Using Management API to Access My Own Account Information

[Alex S.]

I am creating a dashboard with information about my ads so I want to pull information from the performance reports from my own account (clicks, CTR, CPM, etc.). Is the Adsense Management API right for me? If not, what options do I have? 

[galeksic]

I think it is exactly what you need for performance reports on dashboard.

service.accounts().reports().generate(
          accountId="pub-0123456701234567",
          startDate='today',
          endDate='today',
          metric=['EARNINGS','CLICKS', 'PAGE_VIEWS', 'COST_PER_CLICK', 'PAGE_VIEWS_RPM',
          'PAGE_VIEWS_CTR'],
          dimension=['AD_CLIENT_ID']).execute...

{
  "startDate": "2014-06-10",
  "kind": "adsense#report",
  "rows": [
    [
      "ca-pub-0123456701234567",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***"
    ],
    [
      "partner-pub-0123456701234567",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***",
      "***"
    ]
  ],
  "endDate": "2014-06-10",
  "totals": [
    "",
    "***",
    "***",
    "***",
    "***",
    "***",
    "***"
  ],
...
}

On dashboard on your own [local]host.

https://developers.google.com/adsense/management/libraries

https://github.com/googleads/googleads-adsense-examples/tree/master/php-clientlib-1.x/v1.x/examples

Or integrated / extended with other Google services.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/adsense

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/adsense_scheduled_reports_tutorial

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/adsense_tutorial

If you need only reporting (and you prefer / need SQL), BigQuery is another option.

https://developers.google.com/adsense/bigquery

(AdSense Host API is for AdSense host partners. https://developers.google.com/adsense/host/become-a-host)

[Alex S.]

galeksic,

Thanks for those resources! Is there a way to access data from my own account and not clients through me? I don't want to have a redirect page because I just want to pull information from my own reports and I don't need any login from users, almost like a service account. 

[Jose Alcérreca (AdSense API Team)]

Hi Alex,

Using OAuth2, the developer and the user are different entities. We don't support Service Accounts but you can use the API from an automatic/unmonitored script using refresh tokens and the "offline" access type. Every client library implements this in a different way. You can start here:

https://developers.google.com/adsense/management/getting_started

Cheers,

Jose