Tool/Script to Automatically Check Adsense Earnings

[barkoneus]

I'm new to Adsense and also these forums. Did some searching here and on Google, but could not find any tools/scripts that would allow me to check my current Adsense earnings for the day(or whatever) without actually going on and logging into the adsense site. I found a couple mentions of such programs in beta, but none that actually existed.

Is there a particular reason for this, ie does Google frown upon it? Or are people mostly just happy with using the website to check their stats? I'd hate to get started on writing something, piss off Google and get kicked out!

Apologies if I've missed something extremely obvious about this somewhere.

barkoneus

[AZEvil]

I don't know of any that have been released, but I'll give you a couple pieces of advice:

1. Don't worry about checking your stats so often that it requires a script like this.

2. If you really want to see how things are going real-time so that you can tweak the ad formats and see how that effects clicks, get ahold of one of the AdSense tracking scripts.

[UniBlue]

I use a software called snip to help me manage my Adsense and Adwords accounts. It allows you to automate your login to (for example) Adsense and automatically download the data you need. You can schedule the software to run automatically every day.

[edited by: Jenstar at 3:33 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2005]
[edit reason] No URLs to AdSense tools, as per TOS & charter [/edit]

[Jon_King]

Along the same subject... Every time I log-in I go to the same set of report params, wouldn't it help if you could set a default report.

[beside]

I found this software snip, but there is no currently any release. Still waiting.

[edited by: Jenstar at 3:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2005]
[edit reason] No URLs to AdSense tools, as per TOS & charter [/edit]

[Jon_King]

Beside, this seems just a spam page. I think you will be waiting a while.

[freeflight2]

all you need to do is to write a little perl script doing that for you - it needs to call
[google.com...]
and then to extract the earnings portion (regex is / earnings\s*(.*?)\s*©/)
I wrote a cgi like that getting this and many more vital info (servers/DB statuses etc) and putting it all on one tiny PDA page for my reading pleassure ;)

[UniBlue]

Just to clarify: The software I mentioned is NOT a specific adsense tool. It is generic web automation software to record all your clicks in Internet Explorer browser and then replay it. So basically it does the same thing as a perl script, just that it is much easier to use and can do some things that perl can not do, like clicking on javascript dialogs or storing your passwords encrypted. But you still need some basic html knowledge to get it working correctly.