Question

I’m developing a custom Adsense report tool using Google Java Client Library for Android. I’ve successfully authenticated and can make API calls to the server. but now when I receive the response, I don’t know how to parse it and correctly show the result to user.

According to the javaDocs, AdsenseReportsGenerateResponse.getRows() generates a List> But I’m kinda lost how to properly parse it to get:

-Today's earnings
-Yesterday's earnings
-Last 7 days
-Last month
-From the beginning of time

Here’s part of my code related to the question

        Reports.Generate request = adsense.reports().generate(startDate, endDate);    

        request.setMetric(Arrays.asList("PAGE_VIEWS", "AD_REQUESTS", "AD_REQUESTS_COVERAGE", "CLICKS",
                "AD_REQUESTS_CTR", "COST_PER_CLICK", "AD_REQUESTS_RPM", "EARNINGS"));

        request.setDimension(Arrays.asList("DATE", "WEEK", "MONTH"));    
        request.setSort(Arrays.asList("+DATE"));

        AdsenseReportsGenerateResponse response = request.execute();

        //TODO: Here be dragons
        response.getRows();

Edit: Here is the javaDoc which mentions the getRow()

Hmm it seems nobody on this site can help?!

Answer 1

You should find our sample code useful: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/wiki/APIs#AdSense_Management_API

Namely, this is the file you’re interested in: http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/source/browse/adsense-cmdline-sample/src/main/java/com/google/api/services/samples/adsense/cmdline/GenerateReport.java?repo=samples

Here’s a snippet of code to print the output. Mind you, this is for a command line application, but should be easily adaptable:

if ((response.getRows() != null) && !response.getRows().isEmpty()) {
  // Display headers.
  for (AdsenseReportsGenerateResponseHeaders header : response.getHeaders()) {
    System.out.printf("%25s", header.getName());
  }
  System.out.println();

  // Display results.
  for (List<String> row : response.getRows()) {
    for (String column : row) {
      System.out.printf("%25s", column);
    }
    System.out.println();
    }

  System.out.println();
} else {
  System.out.println("No rows returned.");
}

As for getting the data for different periods of time, you should probably be running different reports, not cramming it all into one, as that would take different start dates and end dates. Here’s how it works:

• Today’s earnings: set the start and end dates to today, set the dimension list to just DATE
• Yesterday’s earnings: set the start and end date to yesterday, set the dimension list to just DATE
• Last 7 days: if you want data per day, then you set the start date to 7 days ago, the end date to today, and the dimension list to just DATE. If you want to aggregate the stats, you may need to calculate this yourself, as WEEK and MONTH refer to a calendar week and month, not the last 7 days.
• Last month: start date 1st of last month, end date last day of the month, dimension MONTH.
• All time: how do you want this aggregated? Per month? Then set the start date to, say, 1980-1-1, end date to today and dimension to MONTH.

This blog post should help with understanding reporting concepts a bit better: http://adsenseapi.blogspot.com/2011/11/adsense-management-api-diving-into.html

Let me know if you need help with anything else!