Node.js support

[Gergely Nemeth]

Hello,

any advice on how can I use the Adwords API from Node.js?

Thanks a lot,

Gergely

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Gergely,

We don't officially support node.js client libraries. But you could make API calls as listed below:

1. If you don't have a developer token yet, then 

• Signup for a developer token by following the signup instructions.
• Make sure you fill up the followup form: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/newtoken/
  
• Wait for the developer token to get approved (or you could create a test account as mentioned on our developer site and start playing around with the API even when it is under review).

2. Follow the instructions on https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/authentication to create an OAuth2 clientId and clientSecret.

3. Authorize your user and generate an access token and refresh token for them using the web flow. The scope to use is listed on https://github.com/googleads/googleads-dotnet-lib/wiki/NoClientLibrary. If you are looking for the raw HTTP requests, then you could use OAuth2 playground to generate them, but I recommend using an OAuth2 library like simple-oauth2 instead.

4. Make an API request. https://github.com/googleads/googleads-dotnet-lib/wiki/NoClientLibrary has an example for retrieving campaigns and running reports using raw HTTP requests, but ideally, you should be using a SOAP library. Some information can be found on this stackoverflow thread. Our reference contains a list of all the supported services, and their WSDL endpoints.

You can refer to our client libraries for code examples. As always, ask on the forum for any questions you may have.

Cheers,

Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.

[Erik Evenson]

For what it is worth, I am the author of an unofficial node.js client library at https://www.npmjs.com/package/googleads-node-lib.  It is getting closer to a full feature set every day.  Pull requests are welcome.

Best,

Erik

[Chris Alvares]

This is an old thread, but Erik's library seemed to be abandoned, so I created a fully functional node library with management as well as reporting. It is feature complete: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-adwords