How to retrieve Adwords accounts under an MCC account using CustomerService?

[Stijn van Lieshout]

I am building an Adwords application with oAuth 2.0 authentication in python. 

I'm able to retrieve all Adwords accounts associated with a google account using the get_accounts function below. But now I would like to drill down deeper into the account hierarchy if an account canManageClients (read: mcc account). 

I've already had a look at the Get account hierarchy under the current account but there ManagedCustomerService is used whereas I don't manage these accounts and am using CustomerService instead. 

How to retrieve Adwords accounts under an MCC account using CustomerService?

How I am currently retrieving accounts:

from googleads import adwords

def get_accounts(client):
    customer_service = client.GetService('CustomerService', version='v201806')  
    selector = {
        'fields': ['customerId', 'descriptiveName', 'canManageClients']
    }
    accounts = customer_service.getCustomers(selector)

    result = []
    for account in accounts:
        customerId = account['customerId']
        name = account['descriptiveName']
        canManageClients = account['canManageClients']
        if canManageClients:
            # How to retrieve all accounts under MCC account here?
        result.append({"id": customerId, "name": name, "canManageClients": canManageClients})
    return result

[Peter Oliquino (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Stijn,

The CustomerService is a service used only to retrieve account specific information. If what you wish is to retrieve information on accounts under a specific hierarchy, you will need to use the ManagedCustomerService instead. You may note that the CanManageClients field is also supported in the ManagedCustomer object of the ManagedCustomerService.

I hope this helps and feel free to write back if you need further information.

Thanks and regards,

Peter

AdWords API Team

[Stijn van Lieshout]

Gotcha. I got the definition to work now by using the ManagedCustomerService. Thanks!