Re: 403 Forbidden error with message "User does not have an AdSense account."

[Jose Alcérreca (AdSense API Team)]

Hey Dan!

Before starting to code, make sure you're using the correct account. Go into incognito mode and use the APIs explorer:

https://developers.google.com/adsense/management/v1.2/reference/accounts/adclients/list

Authenticate and try to fetch your ad clients. If you do have an AdSense account you should have no problems.

(AdSense account != developer account)

Cheers,

Jose

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Jose Alcérreca

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On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:13:00 UTC, ysm...@yahoo.com wrote:

I am trying to use AdSenseSample.java to call the java API to authenticate and download account data through an installed application.

 

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/source/browse/adsense-cmdline-sample/src/main/java/com/google/api/services/samples/adsense/cmdline/AdSenseSample.java?repo=samples

 

I have obtained an authentication code and exchanged it for an Auth/Refresh token and have setup files client_secrets.json and adsense.json

It appears that I am getting past the authentication step OK

 

AdSense adsense = initializeAdsense();

 

But receiving an error when calling

 

Accounts accounts = GetAllAccounts.run(adsense, MAX_LIST_PAGE_SIZE);

 

=================================================================
Listing all AdSense accounts
=================================================================
403 Forbidden
{
  "code" : 403,
  "errors" : [ {
    "domain" : "global",
    "message" : "User does not have an AdSense account.",
    "reason" : "noAdSenseAccount"
  } ],
  "message" : "User does not have an AdSense account."
}

 

Can you suggest next steps to figure out whyI can't get account and adclient data?

 

Thanks,

-Dan

 

[Jose Alcérreca (AdSense API Team)]

Great! I'll use code to explain things more often in the future :)

Cheers,

Jose

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Jose Alcérreca

Developer Relations

Google UK Limited

Registered Office: Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9TQ

Registered in England Number: 3977902

Google Inc.| Developer Relations | AdSense API Team | developers.google.com/adsense

On Thursday, 7 March 2013 18:45:05 UTC, ysm...@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks Jose! 

 

The tip:  AdSense account != developer account   ....  led me to a breakthrough and progress today.   I repeated my authentication steps using a different account used as a developer account, granted access in the AdSense account to this developer account and now I can download stats from the AdSense account.

 

Thanks again,

-Dan