I'd think such a thing could be done via cURL or HTTP posting (in whatever language).
I've even seen in a couple places on this forum where people mention wanting to try such a thing, but no indication that anyone has successfully done it.
I'm a good programmer but not an HTTP posting expert, and haven't yet been able to successfully interact with adwords.
Any way I try to do a login I get a "we are unable to process your request" page in response. I've tried via cURL, PHP, .Net (C#), and Delphi. With cURL I've tried every flag that might help (especially for cookies)
So I guess what I'm asking (pardon the lengthy preamble!) is:
Has anyone successfully interacted with adwords programmatically?
Is there some "magic voodoo" trick to get past the login and then be able to do subsequent posts?
At this point I'd be happy even if I had to do a manual login first, if that would somehow allow automation for everything else.
Any insight (even if it's to say "there's no way to get it to work") would be appreciated.
Thanks for the help.
[edited by: dmerrick at 10:29 pm (utc) on Sep. 7, 2003]
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I am no techie, so cant answer your question which is a very interesting question may I add.
just for the record, is what you are proposing aginst Google Adwords terms and conditions?
Shak
As far as I can tell, it's not against the Google Adwords terms and conditions. Though I should probably ask them just to be sure.
I actually did ask them a few days ago if there is anything like a "google adwords api" or an "ad upload" capability in the works and was told:
"We currently do not offer a way to upload ads from a database, though we do hope to offer a service like this in the future."
So they don't seem to be against the general idea. Though maybe they'd view what I'm looking to do as being too "open", verses an api or upload that's been "blessed" by Google
-Darrell
