403 Request had insufficient authentication scopes

Wang Fred

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Apr 14, 2023, 4:31:25 AM4/14/23

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I followed the instructions to create the client ID, client secret, and get the refresh token and put them in the yaml file. Then execute the script to get the keyword idea, which results in an error. How can I solve it?

google.api_core.exceptions.PermissionDenied: 403 Request had insufficient authentication scopes. [reason: "ACCESS_TOKEN_SCOPE_INSUFFICIENT"
domain: "googleapis.com"
metadata {
key: "service"
value: "googleads.googleapis.com"
}
metadata {
key: "method"
value: "google.ads.googleads.v13.services.KeywordPlanIdeaService.GenerateKeywordIdeas"
}
]

I'm still new to Python, thank you for help.

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Apr 14, 2023, 8:00:28 AM4/14/23

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Hi,

Thank you for raising this issue to the Google Ads API support team.

Regarding the error you are encountering, I would suggest referring and seeing the below guides. Please make sure that the below guides were followed in order to avoid the said error.

Also, our guide for the Google Ads API scope (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/oauth/internals#scope).

Let us know how it goes on your end.

Regards,

Google Ads API Team