Confusing documentation and I am lost

[Harshad GoogleAds]

Hi Team,

I am trying to make my first API call, and looks like google ads API hates me

I am following Quick Start steps on following page:

https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/first-call/get-client-lib

There two steps which looks identical to me 

3. Client Library

6. OAuth Client Library

Are they one and the same or am I missing anything. 

[Steven Horton]

This confused me as well, because the naming is unconventional. #3 links to the language-specific documentation on github, while #6 has language specific information as well. 

For the language we're using, PHP, a lot of the information on the github readme.md, linked to by #3 is also on #6.

[Harshad GoogleAds]

Yaa, True that.  

Maybe they want to test our comprehension skills.

BTW have figured out the way get reports in excel, I am stuck there. It would be great if could send a sample code

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Harshad,

Thanks for reaching out. To clarify, the Client Library section provides links to downloadable client libraries for you to use while the OAuth Client Library section provides details on how to configure it for API usage. 

I can see that you are now having issues with getting reports in excel. Can you elaborate on the specific issue you are facing so that I can further assist you?

Regards,

Danica Google Ads API Team

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[Harshad GoogleAds]

I would like to understand how to get output in CSV using python. Do we have any examples for that? 

I found one example but that's in Ruby. Do we have similar examples using python? 

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Harshad,

As mentioned in the documentation here, the API does not support formatting or file output. Unfortunately, we do not have a Python example for how to implement CSV formatting for reports, so you will have to use the Ruby example here as a reference to try and implement it on your end.