Sem4r is a ruby library to access google adwords api, that works with ruby 1.9 and 1.8.

The Google AdWords Api (code.google.com/apis/adwords/) is a webservice soap protocol. From the official site:

The Google AdWords API lets developers build applications that interact directly
with the AdWords platform. With these applications, advertisers and third
parties can more efficiently and creatively manage their large or complex
AdWords accounts and campaigns.

The official google adwords ruby library adwords4r doesn’t work with ruby 1.9, because uses soap4r. The soap4r is not supported by ruby 1.9. Sem4r don’t uses soap4r.

Main idea is to use a high level model instead of a low level api. You think about clients, campaigns, keywords and not about operations, operands, service calls. In the future, the library might decide which api use (sync or async) and when call it!

To access adwords api you need:

- email account  (for sandbox environment a gmail account <myaccount>@gmail.com)
- password       
- developer token (for sandbox environment is like <myaccount>@gmail.com++EUR)

To access the sandbox environment

adwords = Adwords.sandbox( :email => "<myaccount>@gmail.com", :password => "secret", :developer_token => "<myaccount>@gmail.com++EUR")

To print details about the current account:

adwords.account.p_info

You can list all client accounts:

adwords.account.p_clients

See directory examples_sem4r for more examples. Follow the sem4r.com feed for announcements of new releases.

Sem4r last gem was tested on following rubies:

• 1.9.2-p0 - linux (works)

• jruby 1.5.5 - linux (some example are not working, certificate verify failed OpenSSL in sandbox)

• …

sudo gem install sem4r

• CampaignService: …

• CampaignTargetService: …

• AdGroupService: …

• AdGroupAdService: …

• CampaignAdExtensionService: …

• AdExtensionOverrideService: …

• CampaignCriterionService: …

• AdGroupCriterionService: …

• AdParamService: …

• UserListService: …

• BidLandscapeService: …

• ReportDefinitionService

• TargetingIdeaService

• TrafficEstimatorService

• AlertService

• CustomerSyncService

• InfoService

• ServicedAccountService

• BulkMutateJobService

• GeoLocationService

• MediaService

…

So you want your prefered service supported by sem4r. Great! Please follow this steps:

• Fork the project

• Clone down your fork

• Create a topic branch to contain your change ( git checkout -b my_awesome_feature )

• Hack away, add tests. Not necessarily in that order.

• Make sure rspec tests passes by running rake

• Add an example of use of the new feature or service.

• Make sure all examples run without errors. This will take some time. ( rake sem4r:examples )

• If necessary, rebase your commits.

• Push the branch up ( git push origin my_awesome_feature )

• Send a pull request

If I miss someone send me a note.

• Glenn Gillen

To see all contributors execute: git shortlog -n -s –no-merges

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