getting customerId from CustomerService API call

skunkwerk

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Feb 14, 2015, 5:38:59 PM2/14/15

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Hi,

I have an adwords user's oauth credentials, and I'm able to successfully make a call to download a report, but I had to hard-code in the customerId as I couldn't figure out how to get it.

The get() method of the CustomerService should return the customer ID, but what are the parameters to pass to it?

I tried a GET request to this URL:

https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201409

without any header params or body params, to which it returns "<html><body>No service was found.</body></html>".

I also tried with an Authorization and developerToken defined in the headers, but got the same response.

I also tried the python library, and defined an instance of AdWordsClient, but it's client_customer_id ends up as None.

thanks for the help,

imran

Danial Klimkin

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Feb 16, 2015, 9:47:01 AM2/16/15

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Hello imran,

The CustomerService.get method has no parameters:

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/CustomerService#get

Are you using any of our client libraries?

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

skunkwerk

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Feb 16, 2015, 9:29:38 PM2/16/15

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thanks for the reply Danial,

I managed to get it working by searching the github repo of the python client for 'CustomerService', as I couldn't find it in the documentation.

Here's what worked:

adwords_client = AdWordsClient(environ.get('ADWORDS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN'), oauth_client, user_agent='your_user_agent_here')

customer = adwords_client.GetService('CustomerService').get()

customer_id = customer['customerId']

regards,

imran

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