Report to plot Graph with in example clicks over impressions

[Michael D]

Hi,

im trying to build a Graph to visualize Clicks versus Impressions or Click versus CostPerClick.

For this I need to know how much clicks, impressions and so on I get per day for every given day in a choosen period of time.

Is this possible with Reports?

Thanks in advance

Michael

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Michael,

Yes, this can be done. You could use a CUSTOM_DATE option as mentioned in this guide: https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting

Cheers,

Anash P. Oommen,

AdWords API Advisor.

[Michael D]

Hi Anash,

Thank you for the information. I will try this later.

Cheers,
Michael

[Michael D]

Hi Anash,

with CUSTOM_DATE option the report for a plot works well ;)

Is it possible to set on specific day instead of a dateRange?
Or do I have to do it like this?

                    <dateRange>
                    <min>20150428</min>
                    <max>20150429</max>
                   </dateRange>

Is this teh Day 2015/04/28? What I mean is does 20150428 mean that the min dateRange starts at the beginning or the end of the day 20150428?
Is there a way to automaticly get the first available day for a specific Campaign?

Thanks in advance.

Michael

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Michael,

1. If you specify 20150428 for min and max, you will get the stats for the whole day 2015/04/28.

2. There's an ALL_TIME option that will give you the stats going back to beginning of the account date, you could scan it to see when the stats started showing up for a specific campaign. There's no direct way to figure out when a campaign was created, and started serving.

Cheers,

Anash

[Michael D]

Hi Anash,

I builded a Graph to visualize Clicks versus Impressions or something else and it works fine.

But it is a bit slow with how im doing it.

For example if the user wants a plot with clicks versus impressions for the last month, then im doing 30 seperate requests for every Day in this month. This takes too much time.

Is there a way to do this in one request?

Cheers,
Michael

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Michael,

AdWords scripts cannot tell you when an adgroup started serving, the best thing you can do is to request the Date column and find out the first known impression from that ad group.

As for performance: we have a best practice guide available at https://developers.google.com/adwords/scripts/docs/best-practices. I recommend taking a look at it; it may help you figure out how to improve your script's performance. If that doesn't work, let me know and I can take a look at your script.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.