The process you described is that of the V13 release of the AdWords API. They have recently released the V2010 Beta of the reporting service, and life is much simpler, although they have not yet moved all of the V13 reporting functionality to V2010 (and some of the old functionality is probably going to be left to die on the vine).
In V2010, there are only 2 required steps (3 if you do the validate, but that was an optional step in V13 as well): 1. Define the report job - this is a SOAP call where you specify the account, type of report, date range, and data items desired. This just defines the report, it doesn't run the report 2. Request the report, using the job# returned from step 1. This is a REST call and has to be for the same client account for which the report was defined. It will return the actual file data of the report. The format (CSV, XML, ...) and compression (ZIP) would have been specified in the report definition in Step 1. The "wait time" that we used to have to deal with in V13 is now implicit in how long the REST call in Step 2 takes to complete, since that is when it generates the report and returns the report data. From the looks of things, and discussions on the adWords API forum/blog, you really only have to define the report once for each client, so long as you aren't using hard-coded date ranges, and then pull that same report's JOB # each day. I haven't tried that approach yet. FYI, they have not yet set a price for doing the report pull in step 2. Hopefully it will be at least as cheap as it was in V13. There is an associated API call added in V2010 to return the names of the fields that you can specify in the report definitions for each type of report. Those names are no longer in the docs, so you need to do the API call to get the data values to use on subsequent API calls. Good luck, yell if you need more help, there are a couple of CF adWords API people on this list. -reed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
