A Google Groups thread has reports from several Google AdWords API users that Google’s report download feature is having some issues.

In short, if you use the API to download reports, you may be having issues. Minutes after issuing the request for a report, they are able to be fetched from getGzipReportDownloadUrl. Now, API users are reporting that the getGzipReportDownloadUrl is resolving to a “URL not found” error.

Jeff Posnick from the AdWords API Team said he knows the URLs do expire, but not that soon.

Many API users are having this issue and it is likely on Google’s side. One user said:

Jeff Posnick from the AdWords API Team said he has filed a bug in the system. But he has not given advertisers an estimated time of when it will be fixed.

Forum discussion at Google Groups.

This post was written earlier and scheduled for publication on September 30, 2008.