Run reports

To produce performance data for your agency account, run a report to initiate an asynchronous operation for an existing Report template.

This guide covers how you can produce a report describing your agency account's performance by using the Agencies & Brands API to run a Report template.

Before you begin

Before you continue, you must complete the following:

Initiate a report run

To run an existing report, use the agencies.reports.run method.

The following example makes a POST request to initiate a report run:

REST

Request

curl --request POST \
  'https://agenciesandbrands.googleapis.com/v1/agencies/ACCOUNT_ID/reports/123456789:run' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{}' \
  --compressed

Replace the following:

  • ACCOUNT_ID: your account ID.
  • ACCESS_TOKEN: your access token.

Response

{
  "name": "agencies/ACCOUNT_ID/reports/123456789/operations/10486370264",
  "done": false,
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.ads.agenciesandbrands.v1.RunReportMetadata"
  }
}

Java

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package com.google.api.services.samples.agenciesandbrands.v1.agencies.reports;

import com.google.api.services.agenciesandbrands.v1.AgenciesAndBrands;
import com.google.api.services.agenciesandbrands.v1.model.Operation;
import com.google.api.services.agenciesandbrands.v1.model.RunReportRequest;
import com.google.api.services.samples.agenciesandbrands.v1.Utils;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.ArgumentParsers;
import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.ArgumentParser;
import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.ArgumentParserException;
import net.sourceforge.argparse4j.inf.Namespace;

public class RunReport {

  /**
   * Executes the run operation for a report.
   *
   * @param agenciesAndBrandsClient the initialized Agencies & Brands API client.
   * @param accountId the account ID of the agency that created the report.
   * @param reportId the resource ID of the report to run.
   * @throws IOException if the API returns an error.
   */
  public static void execute(
      AgenciesAndBrands agenciesAndBrandsClient, Long accountId, String reportId)
      throws IOException {
    String name = String.format("agencies/%s/reports/%s", accountId, reportId);

    System.out.printf("Running report with name \"%s\".%n", name);

    RunReportRequest requestBody = new RunReportRequest();

    // Run the specified report to start an asynchronous operation.
    Operation operation =
        agenciesAndBrandsClient
            .agencies()
            .reports()
            .run(name, requestBody)
            .execute();

    System.out.println("Successfully initiated report run operation:");
    Utils.jsonPrettyPrint(operation);
  }

  /**
   * Creates and configures the ArgumentParser for this sample.
   *
   * @return the configured ArgumentParser.
   */
  private static ArgumentParser createArgumentParser() {
    ArgumentParser parser =
        ArgumentParsers.newFor("RunReport")
            .build()
            .defaultHelp(true)
            .description("Runs a specified report asynchronously, returning an Operation " +
                "that can be used to track its progress.");

    // Required arguments.
    parser
        .addArgument("-a", "--account_id")
        .help("The account ID of the agency that created the report.")
        .required(true)
        .type(Long.class);
    parser
        .addArgument("-r", "--report_id")
        .help("The resource ID of the report to run.")
        .required(true);

    return parser;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ArgumentParser parser = createArgumentParser();

    Namespace parsedArgs = null;
    try {
      parsedArgs = parser.parseArgs(args);
    } catch (ArgumentParserException ex) {
      parser.handleError(ex);
      System.exit(1);
    }

    AgenciesAndBrands client = null;
    try {
      client = Utils.getAgenciesAndBrandsClient();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
      System.out.printf("Unable to create Agencies & Brands API service:%n%s", ex);
      System.out.println("Did you specify a valid path to a service account key file?");
      System.exit(1);
    } catch (GeneralSecurityException ex) {
      System.out.printf("Unable to establish secure HttpTransport:%n%s", ex);
      System.exit(1);
    }

    try {
      execute(
          client,
          parsedArgs.getLong("account_id"),
          parsedArgs.getString("report_id"));
    } catch (IOException ex) {
      System.out.printf("Agencies & Brands API returned error response:%n%s", ex);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }
}

Running a report is an asynchronous long-running operation. When you call the run method, the Agencies & Brands API responds with an Operation resource. The name field of the operation identifies the run operation and has the following format:

agencies/ACCOUNT_ID/reports/REPORT_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID

The returned Operation object contains the following:

  • name: the server-assigned name for the long-running operation. The REPORT_ID is a unique identifier for the report template you have run. The OPERATION_ID is a unique identifier Google assigns to the operation you create when you run a report template.
  • metadata: optional service-specific progress information. The metadata field might not be populated in the Operation object that you receive in the agencies.reports.run response.

After initiating a report run, you can't view the report results until the operation's done field is the true value. The length of time a report run takes to complete varies based on the complexity of the report.

Next steps