Synchronous Requests

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If you're requesting small to moderate advertiser or engine-account reports, you can send just a single, synchronous report request. In response to the request, the Search Ads 360 API will return the entire report in a JSON object. Synchronous requests:

If you're requesting large advertiser or engine-account reports, we recommend the asynchronous approach.

To make a synchronous request

Call Reports.generate() to specify the type of data you want in your advertiser or engine account report.

Search Ads 360 validates the request, generates the report, and returns the report as a Reports resource in the response body.

Example synchronous request

The following is an example Reports.generate() request.

JSON

POST  https://www.googleapis.com/doubleclicksearch/v2/reports/generate
Authorization: Bearer your OAuth 2.0 access token
Content-type: application/json

{
  "reportScope": {
    "agencyId": "12300000000000456", // Replace with your ID
    "advertiserId": "21700000000011523", // Replace with your ID
    "engineAccountId": "700000000073991" // Replace with your ID
  },
  "reportType": "account",              // This report covers all revenue and visits in the
                                        // engine account specified in reportScope.
  "columns": [
    { "columnName": "date" },           // The date column segments the report by individual days.

    { "columnName": "dfaRevenue" },     // Here are some metric columns available for keyword
    {                                   // reports.
      "columnName": "visits",
      "startDate": "2013-01-01",        // Each metric column can optionally specify its own start 
      "endDate": "2013-01-31",          // and end date; by default the report timeRange is used.
      "headerText": "January visits"    // Every column can optionally specify a headerText, which
                                        // changes the name of the column in the report.
    }
  ],
  "timeRange" : {
    "startDate" : "2012-05-01",         // Dates are inclusive and specified in YYYY-MM-DD format.
    "endDate" : "2013-05-01"

    // Alternatively, try the "changedMetricsSinceTimestamp" or "changedAttributesSinceTimestamp"
    // options. See Incremental reports.

  },
  "statisticsCurrency": "agency",       // Required. See Currency for statistics.
  "verifySingleTimeZone": false,        // Optional. Defaults to false. See Time zone.
  "includeRemovedEntities": false           // Optional. Defaults to false.
}

Java

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Doubleclicksearch service = getService(); // See Set Up Your Application.
    Report report = generateAccountReport(service);
    outputReport(report, "./");
  }

  /**
   * Creates an account report using the synchronous Report.generate method.
   *
   * @throws IOException
   */
  private static Report generateAccountReport(Doubleclicksearch service) throws IOException {
    try {
      return service.reports().generate(generateAccountRequest()).execute();
    } catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
      System.err.println("Report request was rejected.");
      for (ErrorInfo error : e.getDetails().getErrors()) {
        System.err.println(error.getMessage());
      }
      System.exit(e.getStatusCode());
      return null; // Unreachable code.
    }
  }

  /**
   * Creates a simple static request that lists the clicks and visits for an engine account. Use
   * your own agency ID, advertiser ID, and engine account ID.
   */
  private static ReportRequest generateAccountRequest() {
    return new ReportRequest().setReportScope(
      new ReportScope()
        .setAgencyId(20700000000000451L) // Replace with your ID
        .setAdvertiserId(21700000000010391L) // Replace with your ID
        .setEngineAccountId(700000000042201L)) // Replace with your ID
        .setReportType("account")
        .setColumns(Arrays.asList(new ReportApiColumnSpec[] {
            new ReportApiColumnSpec().setColumnName("date"),
            new ReportApiColumnSpec().setColumnName("dfaRevenue"),
            new ReportApiColumnSpec()
                .setColumnName("visits")
                .setHeaderText("January visits")
                .setStartDate("2013-01-01")
                .setEndDate("2013-01-31"),}))
        .setTimeRange(new TimeRange()
          .setStartDate("2012-05-01")
          .setEndDate("2013-05-01"))
        .setStatisticsCurrency("agency");
  }

  /**
   * Outputs a synchronous report to a file.
   */
  private static void outputReport(Report report, String localPath)
      throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(localPath, "Report"));
    final PrintStream printStream = new PrintStream(outputStream);
    printStream.print(report);
    printStream.close();
  }

Python

def generate_report(service):
  """Generate and print sample report.

  Args:
    service: An authorized Doubleclicksearch service.  See Set Up Your Application.
  """
  request = service.reports().generate(
      body=
      {
        "reportScope
            "agencyId": "12300000000000456", // Replace with your ID
            "advertiserId": "21700000000011523", // Replace with your ID
            "engineAccountId": "700000000073991" // Replace with your ID
            },
        "reportType": "account",
        "columns": [
            { "columnName": "date" },
            { "columnName": "dfaRevenue" },
            {
              "columnName": "visits",
              "startDate": "2013-01-01",
              "endDate": "2013-01-31",
              "headerText": "January visits"
             }
        ],
        "timeRange" : {
            "startDate" : "2012-05-01",
            "endDate" : "2013-05-01"
        },
        "statisticsCurrency": "agency",
        "verifySingleTimeZone": "false",
        "includeRemovedEntities": "false"
        }
  )

  pprint.pprint(request.execute())

Example report

The response to a synchronous request is a report object. If the request successfully validated, the first few properties in the object contain metadata that describes the request you submitted. The report itself is in the object's rows property. 

{
  "kind":"doubleclicksearch#report",
  "request":{
    "columns":[
      {"columnName":"date"},
      {"columnName":"dfaRevenue"},
      {"columnName":"visits","endDate":"2013-01-31","headerText":"visits last month","startDate":"2013-01-01"}
    ],
    "includeDeletedEntities":false,
    "reportScope":{
      "agencyId":"12300000000000456",
      "advertiserId":"21700000000011523",
      "engineAccountId":"700000000073991"
     },
    "reportType":"account",
    "rowCount":10000,
    "startRow":0,
    "statisticsCurrency":"agency",
    "timeRange":{
      "endDate":"2013-05-01",
      "startDate":"2012-05-01"
     }
  },
  "rowCount":366,
  "rows":[
    {
      "date":"2012-05-01",
      "dfaRevenue":0.0,
      "visits last month":0.0
    },
    {
      "date":"2012-05-02",
      "dfaRevenue":0.0,
      "visits last month":0.0
    },
    {
      "date":"2012-05-03",
      "dfaRevenue":0.0,
      "visits last month":0.0
    },
    {
      "date":"2012-05-04",
      "dfaRevenue":0.0,
      "visits last month":0.0
     },
     ...
  ]
}

If validation fails

If the report does not pass validation, Search Ads 360 returns an HTTP 400 response with an error object. For example, the example request above did not specify a real agency: 

{
 "error": {
   "code": 400,
   "message": "statisticsCurrency: the agency in scope does not have a valid currency. Please make sure the agency is properly initialized in Search Ads 360."
 }
}

Splitting synchronous reports into multiple responses

By default, a synchronous request returns the first 10000 rows. To change that behavior, use the Reports.request.startRow and Reports.request.rowCount properties to retrieve specific parts of the report with each request.

Example of splitting a synchronous report

For example, this request will return the first hundred rows (0 through 99) of an agency report that's segmented by day:

{
  "reportScope": {
    "agencyId": "12300000000000456", // Replace with your ID
    "advertiserId": "21700000000011523", // Replace with your ID
    "engineAccountId": "700000000073991" // Replace with your ID
  },
  "reportType": "account",
  "columns": [
    { "columnName": "date" },
    { "columnName": "dfaRevenue" }
  ],
  "timeRange" : {
    "startDate" : "2012-05-01",
    "endDate" : "2013-05-01"
  },
  "startRow":"0",
  "rowCount":"100",
  "statisticsCurrency": "agency",
  "verifySingleTimeZone": false,
  "includeRemovedEntities": false
}

You can follow this request with another request for rows 100 to 199:

{
  "reportScope": {
    "agencyId": "12300000000000456", // Replace with your ID
    "advertiserId": "21700000000011523", // Replace with your ID
    "engineAccountId": "700000000073991" // Replace with your ID
  },
  "reportType": "account",
  "columns": [
    { "columnName": "date" },
    { "columnName": "dfaRevenue" }
  ],
  "timeRange" : {
    "startDate" : "2012-05-01",
    "endDate" : "2013-05-01"
  },
  "startRow":"100",
  "rowCount":"100",
  "statisticsCurrency": "agency",
  "verifySingleTimeZone": false,
  "includeRemovedEntities": false
}