Auth issue with service account

[Arnold]

Hello,

I'm trying to authenticate to the Google Ads API with a service account.

But I have this error:

 errors {
  error_code {
    authentication_error: NOT_ADS_USER
  }
  message: "User in the cookie is not a valid Ads user."


I followed these steps :

- Get a dev token and create a test account
- Use php google library
- Create service account (get the JSON file)
- Delegate domain-wide authority with scope (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords)

The user who had generated the dev token is an admin in our google ads account.

As soon as I try to make a request with the production or test customer id I get this error.

Thanks for your help.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Arnold,

Thank you for reaching out.

The NOT_ADS_USER usually indicates that the OAuth2 credentials being used to authenticate your API requests were generated by a user / email address that is not associated to any Google Ads account. That being said, could you confirm whether the last item in this prerequisites section was also met by your current setup?

• A Google Ads user with permissions on the Google Ads account you want to access. Google Ads does not support using service accounts without impersonation.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Google Ads API Team

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[Arnold]

Unfortunately it doesn't works and the OAuth2 credentials were generated by our Google Ads account admin : (

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Arnold,

Could you turn on logging with log level set to 'DEBUG' and send us privately a log of an API call that returns this error, combined with a copy of your google_ads_php.ini file or configuration setup?

Regards,

Aryeh Google Ads API Team

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