general question about developer token

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Yakov Krasnov

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Feb 7, 2022, 4:59:08 AM2/7/22

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Hi there

We are building a tool for our customer which will allow them to upload (not publish) their creatives from our platform to their google ads accounts.

Now I'm trying to understand what the developer token is? Should every customer in addition to oauth provide us with this developer token too? Or should we create Google Ads manager account and all client accounts under our root account (which is insane actually).

I created manager account + test manager account, get developer token from it (all that I've done using single google account) and tried to perform simple request from examples here. But I'm getting 403 error and I can't understand what's wrong.

To get oauth token I used https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords scope as said in docs.

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Feb 7, 2022, 9:02:08 PM2/7/22

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Hello Yakov,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

In the Google Ads API's perspective, a developer token from Google lets your app connect to the Google Ads API. When creating a Manager account, it should have a test level access by default. This access level is only intended for test accounts. If you wish to connect your app in a Google Ads production account, then a Basic/Standard level access is required. You can apply for an access as mentioned on this procedure.

For any error you encounter along the way, we recommend that you share to us the complete API logs (request and response with request-id) so our team can further check. Please send the requested details via the Reply privately to author option. If this option is not available, you may send the details directly to our googleadsa...@google.com alias instead.

Regards,

Mark Kevin Albios
Google Ads API Team