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With Google announcing new Google Buzz API features today, real-time search engine OneRiot has followed up by announcing the inclusion of Google Buzz data in its real-time search products.OneRiot says it’s one of the first companies to get access to the Google Buzz “firehose” — the full stream of all public activities on Buzz. OneRiot [...]

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Reporting is an integral part of most AdWords API applications. To help you create and manage reports related to your AdWords campaigns, we introduced the ReportDefinitionService in the v201003 version of the AdWords API. In this post, we’ll cover the basics of working with the ReportDefinitionService. If you’ve used the v13 ReportService, you’ll notice that the new ReportDefinitionService differs in many ways from its v13 counterpart.Retrieving the report fieldsTo create a report in the v201003 version of AdWords API, you pick a report type of your choice and then retrieve the list of supported…

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Authorization tokens were introduced with v2009 as part of the authorization mechanism adopted for the new version, ClientLogin. This new approach allows us to separate authorization from API requests, making it a two step process: first retrieve a token, and then include it with your requests.How ClientLogin worksClientLogin was designed as a standalone authentication and authorization procedure that returns a token, if successful. This token is then supplied together with the requests as a form of proof that the user is who they claim to be, and that they are allowed access to the API. Since…

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One of the ways that we ensure reliable access to the AdWords API system is to enforce a queries per second (QPS) limit. This limit is in place to prevent out-of-control or malicious software from overwhelming the API servers with requests and causing problems for other developers. A token bucket algorithm is used to meter the requests, allowing for both steady and burst traffic to the API. It’s not possible to recommend exact numbers on safe QPS levels, since the rate limit fluctuates based on several variables, including server load. In the v13 version of the API, requests that were made…

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Many of our keen members observed that late last week, Linkscape’s index updated (this is actually our 27th index update since starting the project in 2008). This means new link data in Open Site Explorer and Linkscape Classic, as well as new metric data via the mozbar and in our API.Index 27 StatisticsFor those who are interested, you can follow the Linkscape index update calendar on our API Wiki (as you can see, this update was about a week early).Although we’ve now crawled many hundreds of billions of pages since launch, we only serve our uber-freshest index. Historical data is something we…

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Back in 2007, we first introduced support for video ads (Click-to-Play Video) in the AdWords API. This required a dedicated VideoAd type, which made it less adaptive to future video formats. The AdWords API has significantly improved since then with more flexible support for handling various ad types.Video ads in the API are now supported through a new type, the TemplateAd. Template ads allow for an easy way to introduce new ad types, defined through template ad formats, without having to add new ad types. In turn, this makes it possible to release new ad features and updates much faster without…

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Many of you have heard by now that Twitter this week integrated the ability to annotate tweets with specific place information. This is an extension of the location awareness first integrated in its API and then more recently to Twitter.com.But instead of Tweeting from “San Francisco”, I now get the ability to specify that I’m …

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Do you like web analytics data? Do you like number crunching in Excel? Get ready to drool once you click on the images below to look at them up close. But don’t jump ahead just yet! A little background on a great story…When we released the Google Analytics Data Export API, we were excited to see what developers would build – but it’s even more exhilarating to see developers profiting from all their hard work. One developer, Mikael Thuneberg, has succeeded in doing just that, by starting a new business consulting around our API called AutomateAnalytics.com.Mikael started working with the API…

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Today we’re releasing a new version of the AdWords API: v201003 beta. This version contains many requested features, including: a ReportService beta, Ad Sitelinks, and bid simulator. We know many of you just migrated to v200909, so don’t worry, your v200909 code will continue to work normally — v200909 remains the latest out-of-beta release and is fully supported by our team.Here’s the full list of what’s new in version v201003 beta:ReportService beta: generate reports about the performance of your AdWords campaignsBid simulator: see estimated clicks, cost and impressions corresponding…

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The Sandbox Account Viewer is a sample application that demonstrates how to use the AdWords API client library to display contents of an AdWords sandbox account. It can be used to visualize the effects of a request on your account and to retrieve information such as IDs that are needed when running examples. We are sharing this code as open source to provide a starting point for new developers and to demonstrate some of the core functionality in the API.The Sandbox Account Viewer does not attempt to replicate the official AdWords web interface, but rather displays information exactly as it is…

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