Google Ads API Refresh Token Issue

[Venkata Girish P]

Hi All,

I'm trying to use Python version and in the config yaml file, I entered - developer token, client id, client secret & refresh token, but while trying to execute the below code I'm getting the error message attached for your reference.

PFB error message:

RefreshError: ('unauthorized_client: Unauthorized', '{\n  "error": "unauthorized_client",\n  "error_description": "Unauthorized"\n}')

What is going wrong? Should I authorize the project by verifying the ownership through Google Tag Managar / other methods? Is that the reason or is there any other reason?

Please let me know if you have any questions

Regards,

Girish.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Venkata,

Thank you for reaching out. That error usually occurs when there's an issue with your OAuth credentials. Please make sure you have generated them with an email address that has access to your account. I would recommend re-generating your OAuth credentials as explained in this guide and seeing if that solves the issue.

If you are still receiving that error, please share the email address you used to generate the credentials as well as your yaml file via Reply privately to author so that I can further investigate the issue.

Regards,
Mitchell
Google Ads API Team

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[Venkata Girish P]

Hello Mitchell,

thanks for the response. I am trying to access Google Ads API Beta and not Adwords API. I would like to access the 'Recommendations' data particularly.  Please help me get started. 

• Do I need to generate refresh tokens even for this Google Ads API? 
• Account: venkata...@simplilearn.net
• Project Name: Google-Ads-Python-V1
• Created Credentials (Client id & Client secret)

and then stuck here. I request you to help me in setting up the environment as quickly as possible and please let me know in case if you need more information.

Regards,

Girish.

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Girish PV,

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[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Venkata,

Yes, you have to generate the refresh token for Google Ads API as well. You can follow the instructions here for setting up the Python client library. Specifically, the section "Setting up the client library" goes over how to get your refresh token. If you are still having issues, please feel free to share the email address you used to generate the credentials as well as your yaml file via Reply privately to author so that I can further investigate the issue.