Adsense Script - Financial

Monitor Adsense Financial account activity and receive email updates.

I created this adsense monitor because I wanted a way to automatically track my contextual advertising account activity.  My current contextual advertiser is Google AdSense (great program!) so the utility is designed around AdSense.

This utility will log into your adsense account, retrieve your stats and write them to a database.  I have made this open source so you can personally examine the source.  The adsense monitor resides on your computer and communicates only with Google.  It is well documented, easy to understand and does not violate your adsense TOS.  

I contacted Google and asked if they would have a problem with publishing the adsense tracking utility.  They stated that as long as you do not set the monitor to log in every 5 minutes, publishing it would not be a problem.  The default is set to update your adsense database every 30 minutes.  I found there is at least 30 minutes between updates, so changing the default would probably not benefit you.

We are constantly updating this utility, so check back often.   When Google changes their layout, I adjust the adsense monitor so it keeps working.   If you want to receive an update when this happens, drop me an email and ask to be added to the adsense monitor update list.

The following files are included in the AdenseMonitor.zip file:

Changes.txt - Change log
ReadMe.txt - Documentation
OSSMTP.dll - For email updates

* Download the zip file, then extract it to a folder. Also copy the code at the bottom of this paragraph, paste it into notepade, then save it as adsense.vbs Some systems show an empty zip if you open it from a web page.

In a nutshell, you simply change the database path and enter your adsense username and password.

NOTICE: There is no benefit to running the job at intervals of less than 30 minutes.   If you want intervals of less than 15 minutes, I suggest you check with Google first.

Track Adsense Clicks! Find out who clicked on your ad and when.

AdSense Report Creator creates a HTML report from the database created by adsense.vbs.   Each report file is named MMDDYY.htm, so you have a report for each day.

Shailesh Humbad's Adsense Database Viewer

The default scripting engine for Windows 2000 is Wscript. If you use Cscript, you will not be prompted when an error occurs.

To change the default, type:

cscript //h:cscript //s

Typing cscript /? generates:

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.1 for Windows
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-1999. All rights reserved.

Usage: CScript scriptname.extension [option...] [arguments...]

Options:
 //B         Batch mode: Suppresses script errors and prompts from
             displaying
 //D         Enable Active Debugging
 //E:engine  Use engine for executing script
 //H:CScript Changes the default script host to CScript.exe
 //H:WScript Changes the default script host to WScript.exe (default)
 //I         Interactive mode (default, opposite of //B)
 //Job:xxxx  Execute a WS job
 //Logo      Display logo (default)
 //Nologo    Prevent logo display: No banner will be shown at 
             execution time
 //S         Save current command line options for this user
 //T:nn      Time out in seconds:  Maximum time a script is permitted 
             to run
 //X         Execute script in debugger
 //U         Use Unicode for redirected I/O from the console

Disclaimer:   I am not responsible, implied or otherwise, for any damage resulting from use of this utility.   Use at your own risk.