05 1 / 2012
Adwords Api
So I been messing around with the adwords api today, looks like im going to have to build a nice php5 codeigniter wrapper for this one too. What a mess, who wrote this sample code for google anyway? Garbage!!!!
So come to find out reading the tearms and conditions google has a Required Minimum Functionality.
So what that means is this : If you using the api to build a client you must make sure the app can do all the list of items google requires you to have.
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/requirements.html
Check out that list, i can count over 20. Who the hell wants to make sure a user can do all of that?
I sure dont, all i want to to grab some specific data and display is a dashboard. Why the hell would i need to satisfy the rest of this crap? Well reading the doc, if my app simply just is going to be a reporting only app all I need to do it make sure that I show the following:
A level of the AdWords hierarchy means one of Account (R.10-R.100), Campaign (R.110-R.246), Ad Group (R.250-R.346), Ad (R.350-R.440) or Keyword (R.450-R.560)
Well ok fine.. I guess it not all that bad then.. I was going to show that anyway.. Thank god im not building any management tools!
