Adwords Access for a Developer

[Chris Davenport-Smith]

Hi all,

I can't find a definitive answer on here - sorry if it's been answered elsewhere?

We manage an MCC full of child accounts for a particular client, and they have employed a third party company who have a custom reporting suite to analyse all advertising streams. 

The third party company has requested full MCC access to the client's accounts in order to set up an API to pull Adwords data into their reporting suite.

Is this correct? Do they need full MCC access in order to do this?

We used to provide them with the API feed that we had created so that they could populate their tool - but as they were unwilling to tell us what format they needed it in, they have taken responsibility for creating the API feed themselves.

What are the steps needed here please so that they can create and manage the API feed themselves?

Thanks,

Chris

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Chris,

We can't provide details for the extraction approach as this is something you need to discuss with the service provider.

One option could be is to grant them read-only access. It is still access to all accounts under the MCC but without power to make any changes.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.