New Ads API Request (multiple CIDs in a single request)

[rob]

I'd like to submit a feature request - hopefully this is something that could be implemented at some point. 

My request is simple. I'm requesting the ability to submit a request on behalf of multiple CIDs (potentially up to 100 at a time) via the reporting interface. 

There are times when pulling a large amount of CIDs through one API call would be highly beneficial vs sending 100 separate requests to the endpoint. 

This request, IMHO, would reduce request load on your end, as well as ours. The feature would be beneficial for both sides of the operation. 

Thoughts? 

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for bringing up your request. In order to understand further, could you please let me know if the client customer ids that you are trying to run reports against are under same MCC id or different MCC id? If under the same MCC id, you could try this sample code in java to download reports in parallel. Please note that this sample is for the AdGroup Performance Report but you can run it for other reports as well. For other programming languages, please refer here. 

Regards,

Dhanya, AdWords API Team

[rob]

They're not always under the same MCC ID. 

I understand that we can use tools like aw-reporting (i've contributed multiple fixes and improvements to that project), and utilize it's multi-threading, etc. 

However, this isn't always the best way to do this. I've got a more "real-time" use for that functionality in a web environment, so utilizing PHP would be more likely used for this request.  

That being said, I know I can thread out these requests one at a time, which puts more load everywhere. The situations where the MCC IDs are different, the ability to submit an array of authorized CIDs to the reporting interface would be highly preferred. 

[Dhanya Sundararaju (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for the clarification. I will request this with my team. Please keep an eye on the blog for future updates.

[rob]

Dhanya, 

I appreciate that very much, thank you! 

- Rob