Hi Eric,

Looks like AdWords doesn't support hour of day as a segment for criteria, 
and hence API reports also don't support this feature. You could run 
AdWords reports hourly as a workaround to fetch stats.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:21:45 AM UTC-5, road11 wrote:
>
> Anesh,
>
> I just tried HourOfDay in the Criteria Performance report you mentioned. 
> It's not there either. Can we get HourOfDay in these reports? If not, how 
> can we break down our impressions and clicks by the hour? 
>
> Eric
>
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:19:11 AM UTC-5, Anash P. Oommen (AdWords 
> API Team) wrote:
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> - You could run reports as frequently as you want. If you include 
>> HourOfDay as a column, you will get stats broken down by hours. That 
>> applies for any report that provides HourOfDay as a column.
>> - The C# .NET client library uses adhoc reports, we provide you with a 
>> ReportDefinition class so that it's easier to build the adhoc request, 
>> that's all. In case you are interested, the class is generated from 
>> https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/reportdownload/v201309/reportDefinition.xsd,
>>  
>> and it defines the schema for the report definition xml you use with adhoc 
>> reports.
>>
>> Here's the code example to use AdHoc reports: 
>> https://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-dotnet/source/browse/examples/adwords/CSharp/v201309/Reporting/DownloadCriteriaReport.cs.
>>  
>> The supported report types and their columns are available at 
>> https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Anash P. Oommen,
>> AdWords API Advisor.
>>
>> On Monday, December 16, 2013 2:52:10 PM UTC-5, road11 wrote:
>>>
>>> I see that as of next March, we will no longer be able to get stats from 
>>> the AdGroupCriterionService. We now have to use reporting... 
>>> (
>>> http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/10/adwords-api-how-to-migrate-from-stats.html
>>> )
>>>
>>>
>>> My question is how often can we download this report and expect to see 
>>> updated stats for any given keyword? Using the AdGroupCriterionService, we 
>>> could get updated stats hourly.
>>> But if I have to use the Keyword Performance Report, doesn't that mean 
>>> I'll only see different, updated data once a day? 
>>>
>>> And is there a C#.Net example of how to fire off an ad-hoc report? The 
>>> .Net sample code only comes with examples using ReportDefinitionService.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>

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