Category: 3 – Script Examples

Here’s a script that will alert you if and when the latest Daily Budget change by Google will cause Google to overdeliver and spend more than your daily budget.
The script will compare the anticipated ad spend based on your campaign daily budget settings with the actual ad spend.
It will check for overdelivery in any of three periods: yesterday, last week and last month.
In case of big differences (overdelivery by Google) it will report an alert, log the alert in the specified Google Sheet and inform you about the alert via email

Here’s what the output will look like:

Don’t worry if you have never run an Adwords Script before. It is fairly easy if you follow these steps on how to set up and run Adwords Scripts.

Be sure to create a new empty spreadsheet and add the url to the script. Also add your email adress. (lines 28 and 29)
You can also set the threshold variables to whatever percentage of overdelivery is acceptable to you. (lines 36 to 38)

You can schedule the script to run daily. If you do so, change the ‘firstRun’ to false (line 33).

Here are some instructions on how to install the script if you’ve never done so before.

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/**
* @overview:
* For each campaign that is NOT labeled 'noBudgetAlert' this script will compare the anticipated ad spend based on daily budget settings with the actual ad spend. 
* In case of big differences (overdelivery by Google) it will report an alert, log the alert in the specified Google Sheet and inform about the alert via email
* 
* For the MCC version please contact Nils Rooijmans [nils@nilsrooijmans.com]
*
* @author:  Nils Rooijmans [nils@nilsrooijmans.com]
* @version: 1.0
*/

// 
var SPREADSHEET_URL = "[REPLACE WITH YOUR SPREADSHEET URL]";  //insert a new blank spreadsheet url, replace everything between and including the square brackets
var EMAIL = "[REPLACE WITH YOUR EMAIL]"; //insert your email, replace everything between and including the square brackets

var CAMPAIGNLABEL = "noBudgetAlert";  //campaign level label for campaigns to ignore

var firstRun = true; // set to false if you schedule the script to run on daily basis, set to true for first run or if you run only once

// Config variables to set the percentage of overdelivery allowed before an alert is sent
var dailySpendAlertThreshold = 0.2; // alert if overdelivery is greater than 20% of daily budget
var weeklySpendAlertThreshold = 0.1; // alert if overdelivery is greater than 10% of 7 times the daily budget (for the 7 days before today)
var fourWeeklySpendAlertThreshold = 0.05; // alert if overdelivery is greater than 5% of 28 times the daily budget (for the 28 days before today)


function main() {  

  var accountAlert = false;
  var campaignAlert_dailyCheck = false;
  var campaignAlert_weeklyCheck = false;
  var campaignAlert_fourWeeklyCheck = false;
  
  var adSpendYesterday = 0;
  var adSpend1to7DaysAgo = 0;
  var adSpend1to28DaysAgo = 0;
  var differenceDailyCheck = 0;
  var differenceWeeklyCheck = 0;
  var differenceFourWeeklyCheck = 0;
  
  var d = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getTimeZone(), "MMM dd,yyyy");
  var dayOfTheWeek = new Date(d).getDay(); 
  var dayOfTheMonth = new Date(d).getDate();

  //prepare the sheet
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(SPREADSHEET_URL);
  var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
  if (sheet.getRange('A1').isBlank()) {
    sheet.appendRow([
    "Date", 
    "Account Name", 
    "Campaign Name", 
    "Ad Spend Yesterday", 
    "Anticipated Spend", 
    "Difference", 
    "Ad Spend 1 to 7 Days Ago", 
    "Anticipated Spend", 
    "Difference", 
    "Ad Spend 1 to 28 Days Ago", 
    "Anticipated Spend", 
    "Difference"
    ]);
  }
  
  // prepare contents of email
  var html = [];
  html.push(
    "<html>",
    "<body>", 
    "<p>Alerts are logged in sheet: ", SPREADSHEET_URL ,"</p>",
    "<p>----------------------------------------------------</p>",
    "<p>OVERDELIVERY ALERTS FOR:</P>",
    "<P>ACCOUNT - CAMPAIGN</p>",
    "<p>----------------------------------------------------</p>"
  );  
 
     
  // if not already created, create label used to Ignore campaigns
  // this is necessary for the script to run even if no campaign has been labeled
  var labelName;
  var labelExists = false;
  var labelIterator = AdWordsApp.labels().get();
  while (labelIterator.hasNext()) {
    labelName = labelIterator.next().getName();
    if (labelName.localeCompare(CAMPAIGNLABEL) == 0){labelExists = true; break;} else {labelExists = false}
  }
  if (labelExists == false) {
    AdWordsApp.createLabel(CAMPAIGNLABEL);
    Logger.log("labelCreated");
  } else {
    Logger.log("labelExists");
  } 
  
  
  // Let's check the campaigns for overdelivery
  Logger.log("Checking account: "+AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getName());    
  
  var campaignSelector = AdWordsApp.campaigns()
     .withCondition("LabelNames CONTAINS_NONE ['" + CAMPAIGNLABEL + "']")
     .withCondition("Status = ENABLED")
     .forDateRange("YESTERDAY");
  
  var campaignIterator = campaignSelector.get();
  
  while (campaignIterator.hasNext()) {
    var campaign = campaignIterator.next();
    Logger.log("    Checking Campaign: "+campaign.getName());

    var campaignAlert_dailyCheck = false;
    var campaignAlert_weeklyCheck = false;
    var campaignAlert_fourWeeklyCheck = false;
    
    var anticipatedDailyAdSpend = campaign.getBudget().getAmount();
    var anticipatedWeeklyAdSpend = 7 * anticipatedDailyAdSpend;
    var anticipatedFourWeeklyAdSpend = 28 * anticipatedDailyAdSpend;

    // daily check
    //Logger.log("DAILY CHECK");
    adSpendYesterday = campaign.getStatsFor("YESTERDAY").getCost();
    differenceDailyCheck = (adSpendYesterday-anticipatedDailyAdSpend)/anticipatedDailyAdSpend;
    if (differenceDailyCheck > dailySpendAlertThreshold ) {
       campaignAlert_dailyCheck = true;
       Logger.log("DAILY overdelivery spend alert");
    }
    
    // weekly check  
    if (dayOfTheWeek == 1 || firstRun){  // if not the firstRun this check runs only on mondays
      //Logger.log("WEEKLY CHECK");
      adSpend1to7DaysAgo = campaign.getStatsFor(dateBefore(7),dateBefore(1)).getCost();
      differenceWeeklyCheck = (adSpend1to7DaysAgo-anticipatedWeeklyAdSpend)/anticipatedWeeklyAdSpend;
      if (differenceWeeklyCheck > weeklySpendAlertThreshold ) {
         campaignAlert_weeklyCheck = true;
         Logger.log("WEEKLY overdelivery spend alert");
      }
    }

    // 4 weekly check
    if ((dayOfTheWeek == 1 && dayOfTheMonth < 8) || firstRun){ //if not the firstRun this check runs only on the first monday in a month //Logger.log("MONTHLY CHECK"); adSpend1to28DaysAgo = campaign.getStatsFor(dateBefore(28),dateBefore(1)).getCost(); differenceFourWeeklyCheck = (adSpend1to28DaysAgo-anticipatedFourWeeklyAdSpend)/anticipatedFourWeeklyAdSpend; if (differenceFourWeeklyCheck > fourWeeklySpendAlertThreshold) {
         campaignAlert_fourWeeklyCheck = true;
         Logger.log("4-WEEKLY overdelivery spend alert");           
      }   
    }
  
    // add alerts to sheet  
    if (campaignAlert_dailyCheck||campaignAlert_weeklyCheck||campaignAlert_fourWeeklyCheck) {

      accountAlert = true;
        
      sheet.appendRow([
        d, 
        AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getName(), 
        campaign.getName(), 
        adSpendYesterday, 
        anticipatedDailyAdSpend, 
        (differenceDailyCheck*100).toFixed(1)+"%", 
        adSpend1to7DaysAgo, 
        anticipatedWeeklyAdSpend, 
        (differenceWeeklyCheck*100).toFixed(1)+"%", 
        adSpend1to28DaysAgo, anticipatedFourWeeklyAdSpend, 
        (differenceFourWeeklyCheck*100).toFixed(1)+"%"
      ]);  
      
      Logger.log("ALERT ADDED TO SHEET");
      
      if (campaignAlert_dailyCheck) sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow(), 6).setFontColor("red");
      if (campaignAlert_weeklyCheck) sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow(), 9).setFontColor("red");
      if (campaignAlert_fourWeeklyCheck) sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow(), 12).setFontColor("red");
      
      html.push("<p>" + AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getName() + " | " + campaign.getName() + "</p>");             
    }

  if (accountAlert) { // if there is any alert for any of the campaigns , send email
    MailApp.sendEmail(EMAIL, "Overdelivery Alerts", "", {htmlBody: html.join("\n")});
  }

}
  
function dateBefore(days){ 
  var MILLIS_PER_DAY = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
  var now = new Date();
  var dateBefore = new Date(now.getTime() - days * MILLIS_PER_DAY);
  var timeZone = AdWordsApp.currentAccount().getTimeZone();
  return Utilities.formatDate(dateBefore, timeZone, 'yyyyMMdd');
}

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