Re: GAQL calls all giving INTERNAL_ERROR

2022-09-09 Thread j.e.frank
This problem stopped happening for me at about 8:15 pm Eastern time. On Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 10:35:21 PM UTC-4 adsapi wrote: > Hi All, > > > Additionally on my first email, please provide it via Reply privately to > the author option. If this option is not available, then send it

GAQL calls all giving INTERNAL_ERROR

2022-09-08 Thread j.e.frank
Starting around 4pm Eastern time, we started having all of our GAQL calls fail with an INTERNAL_ERROR. I don't know of any changes on our end that might be relevant. Is there a known issue with GAQL? Here is the logging output from one such call (with some info redacted by me) 2022-09-08

Reporting error on response size (using searchStream)

2022-03-10 Thread j.e.frank
We are running reports through the Ads API in Java, and using searchStream as suggested in the documentation. However, for certain kinds of reports (usually a daily report) we are hitting an error with the gRPC response size. Based on the documentation, I was expecting that using searchStream

Re: Video Views metric is 0 in Ads API, not in AdWords API

2022-02-04 Thread j.e.frank
It turns out that our old code was manipulating the Views number, so this was a false alarm. I am sorry for the mistake. On Friday, February 4, 2022 at 2:57:52 AM UTC-5 adsapi wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for raising this concern to our team. > > To investigate the issue that you've

Video Views metric is 0 in Ads API, not in AdWords API

2022-02-03 Thread j.e.frank
We are in the process of migrating from the AdWords API to the Ads API. In comparing the results, we have noticed that for some campaigns, the video_views metric is 0 in the Ads API where it is not 0 in the AdWords API. However, we do see the "video quartile rate" information as non-zero, and

Re: invalid_grant error suddenly happening after 18 months of stable server side code

2017-02-23 Thread j.e.frank
We are also seeing invalid_grant errors just now. On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 4:23:36 PM UTC-5, PPC Developer wrote: > > Hi, > > This is perplexing...Our solution uses OAuth2 with refresh tokens and we > have multiple C# clients deployed on multiple machines running on windows, > managing

Campaign Performance report contains Universal App campaign stats, but Account Performance report does not

2016-06-17 Thread j.e.frank
Using v201603. We have an account running 7 campaigns. One of them is a Universal App campaign. If I run an Account Performance report using the API, I get the account spend minus the spend for that campaign. That kind of makes sense since these campaigns are supposed to be invisible to the

OAuth credential not refereshing?

2016-04-19 Thread j.e.frank
Starting this morning, I am seeing errors like this when trying to use the AdWords API: Credential was not refreshed successfully. Redirect to error page or login screen. Separately, another app that I have with Google Account login, has started erroring as well. This leads me to wonder if

Elevated error rates

2013-03-18 Thread j.e.frank
This morning starting around 9:00 Eastern we are receiving a high number of errors using the AdWords API. I presume this is a temporary situation and will get resolved, but I wanted to alert the team in case it hadn't been brought to their attention. We are using v201209. -- --

Re: API Quota Units showing 0

2013-02-06 Thread j.e.frank
UTC-6, j.e.frank wrote: We check our API usage each day to look for unusual numbers, for example 0 might mean that our services are down, while a huge number may indicate a rogue process. For the past few days, our API usage has been 0, although we are definitely calling the API. I know

API Quota Units showing 0

2013-02-01 Thread j.e.frank
We check our API usage each day to look for unusual numbers, for example 0 might mean that our services are down, while a huge number may indicate a rogue process. For the past few days, our API usage has been 0, although we are definitely calling the API. I know in the past this has

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-30 Thread j.e.frank
The forum page is working again. (this is my subtle way of bumping this topic) On Monday, January 28, 2013 10:23:47 AM UTC-5, j.e.frank wrote: Hi Paul, I did try that to get the logging. What I end up with is three empty files in a log directory: aw_api_lib.log, request_info.log

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-28 Thread j.e.frank
giving a Page Not Found error since Friday sometime. I got to this post by clicking a link in the digest email. On Friday, January 25, 2013 11:40:00 AM UTC-5, Paul Matthews (AdWords API Team) wrote: Hi j.e.frank, To enable logging, please see this section of the READMEhttps://code.google.com

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-24 Thread j.e.frank
bump (sorry if this is bad forum behavior, I was just hoping to get some response) On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:50:46 PM UTC-5, j.e.frank wrote: I'm running into this problem for some new ads we're running. The ad type attribute is blank. I'd love to get it fixed or figure out what

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-23 Thread j.e.frank
I'm running into this problem for some new ads we're running. The ad type attribute is blank. I'd love to get it fixed or figure out what to do to get the proper ad type out of the report. On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:16:55 AM UTC-5, j.e.frank wrote: I can reproduce the problem but I

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-16 Thread j.e.frank
in campaign ID 90299683. If you can proceed with this much information, great, otherwise can you please advise me on how to get the request/response XML. On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:15:50 PM UTC-5, j.e.frank wrote: Sorry, I missed that you had replied. I will see if I can reproduce the problem

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2013-01-15 Thread j.e.frank
Sorry, I missed that you had replied. I will see if I can reproduce the problem, and send you the XML if so. On Friday, November 23, 2012 4:52:21 AM UTC-5, Danial Klimkin wrote: Hello j.e.frank, Can you please send us full XML code of your request and server reply for this issue? Please

Re: Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2012-11-20 Thread j.e.frank
. On Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:25:16 AM UTC-5, j.e.frank wrote: We have started using the html5 ads, where Google converts an SWF to an html5 banner ad. In reports, these ads come through with an empty adType attribute. I don't know what ad type they should have, but certainly something

Empty adType attribute for html5 ad

2012-11-15 Thread j.e.frank
We have started using the html5 ads, where Google converts an SWF to an html5 banner ad. In reports, these ads come through with an empty adType attribute. I don't know what ad type they should have, but certainly something other than blank. Is there some way for me to identify these ads in

Is there a way to verify migration?

2012-10-26 Thread j.e.frank
I have a bunch of small services that use the AdWords API. I think I've updated all of them to use v201209, but I'd like to have a way to be sure. Is there a way to tell if I am making any calls to the older API? -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog

Re: AdwordsSession AdwordsServices for multiple accounts

2012-10-19 Thread j.e.frank
for pointing that out. - Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4:20:05 PM UTC-4, j.e.frank wrote: That's useful. Can you also update the Migration Guide, because it contains contradictory information about the AdWordsServices object? The migration guide calls

Re: Bug: ReportUtils misuse of jaxb

2012-10-17 Thread j.e.frank
Using one JaxBContext instead of making a new one each time is also nicer to your CPU, especially if you are running a lot of reports at the same time. I made a custom serializer for this reason. It should be easy to fix in the official library though. On Monday, October 15, 2012 3:38:37 AM

Re: Java v201209 reporting: heavier on the CPU?

2012-10-17 Thread j.e.frank
empty if there is no impression data. Are you parsing an empty report as non-active account? Oliver On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:13:16 PM UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: I noticed this post that was also related to report serialization and jaxb: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api

Java v201209 reporting: heavier on the CPU?

2012-10-16 Thread j.e.frank
I'm upgrading from v201109 to v201209 in java. I have a method which figures out all of our active accounts over a given time frame, by running a simple report for each account and seeing if there are any impressions. I tested it out and it works fine but my CPU is pretty much pinned at 100%

Re: Best practices for long-lived AdWordsService, AdWordsSession, OAuth2

2012-10-10 Thread j.e.frank
UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: I had seen that post, which is what prompted me to post my own. I am trying to better understand how multiple threads should/can share objects. I don't want to go the route of each call creates its own set of objects, if there's a more efficient way to do things

Re: Best practices for long-lived AdWordsService, AdWordsSession, OAuth2

2012-10-10 Thread j.e.frank
) to create all the service objects we will need for the whole duration of the process. - We cache the service objects instead of AdwordsServices at the account level, and hence no need to use AdwordsServices again. Oliver On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:00:38 PM UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: My

Best practices for long-lived AdWordsService, AdWordsSession, OAuth2

2012-10-09 Thread j.e.frank
I am trying to migrate to v201209 from v201109. I have several long-lived services that use the AdWords API on behalf of my MCC account, for example to run reports, to get ad details, and so forth. I'm trying to understand how I should be using the new session/service objects, such that more

Office Hours 10/10, 2pm EDT?

2012-10-09 Thread j.e.frank
Are there scheduled Office Hours tomorrow (10/10) at 2 pm EDT? If I am using Chrome, I see that in the Office Hours page (https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/officehours) it is scheduled for 6 GMT aka 2 pm EDT. If I look in Firefox, it lists no scheduled Office Hours at all.

Re: Best practices for long-lived AdWordsService, AdWordsSession, OAuth2

2012-10-09 Thread j.e.frank
PM UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: I am trying to migrate to v201209 from v201109. I have several long-lived services that use the AdWords API on behalf of my MCC account, for example to run reports, to get ad details, and so forth. I'm trying to understand how I should be using the new session

Re: OAuth2 in the new Java client library

2012-10-03 Thread j.e.frank
Does anyone know of an example using a Service Account to access the AdWords API? On Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:06:50 PM UTC-4, j.e.frank wrote: Most services do have a shared database, but not all of them. I continued investigating this issue, and I've also tried the Service Account

OAuth2 in the new Java client library

2012-09-27 Thread j.e.frank
I'm looking at migrating to the new Java client library as part of the upgrade from v201109. One thing I thought was going to be a benefit of this migration was long-lived access tokens, to enable long-running services to use the API without having to worry about refreshing the ClientLogin

Re: OAuth2 in the new Java client library

2012-09-27 Thread j.e.frank
services? Oliver On Thursday, September 27, 2012 7:24:50 PM UTC+1, j.e.frank wrote: I'm looking at migrating to the new Java client library as part of the upgrade from v201109. One thing I thought was going to be a benefit of this migration was long-lived access tokens, to enable long

Re: Can't specify an Adgroup Status selector on AdGroupCriterionService. Stuck for a solution.

2012-09-27 Thread j.e.frank
One idea is, you can first get the list of AdGroups that are Active, using the AdGroupService. Then build a list of the IDs of those ad groups, and use it in the selector of the keywords (along with the Status predicate that picks only active keywords). On Thursday, September 27, 2012

New java development: which client library to use?

2012-05-31 Thread j.e.frank
I have read that the new java client library is no longer experimental, and it will be the focus of development going forward. We are about to embark on some new features in our program that uses the AdWords API, and I'm trying to decide if we should switch to the new library. Can the two

Re: Google ad-hoc reports are giving IOException

2012-05-09 Thread j.e.frank
, 2012 12:52:05 PM UTC-4, j.e.frank wrote: Starting at around 12:30 eastern time, I am unable to run a Google ad-hoc report through the AdWords API. When I try to access the report, I get an IOException with the message !!!1|||-1|||Unexpected exception

OAuth and the java client library

2012-03-26 Thread j.e.frank
This is a general question about the future of the java client library. I'm interested in getting OAuth working with my java code, so that I don't have to worry about expired access tokens for long-lived services. I see that there is no OAuth support in the main java client library, but there

Re: Negative values seen for average position

2012-03-07 Thread j.e.frank
Google, Any update on this issue? On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 2:56:48 AM UTC-5, Daniel Bergholm wrote: We are experiencing the same problem. We are getting a lot of rows with negative impressions (the ones I have seen have -1 impressions) for the last couple of days. We too have modelled

Why do Automatic Placement Report numbers not match the UI?

2012-02-24 Thread j.e.frank
I'm doing the last phases of a transition to the new AdWords API, and I'm having some trouble with the Automatic Placements report. I ran the report for a specific date (I picked a few days ago in case the data is not stable) and added up the totals for impressions, clicks, and cost in the

Re: v13 early sunset ?

2012-02-23 Thread j.e.frank
I'd like to add my voice to the bad decision chorus. The intent seems good (making sure everyone knows about the sunset) but it's such an unexpected and heavy-handed way to do it. We've been getting hammered with messaging about the Feb 29 sunset, which is great. My interpretation was

Re: Determine account creation date?

2012-02-15 Thread j.e.frank
As you suggest, I am making semi-regular calls to the ServicedAccountService to approximate account creation time. It's not too bad. What I dislike about this approach is, it relies on our scheduled jobs staying up all the time. If it goes down over the weekend, then I will end up with some

Getting a list of active accounts

2012-01-06 Thread j.e.frank
We are in the process of migrating from v13 to v201109 for reporting. We stuck with v13 for so long due to cross-client reports, and we're trying to adapt our code to a world without them. One thing that was handy about cross-client reports was that it allowed us to 1) discover new accounts

Re: Report Fields in v201101, such as VideoPlaybacks

2011-12-05 Thread j.e.frank
With some help from our Google rep, I've finally tracked down how to get this data. It is available in the Creative Conversion report. If I include the columns ConversionTypeId and Conversions, my video playback data comes through. In the resulting XML, I get rows with attributes like

Re: Determine account creation date?

2011-11-16 Thread j.e.frank
I realize this is a very old thread, but I am looking at the upgrade path to v201109 from v13. We use the timeZoneEffectiveDate as a proxy for account creation date, and I don't see that field anymore in the ServicedAccountService's Account object. How would I get this information now? --

Re: Report Fields in v201101, such as VideoPlaybacks

2011-10-26 Thread j.e.frank
Hi, is there any update on this? It looks like v13 now has an official sunset date, so I need to figure out how to get all the data that I am used to seeing. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com

Re: v201101 cross-client reports

2011-07-25 Thread j.e.frank
I was going down that road until I ran into problems with some fields not being available. Mainly it was the video-ad data that I could not get. See this thread: http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/forum.html?place=topic%2Fadwords-api%2FjZxUz1zH34M%2Fdiscussion In searching for that old

Re: Report Fields in v201101, such as VideoPlaybacks

2011-07-25 Thread j.e.frank
It's for various gadget ads like Pre-Roll, Video Plus Box, YouTube InVideo, etc. I can get the columns in the v13 cross-client report, but they are not available in a single-client report for some reason (even in v13). -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our

InStream Video ad companion banner -- can it be a SWF?

2011-07-25 Thread j.e.frank
In the AdWords UI, when you are creating an InStream video ad (template 49), you can choose an optional Companion Banner. This can be an image or a flash file. In the AdWords API, it looks like the companion banner is only allowed to be an Image (based on this page:

Re: v13 Reports: clicks in report disappear in mcc interface

2011-06-17 Thread j.e.frank
I don't know if this is related, but we have often experienced issues where some performance data (clicks, impressions) is present in the report at one time, but later runs of the same report do not include that performance data. So the clicks and impressions disappear. For us, it is not so

Re: Reports stuck on pending status

2011-06-09 Thread j.e.frank
We're also experiencing this problem. It's been happening pretty regularly for the past couple weeks. We are doing our best to come up with a way to use the new reporting platform, but there are some holes there (like cross-client reports and missing columns) that are preventing us from

Report Fields in v201101, such as VideoPlaybacks

2011-06-08 Thread j.e.frank
I know this topic has been brought up many times before, and I have done a search on the forum, but most of the posts are old and so I want to check on the latest word. We're stuck on v13 reporting mainly because we use cross-client reports heavily. Lately there have been a LOT of problems

Re: Report Fields in v201101, such as VideoPlaybacks

2011-06-08 Thread j.e.frank
That will definitely help with API quota, but it won't help with missing columns. I did some more experimenting, and it seems that VideoPlaybacks is not supported in v13 *unless* it is a cross-client report. Not sure why, but that makes me hopeful that if/when we get cross-client reporting in

Concerns about optional-login accounts in v13 cross-client reports

2011-05-17 Thread j.e.frank
I have some concerns about the new optional-login accounts. I've tried to look through my current code base to find out where we are using the client email, to see if I can replace it with the client ID, but there is at least one place where I am not convinced: cross-client reporting. I am

Re: How do we access MCC accounts that are not assigned a clientEmail

2011-05-17 Thread j.e.frank
You can use the client ID in v13's AcountService, and still make the call to getAccountInfo. You have to make sure the clientId header is set, instead of the clientEmail header. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group:

Re: Reports Pending indefinitely

2011-05-12 Thread j.e.frank
This happened yesterday (5/11/2011) for a few hours, resolved itself, and is happening today all day (5/12/2011). -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api

Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2011-03-15 Thread j.e.frank
As of today (March 15 2011) the API units and cost are working again. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You

Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2011-03-14 Thread j.e.frank
I'm seeing 0s again in the unit count and cost, starting on Friday 3/11/2011 and continuing through today. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api

Re: How to determine that a keyword is inactive (v13 reports)

2011-01-21 Thread j.e.frank
You are right about what the first page bid tells you, but I disagree that this is nothing to do with the state of a keyword. I'm interested in knowing when a keyword is languishing, and the first page gets by far the majority of impressions. I'm not necessarily trying to ensure that the

Re: How to determine that a keyword is inactive (v13 reports)

2011-01-21 Thread j.e.frank
Your reply makes me think that it might be possible with the later ReportDefinitionService, since you mentioned that you don't think it is possible with v13. I did some investigation into v201008, and I still don't see any way to get the effective status through a report. If you think there

How to determine that a keyword is inactive (v13 reports)

2011-01-18 Thread j.e.frank
At some point in the last couple years, Google phased out the notion of the inactive status for a keyword. Now, every keyword is technically active, although it may have too low a bid or too low a quality score to realistically trigger impressions. We're trying to monitor our keywords to

Re: Replicating UI report with comprehensive Destination URL activity including remarketing

2011-01-18 Thread j.e.frank
One more reason that cross-client is necessary: API costs. Running a report is one of the more expensive operations, and so it makes a big difference if you can run just one of them. I don't suppose there is any news on when cross-client reporting might be available in the API? We are

Re: Account Access problems: QuotaCheckError.ACCOUNT_INACCESSIBLE

2010-12-21 Thread j.e.frank
In case anyone else gets a similar error, here is what it meant for us. Google had flagged one of the logins associated with our MCC as having been hijacked, and so they disabled the API access. Luckily for us, we have a Google rep since we are an ad agency, so we were able to get the matter

Account Access problems: QuotaCheckError.ACCOUNT_INACCESSIBLE

2010-12-20 Thread j.e.frank
I have a batch job that runs every couple hours to exclude a bunch of sites from our AdWords campaigns. Normally the only problems I run into with this job is that my auth token expires after a while, and I just have to restart the job. This morning, at 11:30 Eastern time, I got a different

Re: Download daily report using old api

2010-12-14 Thread j.e.frank
Don't take this answer as 100% certain, because I worked on something similar to this but it was a few years ago so my memory is not that clear. We had some reports scheduled as templates to run daily. We gave these reports a well-known name based on what kind of report it was (e.g.

Re: Reports Pending indefinitely

2010-12-08 Thread j.e.frank
It's mostly cleared up for me. I'm glad that it usually gets back on track within a half-day or so, but it seems to be happening more frequently lately. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com

Re: Reports Pending indefinitely

2010-12-07 Thread j.e.frank
Happening again. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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

Re: Elevated API Units used?

2010-11-16 Thread j.e.frank
I figured it out, and I feel kind of foolish now. I'll just post what happened in case someone else runs into a similar issue. The way that you retrieve fine-grained API usage is by passing in the name of a service and the name of a method on that service. We had some code that used the v13 API to

Elevated API Units used?

2010-11-15 Thread j.e.frank
Since about November 9th, I've noticed that my API usage has gone way up. Normally I spend about $8 per day on reports and bid changes, and now it's around $35 per day. I have tried to find out if I am doing something dumb, like running reports on a test machine that I forgot about, but I don't

Re: Reports Pending indefinitely

2010-11-11 Thread j.e.frank
Reports are running smoothly for me now. On Nov 11, 9:54 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed my reports taking an inordinate amount of time to run today.  I haven't successfully run a report since about 7 am Eastern -- they are just stuck in the Pending state.  I know

Re: Reports taking unusually long

2010-10-20 Thread j.e.frank
Reports started working again sometime around 8 pm eastern yesterday. On Oct 19, 4:20 pm, kwall...@gmail.com kwall...@gmail.com wrote: we are still seeing this issue as well, reports have been stuck in Pending all day -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our

Reports taking unusually long

2010-10-19 Thread j.e.frank
This morning I am experiencing very long report times. The reports that I run normally complete within 10 or 15 minutes, but I have several now that have been Pending for more than 3 hours. In addition, I am getting some Connection Reset errors when trying to just retrieve the status of a

Re: Reports taking unusually long

2010-10-19 Thread j.e.frank
Any word from Google on this? I haven't successfully run a report since 7:30 AM eastern time. On Oct 19, 11:37 am, kwall...@gmail.com kwall...@gmail.com wrote: we are seeing the same issue On Oct 19, 6:57 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I am experiencing very long

Re: Reports via the API are not finishing

2010-09-17 Thread j.e.frank
The reports are running in a more reasonable time frame again. On Sep 16, 5:56 pm, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi All, Thank you for letting us know about these anomalies in the reporting system.  The core engineering team is investigating the issue, and I'll

Re: Reports via the API are not finishing

2010-09-16 Thread j.e.frank
I am experiencing this problem as well. Usually my reports take about 5 or 10 minutes to run, but since last night at around 11 eastern, they are taking more like 3 or 4 hours. On Sep 16, 9:04 am, clay clay.lenh...@searchlatitude.com wrote: One report finished after an unusually long time

Re: How best to iterate over large numbers of adgroups, pulling keyword data, whilst being able to see the parent adgroup of each keyword???

2010-09-14 Thread j.e.frank
Probably you have moved on from this problem since it was posted a few weeks ago, but here are my thoughts. In general the best way to get bulk information about your account is by running a report, or a set of reports. Depending on what information you need, you may be able to get all of it

Duplicate rows in AdReport

2010-08-25 Thread j.e.frank
Twice in the past couple days, I have gotten an error in my report consumption code because I am trying to insert records that violate a unique constraint in my database. At first I thought it was a bug in my code, but now I think it is a problem with the report itself. I took a look at the

Reports Pending indefinitely

2010-06-18 Thread j.e.frank
My application runs reports periodically to refresh our internal database. There is some variability in how long the reports take to run, but usually it is on the order of 5 minutes. Starting this morning, around 7 AM eastern, the reports are stuck in pending status. Most of my reports are

AdWords with Safari 5: Old Browser warning

2010-06-15 Thread j.e.frank
I know this is not the right place to post this item, but I looked for a comparable Google Group about the AdWords UI, and only found Inside AdWords which I cannot post to. I upgraded to Safari 5 recently, and when I next logged into AdWords, I got a message saying that it had detected that I was

Re: Report download format GZIPPED_XML in v201003?

2010-06-15 Thread j.e.frank
Here is another vote for gzipped XML as an available format. I am pretty sure that is what we have in v13, so it would be nice not to have to change the report consumption code. On Jun 15, 10:51 am, AdWords API Advisor adwordsapiadvi...@google.com wrote: Hi Manfred, I am not aware of any

AdWords API Exceptions in CampaignCriterionService

2010-03-30 Thread j.e.frank
I use the CampaignCriterionService to add negative criteria for certain websites and site categories that we don't want our campaigns to run on. I have a batch job that runs every 3 hours to look for new campaigns, and then add the negative criteria to them. This morning, starting with the 8:30

AdWords API Re: Migration to new v2009 API from v13: what about Report Service?

2010-03-30 Thread j.e.frank
The ReportService is not yet available in v2009. For this reason, the April 22 sunset of v13 does not include the ReportService -- you will continue to be able to use it. At some point, they will make a v2009 version (or whatever version we are on at that time) and then they will give us some

AdWords API Re: Is it possible to create a clck-to-play video ad through the v2009 API?

2010-03-19 Thread j.e.frank
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this. On Mar 17, 11:55 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I have been working on migrating code from v13 to v2009.  One of the things that I did with v13 was create Video Ads.  The code couldn't actually upload a video (this had to be done

AdWords API Is it possible to create a clck-to-play video ad through the v2009 API?

2010-03-17 Thread j.e.frank
I have been working on migrating code from v13 to v2009. One of the things that I did with v13 was create Video Ads. The code couldn't actually upload a video (this had to be done through the AdWords web UI), but once there was a video, I could use the API to create video ads that referenced

AdWords API Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2010-01-11 Thread j.e.frank
, we are seeing the same behavior on our end.  We've escalated this issue to the core engineering team and I'll update this thread when I have more information. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWordsAPITeam On Dec 23, 12:03 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeing a problem again

AdWords API Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2010-01-11 Thread j.e.frank
Now it is back to normal, showing appropriate API units. On Jan 11, 9:58 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeing 0's again.  Friday 1/8 was almost 0, and then the 9th and 10th have both been 0s.  I am definitely using API units, so I suspect it is a reporting problem again

AdWords API Re: How to find out the specific type of Video Ad

2010-01-07 Thread j.e.frank
Any word on why I might not be able to retrieve these Ads? On Jan 5, 10:16 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot retrieve this ad with the v13 API.  If I call AdService.getAllAds and pass in the parent ad group ID, I get back null (this ad group only contains in-stream ads).  If I

AdWords API Interactions column in an Ad Report?

2010-01-07 Thread j.e.frank
When I run an Ad Performance Report in the AdWords Web UI, one of the columns I can choose is called Interactions. I have not been able to find out what name I should pass in the selectedColumns array in order to get this column to show up in a report via the API. I don't see it in the

AdWords API Re: How to find out the specific type of Video Ad

2010-01-05 Thread j.e.frank
, - Eric On Jan 4, 6:01 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know why some Ads do not come back in the AdGroupAdPage's entries when calling AdGroupAdService.get ?  One of my campaigns has 3 pre-roll Ads (aka In-Stream).  I pass in the three Ad IDs, and I only get back 2 results

AdWords API Re: How to find out the specific type of Video Ad

2010-01-04 Thread j.e.frank
, then the resulting entries array is null. I have double checked the IDs, and I can see that particular Ad ID in a report, so as far as I can tell, it should show up in the results, but it does not. On Dec 30 2009, 2:31 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, that is helpful. I have tried

AdWords API Re: How to find out the specific type of Video Ad

2009-12-30 Thread j.e.frank
through reporting, in both the web interface and API. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Dec 30, 9:20 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to write a report that will show stats for our campaigns that have video ads, and I want to distinguish between click-to-play

AdWords API Re: How to find out the specific type of Video Ad

2009-12-30 Thread j.e.frank
the currently available templates, but a few get() requests will allow you to determine the mapping yourself. Best, - Eric On Dec 30, 10:45 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply.  Is there a way to find out the specific type of ad through other API services?  I can't see

AdWords API Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2009-12-23 Thread j.e.frank
resolved and all API usage should be returned correctly now.  Let us know if you see this problem again. Best, - Eric On Dec 1, 11:43 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Today, I can see non-zero API units for all of the days!  So something has been fixed. On Nov 30, 3:19 pm

AdWords API Use of validateOnly for AdGroupAdService to add Ads -- code samples?

2009-12-21 Thread j.e.frank
I am migrating code from v13 to v2009. One portion of my application is used to add ImageAds to multiple Campaigns and AdGroups at once. I'm interested in rewriting the code to take advantage of the validateOnly capability, so that I can validate all the ads before trying to add them, and report

AdWords API Campaign Status and ServingStatus

2009-12-14 Thread j.e.frank
I'm in the process of upgrading some code from v13 to v2009. I'm trying to get a handle on the meaning of a Campaign's status and its serving status. Is there an explanation of these fields anywhere, other than the list of the enumerated values for each? My sense is that status refers to

AdWords API Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2009-12-01 Thread j.e.frank
Today, I can see non-zero API units for all of the days! So something has been fixed. On Nov 30, 3:19 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks.  Let me know if you need any additional info, such as the developer token and login that I am using. On Nov 30, 2:51 pm, AdWords API Advisor

AdWords API InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2009-11-30 Thread j.e.frank
Every day I run a process to get my API usage. This returned 0 for 4 days, from November 25th through November 28th, and with smaller than normal numbers on the 24th and 29th. So far today it seems to be tracking normally again. I have double-checked that all of my processes that actually use

AdWords API Re: InfoService getUnitCount returns 0 for November 25 through 28

2009-11-30 Thread j.e.frank
. Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Nov 30, 11:16 am, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Every day I run a process to get my API usage.  This returned 0 for 4 days, from November 25th through November 28th, and with smaller than normal numbers on the 24th and 29th.  So far today

AdWords API Re: CampaignTargetService returning incorrect value for NetworkTargets?

2009-10-01 Thread j.e.frank
, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Sep 29, 2:38 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: I am experimenting the the v2009 API, and I ran into something that I did not expect.  I have a campaign in AdWords that is set for Search only, no Contextual or Placements.  However, when I call

AdWords API Re: Site and Category Exclusion with the v13 API

2009-09-30 Thread j.e.frank
emergency  TRAGEDY = Death tragedy  VIDEO = Video Best, - Eric On Sep 28, 12:01 pm, j.e.frank j.e.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply.  Ok so I will have to use the v2009 API to do category exclusion.  One concern I have is that the documentation is, shall we say, sparse.  I

AdWords API CampaignTargetService returning incorrect value for NetworkTargets?

2009-09-29 Thread j.e.frank
I am experimenting the the v2009 API, and I ran into something that I did not expect. I have a campaign in AdWords that is set for Search only, no Contextual or Placements. However, when I call the CampaignTargetService.get method for this campaign, it returns three entries in the

AdWords API Site and Category Exclusion with the v13 API

2009-09-28 Thread j.e.frank
I'm trying to figure out if I can manipulate site and category exclusions for placement campaigns through the API. (This would be similar to using the Site and Category Exclusion tool that is available in the AdWords web UI.) I have looked through the v13 docs and I can't see anything that

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