Using the REST API and customer match

[Tim]

Hello all, 

We are currently using the Google adwords api for customer match to upload customer IDs to userLists. We are currently in the process of migrating this and are using the REST API directly instead of the library.

We need to be able to do three things:

1. Get user lists --> https://googleads.googleapis.com/v9/customers/<userlistId>

2. Create user lists --> https://googleads.googleapis.com/v9/customers/<customer id>/userLists:mutate 3. add users to the userList --> https://googleads.googleapis.com/v9/customers/<customerid>:uploadUserData We just have.a development token and do get 200 status codes back, however since its a test account you cannot actually use customer match. since the user lists get automatically closed. I am wondering how some of you manage /develop the integration with customer match, how do you ensure it works without seeing the result in the ads interface.

best,

Tim

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for reaching out. As you mentioned, user lists are not supported in test accounts. You can use the validateOnly field to test Customer Match operations. Setting this field to true will validate the request, but not execute it. Any errors in your request will be highlighted. 

Please let us know if you have any other questions on this.

Regards,
Matt
Google Ads API Team

Matt Google Ads API Team

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[Ryszard Rogalski]

I can't believe that user lists are not support in test accounts.
So you don't want to give developer token on production accounts, but we can't test it on test accounts?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Ryszard,

Thanks for posting your comment on this forum thread.

Customer Match and other user lists cannot be used in test accounts because in a test account, any Customer user lists will be automatically set to Closed. However, in uploading to a test account we can verify that metadata, transaction details and UserData types can be sent successfully. Once this looks OK, then you may go with the uploading to a production account using production data your customer match supplies.

With regards to your concern of applying production developer token, I suggest you reach out to the API Compliance Team via this form. This is because matters related to the granting and approval process of these tokens are already outside of the scope of our API support team.

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Yasar Google Ads API Team

 

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