Reports IDs: Finally here

Hi AdWords Developers,

IDs in reports are now available (and this time we mean it!).

As we announced yesterday, when you schedule a CustomReport you can now request for IDs to be included so you can better sync up the data with the rest of your API calls.

For the full details, please see our prior post .

We hope you enjoy the new feature and sorry again for any inconvenience we may have caused.

Regards,
Nelson Minar, Software Engineer
Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

IDs not in reports yet

Whoops... we made a mistake. The IDs in reports are not quite yet working. We'll post another message when they are available.

Sorry for the confusion.


Nelson Minar, Software Engineer
Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

Updates to Terms and Conditions

Hi everyone,

Last night, we updated the AdWords API Terms and Conditions. We made several minor changes in order to further clarify a few points and to correct a typo.

The changes are as follows:

Section II. 3c) Added "or for transmissions directly to Google, at least as secure as the protocol being accepted by the AdWords API servers.”

Section II. 3d) Added “Except as expressly permitted by Google under a separate Google product or service feature,”

Section III 2a iv) Modified existing language and inserted some language so that it now reads “The AdWords API Data in such databases may only be accessed (1) by AdWords API Clients in conformance with this agreement, (2) by intermediary tools whose sole purpose is to analyze data for or supply data to an AdWords API Client in conformance with this AdWords API Agreement or (3) by reporting tools to produce reports only for the account owner of the account from which the AdWords API Data was received.”

Section III. 2h) Added “or for transmissions directly to Google, at least as secure as the protocol being accepted by the AdWords API servers.”

Section IV. 14) Added "Google", so the sentence now reads "You and Google are not legal partners or agents, but are independent contractors.”


Regards,
Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

New feature: IDs in reports

Hello, AdWords developers! We're happy to announce we've added a new much-requested feature: IDs in reports. When you schedule a CustomReport you can now request for IDs to be included so you can better sync up the data with the rest of your API calls.

With IDs in reports developers can get a full snapshot of their account activity by scheduling a single report. However, please bear in mind that if a Keyword did not have any impressions during the specified period the Keyword will not appear in the report. Also, please remember that while Keyword IDs are unique within an AdGroup they are not globally unique. To properly identify a Keyword both the Keyword ID and AdGroup ID must be used together.

Enjoy the new report features, and please keep the feature suggestions coming!

Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager
Nelson Minar, Software Engineer

Lessons learned launching a web service

Seven weeks ago we launched the AdWords API, and since then had the chance to reflect on what we learned creating a new web service. I just gave a talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference about it, and here are the slides. Some of the (admittedly geeky) highlights: the value of document/literal style SOAP, a description of the real-world problems in building interoperable web services, and my opinion on when to use SOAP vs ReST. Despite the geek factor, perhaps it's useful for people building web services and developers using Google's own services.

-- Nelson Minar, Software Engineer

(Reposted from the Google Blog)

New service for managing Account data

Hello, AdWords API developers! We're proud to say that a new AdWords API service has been released. The AccountService allows AdWords advertisers to access and modify account information like the account's currency, ads syndication preferences, etc.

For more information, please see the reference docs.

Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager
Nelson Minar, Software Engineer