(403) User does not have an AdSense account

[Roel]

Hello,

For a while I have been struggling now to get a script to communicate with a AdSense account that I own via the AdSense API.

As this is thus one single AdSense account that I own myself I decided to choose the service account authentication technique using a certificate (https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2#serviceaccount). A snipplet of the PHP code is given by:

        $client = new apiClient();
       
        $key = file_get_contents(KEY_FILE);
        $client->setClientId(CLIENT_ID);
        $client->setAssertionCredentials(new apiAssertionCredentials(
                SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME,
                array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adsense.readonly'),
                $key)
        );
       
        $service = new apiAdsenseService($client);
        $results = $service->reports->generate('2012-04-01', '2012-04-31');

I enabled the Adsense Management API, but still when I now run this script I get a response of:

(403) User does not have an AdSense account

The account using which I have created the OAuth keys is the very same account having access to the AdSense page. Thus the same e-mail address appers in the top-right corner.

What could I be doing wrong?

Best,
Roel

[Sérgio Gomes]

Hi Roel,

I'm afraid that accessing the AdSense Management API via service account authentication is not supported, since it's protected user information (and as described in the service account authentication entry in the documentation page you linked to, access to user information is not supported).

This doesn't mean that support couldn't be added in the future, but for now you'll need to stick to web-based or installed authentication for PHP.

Cheers,

Sérgio

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[Eric Haskins]

Service Accounts wont work when a User is required like in the case of AdSense.  You will need to use oAuth. Even though you have a private key etc

 

Eric Haskins

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[Andreas Osswald]

Hi,

I also had the same '(403) User does not have an AdSense account.' problem with service account authentication today. Are you planning to support this functionality one day? The web-based authentication works fine, but unfortunately it is no option in our use case.

Best regards,

Andreas

[Jose Alcérreca (AdSense API Team)]

Hi Andreas,

There is no need for Service Accounts. If you can't use "Web application", you can probably use "Installed application" (see the getting started guide). What's your specific use case?

Cheers,

Jose

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Jose Alcérreca

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[ad...@adrastea.com]

Dear Jose,

Thank you for your quick answer! I have just seen that there are "refresh tokens" which never expire and can create more "access tokens" so that there's only one manual login necessary. Nevertheless, I'm not sure if this works without a web-browser. In the use case I want to run a PHP script regularly through the crontab.

I haven't found a way yet to access the "refresh token" through the PHP library from https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client - but maybe I need to investigate it a bit further. :)

Best regards,

Andreas

[Jose Alcérreca (AdSense API Team)]

Hey Andreas,

You might be looking for the access_type. Set it to offline so that you get a refresh_token.

Check out the generic OAuth guide: https://developers.google.com/adsense/management/tutorials/oauth-generic

Cheers,

Jose

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Jose Alcérreca

Developer Relations

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Hey Jose,

Looks like as if it works! Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

Andreas

[Bastien DONJON]

Hello,

It's possible to used API AdSense Management with OAuth 2.0 for Server to Server ?

I have a server application to automatic download reports.

I don't see exemple other without user actions.

Thanks

[Dean Lukies (Adsense API Team)]

Hello,

you will need to get the token with a one-time, user interaction; after that you can use the token to do server to server.

thanks,

Dean

[Bastien DONJON]

Nice. Thanks Dean.

[Tseng Yishung]

Hello,

    I still have the same problem.

    Where can I get the one-time token?

    By the way, I use the sample code(python). It works on sample API: sqladmin, but it always fails in adsense. Respond 403 error: User does not have  an AdSense account.

    I use the same service account key, and the API test is working.

Thanks

[Dean Lukies (Adsense API Team)]

Hi,

if you follow the getting started guide it will generate the token for you; my suggestion is that you use one of the examples and, once you have it working, modify it to suit your needs.

thanks,

Dean