Introduction

Google Ads is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers pay to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, video content, and generate mobile application installs within the Google ad network to web users. Google Ads single report source plugin would allow users to retrieve the specified report type from their Google Ads account in batch mode.

User Expectations

User would like to get the specified Google Ads report type that can be transformed (if needed) with CDAP
User do need to specify report format and type while setting up the configuration
User should be able to use advanced options available in Google Ads API such as skip report header

Plugin Type

Batch Source
Batch Sink
Real-time Source
Real-time Sink
Action
Post-Run Action
Aggregate
Join
Spark Model
Spark Compute

User Configurations

Option Level	User Configuration Label	Label Description	Variable	User Widget	Default Value	Notes
Basic	Report type	Google Ads report type to retrieve	reportType	Drop Down		This would include both pre-built report types as well as the report types available from Google. https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports
	Refresh token	Authorization to download the report	refreshToken	Text Box		https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting#prepare_the_request https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/authentication
	Client ID	OAuth 2.0 client ID from https://console.developers.google.com	clientId	Text Box		https://console.developers.google.com
	Client Secret	OAuth 2.0 client Secret from https://console.developers.google.com	clientSecret	Text Box		https://console.developers.google.com
	Developer token	Developer token consisting of unique string	developerToken	Text Box
	Customer ID	Customer ID of the client account	clientCustomerId	Text Box
	Start Date	Start date for the report data	startDate	Text Box		Should allow to choose "today" as an option
	End Date	End date for the report data	endDate	Text Box		Should allow few standard options such as last 30, 60 and 90 days
Advanced	Include Report Summary	If false, report output will not include a summary row containing the report totals	includeReportSummary	Toggle	True
	Use Raw Enum Values	Set to true if you want the returned format to be the actual enum value	useRawEnumValues	Toggle	False
	Include Zero Impressions	If true, report output will include rows where all specified metric fields are zero,	includeZeroImpressions	Toggle	False
	Fields	List of fields to pull	reportFields	multi-select		https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/all-reports

Design / Implementation Tips

Plugin will be implemented using official googleads-java-lib, Output schema must be automatically generated from selected fields and report type.

Pipeline Example:

References

Google Ads reporting basics - https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/reporting
Google Ads reports - https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/reports/all-reports