Data that can be pulled from Ads API

[Sangs]

Yes. I filled the application and got the access almost after 3 weeks. Yet I am not able to pull.

[hector_borras]

In this case, I don’t know if I can help you.

First of all, try to share with me an easy twurl request related to the Twitter ads API. I’m going to put here an example of a request and of a response. After that, do the same and paste it here

REQUEST:
twurl -H https://ads-api-sandbox.twitter.com /1/accounts | python -m json.tool

RESPONSE

{
    "data": [
        {
            "approval_status": "ACCEPTED",
            "created_at": "2015-03-26T20:08:15Z",
            "deleted": false,
            "id": "gq0vj7",
            "name": "Sandbox account for @CyberclickAds",
            "salt": "f5a078053515d463117c431f182ab457",
            "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
            "timezone_switch_at": null,
            "updated_at": "2015-06-16T12:26:27Z"
        }
    ],
    "data_type": "account",
    "next_cursor": null,
    "request": {
        "params": {}
    },
    "total_count": 1
}

Now is your turn

[Sangs]

Lol Okay. I have pasted my response.

{
“data”: [],
“data_type”: “account”,
“next_cursor”: null,
“request”: {
“params”: {}
},
“total_count”: 0
}

I can see that data is empty. But i am not sure if that is because of my account not being whitelisted or because of my command. I tried to understand your command but I couldn’t. So I ended up copy pasting it

[hector_borras]

Good! It looks like you hace access.

As you can see we made the request against the sandbox environment, made for testing purposes.

If you try this one, we, hopefully, get a response with more content.

twurl -H https://ads-api.twitter.com /1/accounts | python -m json.tool

[Sangs]

Yes. I get the response now

{
“data”: [
{
“approval_status”: “ACCEPTED”,
“created_at”: “2014-02-10T11:55:53Z”,
“deleted”: false,
“id”: “18ce53v4otk”,
“name”: “Nissan Dubai”,
“salt”: “76f202efd7df04e74e49cf232c12cfab”,
“timezone”: “Asia/Dubai”,
“timezone_switch_at”: “2014-02-08T20:00:00Z”,
“updated_at”: “2016-04-22T17:31:45Z”
}
],
“data_type”: “account”,
“next_cursor”: null,
“request”: {
“params”: {}
},
“total_count”: 1
}

Thank you very much Can you please tell me how can I get the campaign dashboard? And I just want to reconfirm that Analytics dashboard cannot be pulled by ADS API.

[hector_borras]

So, the thing is that your app is OK and you have access.

You can retrieve stats following this link https://dev.twitter.com/ads/analytics and making the correct requests.

[Sangs]

Hi Borras,
Thank you very much for all your responses. It was a good learning.
I tried using the requests from the link you provided. All that I get is “No JSON object could be decoded”.

I know its difficult for you to troubleshoot my errors. But can you provide me some materials to learn more on Twurl commands?(The internet has very few)

And please reconfirm if we can download the analytics data through this API. Because AndyPiper told me that it can be downloaded only from Gnip. For you ref: https://twittercommunity.com/t/is-there-any-method-for-grabbing-statistics-of-twitter-account/42248

[hector_borras]

Hi @Sangs!

You get that error because the response turned by Twitter wasn’t a JSON so the “pipe” ( | pyhon -m json.tool) didn’t recognize that, when you get that error try it without the pipe, for example: twurl -H https://ads-api.twitter.com /1/accounts

To learn twurl, best option is try the different options as you can see here: https://github.com/twitter/twurl

The important thing is that I think @andypiper was talking about the REST api, not the ADS api . You were in an incorrect forum.

Regards!

[Sangs]

Tried the same command and several other similar commands. The output is

"Usage: twurl authorize --consumer-key key --consumer-secret secret
twurl [options] /1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json

Supported Commands: accounts, alias, authorize, set

Getting started:
-T, --tutorial Narrative overview of how to get started using Twurl

Authorization options:
-u, --username [username] Username of account to authorize (required)
-p, --password [password] Password of account to authorize (required)
-c, --consumer-key [key] Your consumer key (required)
-s, --consumer-secret [secret] Your consumer secret (required)
-a, --access-token [token] Your access token
-S, --token-secret Your token secret

Common options:
-t, --[no-]trace Trace request/response traffic (default: --no-trace)
-d, --data [data] Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server.
-r, --raw-data [data] Sends the specified data as it is in a POST request to the HTTP server.
-A, --header [header] Adds the specified header to the request to the HTTP server.
-H, --host [host] Specify host to make requests to (default: api.twitter.com)
-q, --quiet Suppress all output (default: output is printed to STDOUT)
-U, --no-ssl Disable SSL (default: SSL is enabled)
-X, --request-method [method] Request method (default: GET)
-P, --proxy [proxy] Specify HTTP proxy to forward requests to (default: No proxy)
-f, --file [path_to_file] Specify the path to the file to upload
-F, --file-field [field_name] Specify the POST parameter name for the file upload data (default: media)
-b, --base64 Encode the uploaded file as base64 (default: false)
-h, --help Show this message
-v, --version Show version "

I have authorized the account already by executing the commands.
I also verified it using the command: twurl accounts
Output : NissanDxb
Key

[Sangs]

Also for few commands, I got the output
{“errors”:[{“code”:“NOT_FOUND”,“message”:“Account 18ce53ur22q was not found”}],“request”:{“params”:{}}}

[Sangs]

Hi Borras,

You have mentioned that you pull campaign data everyday. Can you please share the code that you use?

[hector_borras]

I can share with you the request

For retrieve stats from a Campaign:

twurl -H https://ads-api-sandbox.twitter.com /1/stats/accounts/ACCOUNTID?granularity=DAY&metric_groups=ENGAGEMENT,CBILLING,WEB_CONVERSION&placement=ALL_ON_TWITTER&entity=CAMPAIGN&entity_ids=CAMPAIGNID&start_time=2016-05-05T00:00:00+02:00&end_time=2016-05-09T00:00:00+02:00

[brock]

@Sangs did you ever find a solution to your issue? I’m getting the exact same error message after making a near identical twurl request. The request is being performed on an account that campaign data is pulled for nearly everyday.

[majoritasdev]

@brock: what error are you getting exactly, and what request are you making exactly? Please share the raw http request and the response.

[brock]

@majoritasdev I was getting the {"errors":[{"code":"NOT_FOUND","message":"Account xxxxx was not found"}],"request":{"params":{}}} error, where xxxxx was the account ID. I resolved the issue, but only by using the https://ads-api.twitter.com/1/ endpoint as opposed to the https://ads-api-sandbox.twitter.com/1/ endpoint.

[hector_borras]

Data in sandbox is totally different.

Sandbox account is different and totally independent to production environment

[Sangs]

Hi @brock. No I am still stuck there. Can you tell me how you resolved the issue?

[majoritasdev]

@Sangs: By switching to the production environment, as far as I understand.

[hector_borras]

I don’t know how to explain it better hahahaha

[Sangs]

I am still not able to get any data ( Campaign Performance data) from the API. Please let me know if you have any updates on this.