Getting Search Volume with Google Adwords API (TargetingIdeaService) - old Java library

Google provides an API to get AdWords data, but there is a little amount of examples of its usage. I'll show you simple example how to get demand (search volume) data for specific words using TargetingIdeaService. This is example of old library, see the example of usage the new library.

Here is the example:

package loader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.rpc.ServiceException;

import common.Constants;

import com.google.api.adwords.lib.AdWordsService;
import com.google.api.adwords.lib.AdWordsUser;
import com.google.api.adwords.lib.AuthToken;
import com.google.api.adwords.lib.AuthTokenException;
import com.google.api.adwords.lib.utils.MapUtils;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.cm.Language;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.cm.Location;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.cm.Paging;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.Attribute;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.AttributeType;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.IdeaType;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.LanguageSearchParameter;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.LocationSearchParameter;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.LongAttribute;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.RelatedToQuerySearchParameter;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.RequestType;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.SearchParameter;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.StringAttribute;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.TargetingIdea;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.TargetingIdeaPage;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.TargetingIdeaSelector;
import com.google.api.adwords.v201209.o.TargetingIdeaServiceInterface;

public class GoogleAdwordsClient {


    private static AdWordsUser getAdWordsUser() {
        try {
            AdWordsUser user = new AdWordsUser(Constants.ADWORDS_USER, Constants.ADWORDS_PASSWORD, null, null,
                    LoaderConstants.ADWORDS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN, false);
            if (user.getRegisteredAuthToken() == null) {
                user.setAuthToken(new AuthToken(user.getEmail(), user.getPassword()).getAuthToken());
            }
            return user;
        } catch (AuthTokenException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    private static String[] getKeywords() {
        //some logic to return array of keywords
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) throws ServiceException, IOException {
        String[] keywords = getKeywords();
        AdWordsUser user = getAdWordsUser();

        TargetingIdeaServiceInterface targetingIdeaService = user
                .getService(AdWordsService.V201209.TARGETING_IDEA_SERVICE);

        TargetingIdeaSelector selector = new TargetingIdeaSelector();
       
       
        selector.setRequestType(RequestType.STATS);
        selector.setIdeaType(IdeaType.KEYWORD);

        selector.setRequestedAttributeTypes(new AttributeType[] {
                AttributeType.KEYWORD_TEXT,
                AttributeType.SEARCH_VOLUME,
        });

        Language language = new Language();
        language.setId(1000L);

        // Countrycodes
        // http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/countrycodes.html
        Location location = new Location();
        location.setId(2840L);

        RelatedToQuerySearchParameter relatedToQuerySearchParameter = new RelatedToQuerySearchParameter();
        relatedToQuerySearchParameter.setQueries(keywords);
       

        LocationSearchParameter locationSearchParameter = new LocationSearchParameter();
        locationSearchParameter.setLocations(new Location[]{location});
       
        LanguageSearchParameter languageSearchParameter = new LanguageSearchParameter();
        languageSearchParameter.setLanguages(new Language[]{language});
       
        selector.setSearchParameters(new SearchParameter[] { relatedToQuerySearchParameter
                , locationSearchParameter, languageSearchParameter //if not provided locationSearchParameter, languageSearchParameter then result is global
                });

        selector.setLocaleCode("US");

        Paging paging = new Paging();
        paging.setStartIndex(0);
        paging.setNumberResults(keywords.length);
        selector.setPaging(paging);

        TargetingIdeaPage page = targetingIdeaService.get(selector);
        if (page.getEntries() != null && page.getEntries().length > 0) {
            for (TargetingIdea targetingIdea : page.getEntries()) {
                Map<AttributeType, Attribute> data = MapUtils.toMap(targetingIdea.getData());
                String kwd = ((StringAttribute) data.get(AttributeType.KEYWORD_TEXT)).getValue();
                Long monthlySearches = ((LongAttribute) data.get(AttributeType.SEARCH_VOLUME)).getValue();
                
                System.out.println(kwd + ": " + monthlySearches);
            }
        }
    }
}