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

This weekend we experienced a small problem on one of our hard working data crunching servers. Unfortunately this resulted in delayed data.

The problem has been fixed and all the queued up data is being processed right now. We do however expect caching up will take several hours, before we are back at showing live data.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by this.

Update: We expect getting up to speed will take the remainder of today. During today Headlight might run a bit slow as a lot of data is coming in.

Today between 1pm GMT and 6pm GMT, some customers experienced delays in click, conversion and page view data. This was due to a little problem in our server farm, which was fixed at 6pm GMT. Because of the delay, our servers are working very hard to catch up, and this can cause longer load times in when using Headlight reporting interface.

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

The next upload of fixes and features will happen this friday (11. january 2008) at 7 am GMT. During this timespan Headlight will be offline, and closed for login. Headlight will be back online when we finish maintenance work at 7.30 am GMT.

– UPDATE 7.14 am GMT –
Upload complete. You can now login to Headlight again.

Tomorrow morning (4th of January 2008) at 7 am GMT, Headlight reporting interface will be closed for login due to maintenance work.

This will not affect data quality or tracking in any way, and we expect the interface to be online again at 7.30 am GMT.

– UPDATE 7.30 –
Update complete. Headlight is back online.