> Hi,
> Sorry for bothering you again. It seems the report does not have QualityScore and FirstPageCpc for keyword, is that by purpose or not? These two are important properties for a keyword so without them it is hard to just use this Account Structure report to retrieve all keywords
> thanks
> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> wrote:
> > From: AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
> > Subject: AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad
> > To: "AdWords API Forum" <adwords-api@googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 3:46 PM
> > Hello Von,
> > Account Structure reports (http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/
> > developer/adwords_api_report_structure.html) will provide
> > you with
> > most of the basic attributes of your AdWords objects,
> > regardless of
> > whether there is any performance data available for them.
> > Of course, a
> > Structure report won't return any metrics about performance
> > data at
> > all, so if your goal is to both get a complete picture of
> > your
> > accounts each day and also get performance data, a
> > Structure report
> > alone won't do it for you.
> > While it's true that running a report to get what you
> > describe as a
> > small campaign object can be slower than the equivalent
> > getXYZ()
> > methods, in practical terms you wouldn't be running a
> > report just
> > against a single small campaign. You can run reports
> > against a whole
> > account's worth of campaigns, or multiple accounts (all
> > report types
> > other than Account Structure can be run across multiple
> > clients at a
> > time). The ReportService is designed to handle retrieving
> > large
> > amounts of data efficiently.
> > To address your other question, the AdWords API v13 will
> > always
> > authenticate each SOAP request based on the values in the
> > "email" and
> > "password" headers. It's not possible to cache anything and
> > bypass
> > this authentication, but I don't think that would be much
> > by way of
> > performance gains if there was. If you're really looking to
> > speed up
> > your current approach instead of adopting reports, do make
> > sure that
> > you're running your getXYZ() requests in parallel, either
> > from
> > multiple threads within the same process or from multiple
> > processes.
> > We recommend that you stay under four concurrent AdWords
> > API requests
> > at any given time. If you're currently only making one
> > request at a
> > time, you should see a significant reduction in your
> > overall run time
> > with that approach.
> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
> > On May 27, 9:08 pm, von journ <vonjo...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > There are a lot of limitations if we run reports to
> > get object
> > > 1) we cannot get all properties of objects
> > > 2) it is slow to run reports to get small campaign
> > objects
> > > 3) if object has no performance data then it does not
> > appear in reports. We need to find such bad perf objects and
> > optimize them
> > > API call cost is surely a big concern to us, No other
> > search engine charges that except for google ...
> > > back to the topic, we like to know if the slowness is
> > by design, or if it is our own program has problems.
> > > thanks
> > > --- On Wed, 5/27/09, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > From: AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com>
> > > > Subject: AdWords API Re: Slowness in Calling
> > adWords API to download campaign/adgroup/keyword/ad
> > > > To: "AdWords API Forum" <adwords-api@googlegroups.com>
> > > > Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 11:24 PM
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I'd recommend running reports to retrieve that
> > data rather
> > > > than
> > > > looping through all the object with various
> > getXYZ() calls.
> > > > The API
> > > > units consumed should also be considerably less
> > when
> > > > running reports
> > > > for an account of that size.
> > > > http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/ReportService.html
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
> > > > On May 27, 2:53 pm, "vonjo...@yahoo.com"
> > > > <vonjo...@yahoo.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > I have a customer with about 400K keywords,
> > 80K text
> > > > ads, 8k adgroups
> > > > > and 200 campaigns. I use adWords API to
> > download (loop
> > > > through all the
> > > > > objects) and save to sql database. It takes
> > me about
> > > > 1.5 hours to
> > > > > finish the downloading. my CPU is about 20%
> > on
> > > > average. so I guess
> > > > > most time is spend in the network of calling
> > google
> > > > adwords API.
> > > > > Is this slowness as expected, if not, what
> > are the
> > > > normal speed of
> > > > > getting all these objects downloaded to my
> > machine?
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