Hourly AdGroup Performance Report

[Tyler]

Can anyone provide an example of how to run an AdGroup performance
report for a given time frame at the hour level?

For example, 8pm Wednesday to 8pm Thursday.

Any help or a point in the right direction would be great. I'm
currently using the PHP client library to do things like update bids
but I can't find any examples of how to run an hourly report.

[Peter Stannett]

Hi Tyler

I'm definitely no expert but I would imagine you might need to run a
cron job?

Would you be willing to show me the code in php for how you wrote your
report?

I'm very new to the api and trying to find a decent example of
reporting in php is quite hard!

Kind regards
Peter

[Tyler]

I haven't created reports with the API yet.

The only examples in the PHP client library are for getting a list of
existing reports and downloading existing reports. You can't create
hourly reports through the web interface so I'm looking for an example
of creating an hourly adgroup performance report.

[Darrin]

Tyler... sorry to say, but it can't be done. The most granular you
can get is daily -- midnight-to-midnight in the timezone your account
has been created in. This is true for all the reports, not just
adgroup performance. I've been asking Google for this since 2003.

[Take this next part with a grain of salt as I may be mixing up
companies here and this is based on very old testing...]
The only use that timezone provides in the request is to adjust your
'date' requested from the request timzone to the account timezone.
I.e. if you request a report for 1/1/11 02:00:00EST and your account
is in PST it will return a report for 12/31/10. Other than that, the
time portion of the request is ignored.

Regards,
Darrin

[Navneet]

I had the same issue but it was resolved with a work around. Download
the data every hour and deduct the previous hour total to get the
delta for that hour.

I hope that make sense.

Thanks
--Navneet

[Eric Koleda]

Hi All,

Hourly ad group reports are possible in the UI and the API.  In v13 this was done with the HourlyByDate or HourlyRegardlessDate aggregationType:

  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report_adgroup.html#aggr_AdGroupHourlyByDate

  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report_adgroup.html#aggr_AdGroupHourlyRegardlessDate

With the new reporting system this can be done by adding the HourOfDay field to your ADGROUP_PERFORMANCE_REPORT:

  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/reports.html#ad-group

Best,

- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team

[Darrin Skinner]

Wow! I like it when I'm totally wrong like this! Thanks for
bringing me up to date Eric.

Darrin

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[Tyler]

Eric thanks for the feedback. Do you have any idea of where I could
get a working example of how to call this report in PHP?

On Mar 10, 10:20 pm, Eric Koleda <eric.kol...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hourly ad group reports are possible in the UI and the API.  In v13 this was
> done with the HourlyByDate or HourlyRegardlessDate aggregationType:
>

> http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report...
>  http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/developer/adwords_api_report...

[Eric Koleda]

Hi Tyler,

There isn't an example for this exact type of report, but there is an example for a KEYWORDS report that you can use as a starting point:

  http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/source/browse/trunk/examples/v201101/AddKeywordsPerformanceReportDefinition.php

Best,

- Eric

[Muhammad Shahzad]

Can this be achieved using javascript?

[Peter Oliquino]

Hi Muhammad,

If you wish to use Javascript, then I would recommend that you get in touch with the AdWords Scripts team for more information as to how you can achieve this.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team