Best practice to get day by day statistics on Account, Campaign and Adgroup level

[Amr Abdel-wahab]

Hello,

I am still a newbie in using the adwords api, am using python client library with google app engine basically what I need to do is to get the statistics of a specific period of time day by day to draw a graph of days against clicks or impressions for example on this period

What's the best practice for doing this on the account, campaign and adgroup level.

Many Thanks,
Amr Abdelwahab

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Amr,

Check out the reporting reference here:

  https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports

You can pull the campaign performance report with "Date", "HourOfDay", "Impressions", and "Clicks" fields. Similarly, see account and ad group performance reports.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Amr Abdel-wahab]

Hello Danial,

I am still lost I mean I need to get these data as objects to use it dynamically in google appengine app, and I don't think it's the best practice to make a seperate api call for each day so for example to draw a graph for last month clicks against days I will have to make 30 api calls.

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Amr,

If you add the "Date" field, you can get one row per day, just use CUSTOM_DATE date range. You can get the report in CSV or XML but then it is up to you how to parse it.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Amr Abdel-wahab]

Dear Danial,

I keep failing in doing this cause the only option in the reporting is downloading the report to the file system,, I can't get exactly how through python shall I get this data and render it to my html

On Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:42:32 AM UTC+1, Amr Abdel-wahab wrote:

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Amr,

Python lib provides the following method:

DownloadReport(self, report_definition_or_id, return_micros=False,
                     file_path=None, fileobj=None):

You can pass a filename or open handle as file_path. If you omit it, the method will return report contents as a string.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.