Read before posting: AdWords API forum rules
Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
AdWords API groups rules
This Google Group is a public forum for discussing technical aspects of the AdWords API only. This means that:
For support on other products contact the relevant support alias or forum.
For non-API AdWords questions refer to the general AdWords support.
Legal, T&C or token approval questions will not be answered here.
Non-related, commercial (aka spam) and abusive content is prohibited. Please comply with Google Groups rules and local law before posting.
Make sure to do a quick search before asking a question. Also check resources and FAQ sections below. In many cases your question has been answered already and you can find a solution right away.
Avoid posting confidential information on the group, particularly developer tokens, logins, passwords, etc. When attaching logs, make sure to remove this data. You can still provide object IDs such as campaign ID, ad group ID etc. to help us investigate the issue.
Although this forum is monitored by Google Developer Relations team and we try to answer every question within a reasonable timeframe, we don’t guarantee any fixed response time.
While we try to provide help in different languages, it’s preferable to ask questions in English, as the language most API users can communicate in.
Helpful resources:
Google Ads Developers Plus page -- make sure to subscribe to the page to receive Ads announcements, including new version releases, sunsets and documentation updates.
Google Ads Developer Blog -- official Ads announcements blog.
Client libraries -- official AdWords API client libraries for Java, DotNet, Ruby, Python, Perl and PHP.
AdWords API documentation -- general API reference and guides.
AdWords API forum -- this site.
Frequently asked questions:
Tokens approval
If you have a question regarding the functionality of the AdWords API, please post on the forum. If you have a question about an ongoing application, reply directly within the existing thread between you and the Token Review team.
If you have applied for the AdWords API in the API Center of your AdWords MCC account but have not heard from us, check your Developer Contact email inbox for an email from us. If you missed our email about completing a follow-up New Token Application Form, first ensure that your developer contact email listed in the API Center of your AdWords MCC is up to date, then fill out this form and we will get back to you within 2 business days.
Terms and conditions
In order to access the AdWords API you need to sign the Terms and Conditions. You can review and accept T&C as the last step of the billing setup process. For some countries T&C has to be signed in writing.
Test Accounts
A test account is a great way to get started with the AdWords API right away. While your production developer token is pending approval you can still use it to execute AdWords API requests against test accounts. Simply create a test MCC account and one or more child accounts under the test MCC, and you can issue API requests against those child accounts with your pending production developer token.
If you have an approved token, you can use the ManagedCustomerService to check if an account is a test account by requesting the testAccount field.