Whether you're making your first API call or troubleshooting some crufty SOAP plumbing, we hope doing so is about to get a whole lot easier. Today, we're releasing 140 new code samples — 20 each in 7 (programming) languages. We redesigned the samples so they'd be:

• simpler — every file has a discrete task and a minimum of external dependencies to better illustrate how it works,
• more comprehensive — all the API's representative methods and most popular client languages are covered, and
• more reliable — the code is normalized across languages for less expensive maintenance and updates.

Give them a try and tell us what you think!

You can download the latest sources from the AdWords API website.

— Brian Kennish, Developer Programs Engineer

We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, March 8 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.

Cheers,
-Jeffrey Posnick, AdWords API Team

An internal issue affecting the AdWords API servers for the past several days caused some requests to the API service to fail with an HTTP error of 502. We recently identified and resolved this issue, and all AdWords API services should be functioning normally at this time.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this issue may have caused to users of the API while the issue was being resolved.

-The AdWords API Team

We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, February 16 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.

Cheers,
-Jeffrey Posnick, AdWords API Team

We have extended the V10 sunset to March 18, 2008 in order to give all developers more time to adapt to the new ReportService interface. The original sunset date was February 18, 2008.

-- Borana Toska, Product Marketing

We are happy to announce the release of our new Python client library.

The AdWords API Python Client Library makes it easier to write Python clients to programmatically access AdWords accounts. Main features include:

• the ability to hide the SOAP layer from end users,
• on demand logging of all SOAP messages,
• support for API calls against the production system or sandbox,
• automatic data type conversion for all API call parameters,
• tracking of all API usage, and
• report downloading in XML or CSV formats.

The Python Client Library is located at http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-python-lib/

Additional information can be found at http://google-api-adwords-python-lib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.

Bugs and feature requests can be filed at
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-python-lib/issues/list.

-- Borana Toska, Product Marketing

We'll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, January 12 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won't be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.

Cheers,
-Jeffrey Posnick, AdWords API Team