APIlitAx 1.0.1 Released: AJAX GUI for AdWords

We are pleased to announce that APIlitAx v1.0.1, an open source AJAX GUI for AdWords, is now available for download.

Version 1.0.1 includes many new modifications including:

• a more compact UI design, more consistent icon layout,
• a WYSIWYG creative editor,
• better support for Javascript multi-window interface,
• support for creative exemption requests, and
• better support for many browsers including MSIE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, and Camino on the Linux, Windows and Mac platforms.
• support for the AdWords API sandbox.

APIlitAx is an open source project founded by AdWords API Specialist Thomas Steiner. As with all open source projects, we encourage any and all developers to submit external contributions. For more information, or to learn how to contribute to APIlitAx, please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/apilitax.

-- Jon Diorio, Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Correction: New Terms & Conditions

We recently identified and corrected an error on our new Terms and Conditions preview page. While there are still a few more weeks before these new Terms and Conditions go into effect, we wanted to let you all know about the correction as early as possible.

Specifically, we made one edit to section III 2a. We marked up the edits directly on the document so you can see what has changed.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

The API Sandbox has Arrived!

We are very happy to announce the general availability of our new AdWords API Sandbox. The AdWords API Sandbox is an environment that replicates the API of our production system, for developing, testing and debugging applications that use the API. Most importantly, operations performed in the Sandbox do not consume quota points.

For your reference, we have created a new “Sandbox” section of the AdWords API Developer’s Guide. You can find this page at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/adwords_api_sandbox.html.

We hope you find value in this new service, and we’ll be watching the Forum closely for your feedback.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

System Maintenance - July 29

We will be performing routine AdWords system maintenance from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PDT on Saturday, July 29, 2006. While all AdWords advertisements will continue to run as normal, you may not be able to perform any API operations during this maintenance period.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

--Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

AdWords API Java Client Library updated

Yesterday we released version 0.4 of the AdWords API Java Client Library. There are very few code changes and it still supports AdWords API v4 (except a a fix to the AdWordsService interface which was lacking a few methods used for quota management).

There are many improvements in the documentation and samples.
The javadoc for the library has been updated to reflect the new architecture, and now we ship samples showing how to use all the services, and the most useful methods in the API.

In addition to that, we now have a list of client libraries and samples available on the AdWords API Open Source Projects Wiki Page.

-- Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API Evangelist

Version 3 Shutdown Today

Please take note… per our announcement on May 12, we will shutdown Version 3 of the API today.

Please make sure you have migrated your applications to Version 4 in order to ensure uninterrupted service. You can find more information about Version 4 (including the release notes) at http://www.google.com/apis/adwords/developer/index.html.

-- Rohit Dhawan, Product Manager

REMINDER: Phasing-out KeywordService

As a follow-up to our September 30 and April 13 postings, we would like to remind everyone that we will remove KeywordService from our next version of the AdWords API (due out in a few weeks).

Therefore, any API applications still calling KeywordService should begin migrating to CriterionService as soon as possible.

-- Patrick Chanezon, AdWords API evangelist