Create and Access Scheduled Reports

You can create and schedule reports using the Google Display & Video 360 UI or the API. For example, end users can set up a daily report showing yesterday's impressions, or a monthly report showing total spend.

Create Scheduled Reports

Create a new scheduled report in the Display & Video 360 reporting interface or with the queries.create API method. Full details on Display & Video 360's reporting functionality and how to create new reports can be found in the Display & Video 360 support site.

Reports can be scheduled at creation using the Repeats field in the UI and the schedule field in the API. These fields should be set to an appropriate time interval.

After the proper field has been set, this report will run at that schedule and the generated reports will then be available for download.

Access Scheduled Reports

Scheduled reports are generated as simple CSV files and are stored automatically and securely in Google Cloud Storage. It isn't possible, however, to access the Google Cloud Storage buckets which contain these files directly. Instead, the files may be manually downloaded from the Display & Video 360 UI or retrieved programmatically using pre-authorized URLs obtained from the API.

An example of using the API to download a report file is provided below. In this example, queries.reports.list is used with the orderBy parameter to retrieve the most recent report under a query. Then the Report.reportMetadata.googleCloudStoragePath field is used to locate the report file and download its contents to a local CSV file.

Java

Required imports:

import com.google.api.client.googleapis.media.MediaHttpDownloader;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.util.Utils;
import com.google.api.client.http.GenericUrl;
import com.google.api.services.doubleclickbidmanager.DoubleClickBidManager;
import com.google.api.services.doubleclickbidmanager.model.ListReportsResponse;
import com.google.api.services.doubleclickbidmanager.model.Report;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

Code example:

long queryId = query-id;

// Call the API, listing the reports under the given queryId from most to
// least recent.
ListReportsResponse reportListResponse =
    service
        .queries()
        .reports()
        .list(queryId)
        .setOrderBy("key.reportId desc")
        .execute();

// Iterate over returned reports, stopping once finding a report that
// finished generating successfully.
Report mostRecentReport = null;
if (reportListResponse.getReports() != null) {
  for (Report report : reportListResponse.getReports()) {
    if (report.getMetadata().getStatus().getState().equals("DONE")) {
      mostRecentReport = report;
      break;
    }
  }
} else {
  System.out.format("No reports exist for query Id %s.\n", queryId);
}

// Download report file of most recent finished report found.
if (mostRecentReport != null) {
  // Retrieve GCS URL from report object.
  GenericUrl reportUrl =
      new GenericUrl(mostRecentReport.getMetadata().getGoogleCloudStoragePath());

  // Build filename.
  String filename =
      mostRecentReport.getKey().getQueryId() + "_"
          + mostRecentReport.getKey().getReportId() + ".csv";

  // Download the report file.
  try (OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(filename)) {
    MediaHttpDownloader downloader =
        new MediaHttpDownloader(Utils.getDefaultTransport(), null);
    downloader.download(reportUrl, output);
  }
  System.out.format("Download of file %s complete.\n", filename);
} else {
  System.out.format(
      "There are no completed report files to download for query Id %s.\n",
      queryId);
}

Python

Required imports:

from contextlib import closing
from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen

Code example:

query_id = query-id

# Call the API, listing the reports under the given queryId from most to
# least recent.
response = service.queries().reports().list(queryId=query_id, orderBy="key.reportId desc").execute()

# Iterate over returned reports, stopping once finding a report that
# finished generating successfully.
most_recent_report = None
if response['reports']:
  for report in response['reports']:
    if report['metadata']['status']['state'] == 'DONE':
      most_recent_report = report
      break
else:
  print('No reports exist for query Id %s.' % query_id)

# Download report file of most recent finished report found.
if most_recent_report != None:
  # Retrieve GCS URL from report object.
  report_url = most_recent_report['metadata']['googleCloudStoragePath']

  # Build filename.
  output_file = '%s_%s.csv' % (report['key']['queryId'], report['key']['reportId'])

  # Download the report file.
  with open(output_file, 'wb') as output:
    with closing(urlopen(report_url)) as url:
      output.write(url.read())
  print('Download of file %s complete.' % output_file)
else:
  print('There are no completed report files to download for query Id %s.' % query_id)

PHP

$queryId = query-id;

// Call the API, listing the reports under the given queryId from most to
// least recent.
$optParams = array('orderBy' => "key.reportId desc");
$response = $service->queries_reports->listQueriesReports($queryId, $optParams);

// Iterate over returned reports, stopping once finding a report that
// finished generating successfully.
$mostRecentReport = null;
if (!empty($response->getReports())) {
  foreach ($response->getReports() as $report) {
    if ($report->metadata->status->state == "DONE") {
      $mostRecentReport = $report;
      break;
    }
  }
} else {
  printf('<p>No reports exist for query ID %s.</p>', $queryId);
}

// Download report file of most recent finished report found.
if ($mostRecentReport != null) {
  // Build filename.
  $filename = $mostRecentReport->key->queryId . '_' . $mostRecentReport->key->reportId . '.csv';

  // Download the report file.
  file_put_contents($filename, fopen($mostRecentReport->metadata->googleCloudStoragePath, 'r'));
  printf('<p>Download of file %s complete.</p>', $filename);
} else {
  printf('<p>There are no completed report files to download for query Id %s.</p>', $queryId);
}