Thanks so much, I completely missed the Reporting section! This definitely makes things easier.
On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 1:57:32 PM UTC-7, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi, > > For your use case, I'd highly recommend looking into using Structure > Reports > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/structure-reports> > instead. > For example, you could run a KEYWORDS_PERFORMANCE_REPORT > <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports#keywords> to > quickly pull all of the fields you mentioned in a single request. > > Cheers, > Josh, AdWords API Team > > On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 4:40:25 PM UTC-4, Aditya wrote: >> >> So if I understand the examples and documentation correctly, the >> following bit of code should be a pretty efficient way to retrieve all the >> keywords (criterion? as the technical term I guess) within a campaign: >> >> Selector selector = builder.fields("Id", "AdGroupId", "KeywordMatchType", >> "KeywordText").orderAscBy("AdGroupId").offset(offset).limit(PAGE_SIZE >> ).in("CampaignId", campaignID.toString()).equals("CriteriaType", >> "KEYWORD").build(); >> >> Note that I've passed in a Long campaignID. Then you have an >> adGroupCriterionService get the selector, and then use AdGroupCriterionPage >> to go through all the AdGroupCriterion results. My question is whether >> there is an efficient way to retrieve the campaign name and ad group name >> for each keyword (I want to build a large json object that looks like >> {"keyword":"text" , "adGroupName" : "name" , "campaignName":"name" } , { >> keyword ... } etc.) >> >> I current make one API call as shown above that gets all the keywords in >> a campaign. But then it seems that I have to make individual get requests >> for each keyword to get its adgroup name and its campaign name (this part >> is accomplished with an AdGroupService, that returns an AdGroup object when >> looking up an AdGroupId.) The problem is that doing the AdGroup lookup for >> each keyword (since the criterion result only lets you get an adgroupID, >> not an adGroupName), means that we'll be making an API call for each >> keyword. Obviously this is very expensive and it's causing us to hit our >> API usage limit (basic access). >> >> Please let me know if I've missed something. Essentially I want to >> retrieve campaign name, ad group name, and keyword text for all keywords in >> a campaign. It seems relatively easy to get the IDs for some of these, but >> my understanding is that it'll take thousands of API calls to get the names >> from IDs if the client has thousands of keywords. >> >> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/b7063744-d50d-4151-a08c-81832993805f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
