</ns2:minimum> </ns2:operation> </ns2:searchParameters> <ns2:searchParameters xsi:type="ns2:RelatedToQuerySearchParameter"> <ns2:queries>google</ns2:queries> </ns2:searchParameters> <ns2:ideaType>KEYWORD</ns2:ideaType> <ns2:requestType>STATS</ns2:requestType> <ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>COMPETITION</ns2:requestedAttributeTypes> <ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>KEYWORD_TEXT</ns2:requestedAttributeTypes> <ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</ns2:requestedAttributeTypes> <ns2:paging> <ns1:startIndex>0</ns1:startIndex> <ns1:numberResults>500</ns1:numberResults> </ns2:paging> <ns2:localeCode>fr_FR</ns2:localeCode> <ns2:currencyCode>EUR</ns2:currencyCode> </ns2:selector> </ns2:get> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Encoding: gzip Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:27:27 GMT Expires: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:27:27 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Content-Length: 316 Server: GSE <?xml version="1.0"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> <soap:Header> <ResponseHeader xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201209"; xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201209";> <ns2:requestId>0004d47ef4f09d200ae59d5200007d7f</ns2:requestId> <ns2:serviceName>TargetingIdeaService</ns2:serviceName> <ns2:methodName>get</ns2:methodName> <ns2:operations>1</ns2:operations> <ns2:responseTime>82</ns2:responseTime> <ns2:units>6</ns2:units> </ResponseHeader> </soap:Header> <soap:Body> <getResponse xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201209"; xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v201209";> <rval> <totalNumEntries>0</totalNumEntries> </rval> </getResponse> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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. 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