INVALID_TIME_WINDOW: 'The end_time can be a maximum of 7.days+1.hours after the start_time

[arammaliachi]

The example provided at examples/active_entities.py does not work as is.

If I run it as is I am told by the inline documentation of the file that I am pulling active entities for the last day. If I examine the dict returned I see that the activity_start_time and activity_end_time do not match anything at all the 'last day'.
This is causing the end call to analytics to fail because some active entities activity_start_time and activity_end_time ranges are greater than 7 days (as calculated by the date_range function) even though I'm supposedly querying for only the last day.

Why am I getting active entities outside the last day range at all?

e.g.

if I run the script as is today 2020-06-03 I get the following active entities:

{'entity_id': 'hbvri', 'activity_start_time': '2020-05-27T23:48:58Z', 'activity_end_time': '2020-06-02T17:24:58Z', 'placements': ['ALL_ON_TWITTER']}
{'entity_id': 'hc53a', 'activity_start_time': '2020-05-27T21:21:03Z', 'activity_end_time': '2020-05-28T03:27:57Z', 'placements': ['ALL_ON_TWITTER']}
{'entity_id': 'h8nt6', 'activity_start_time': '2020-05-23T15:39:18Z', 'activity_end_time': '2020-05-23T23:36:40Z', 'placements': ['ALL_ON_TWITTER']}
{'entity_id': 'h7a76', 'activity_start_time': '2020-06-01T05:56:47Z', 'activity_end_time': '2020-06-02T17:24:56Z', 'placements': ['ALL_ON_TWITTER', 'PUBLISHER_NETWORK']}

I see active entities that begin 2020-05-27 and end 2020-05-28 which is completely out of the last day range.
This is causing the range output by the date_range function to be greater than 7 days and hence all the script fails.

[arammaliachi]

@juanshishido can you advice?

[arammaliachi]

Oh I think I understand now, I think activity_start_time and activity_end_time are greedy to all activity in each ad group returned meaning its range will keep growing while the ad is active... So I guess I have to query stats per day for the resulting range on the resulting line items (ad groups).

Maybe some clarification on this on the docs...

[osowskit]

Thanks for the feedback. We recommend using the async analytics endpoints for production applications as the active range can exceed 7 days.

Maybe some clarification on this on the docs...

Do you have any suggestions?

[jojkhan]

what to do if we want to access data of lifetime or with respect to year'