API use for customer-account

31 views

Skip to first unread message

Sarah

unread,

Jun 24, 2019, 11:44:44 AM6/24/19

to AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum

Hi,

is there another possibility to access a Google Ads customer-account through the API instead of connecting my administration-account with the customer-account?

Maybe like: The customer gives me his clientId and clientSecret and maybe developerToken? And I can put these values in my ads.properties-file. The refreshToken I can create maybe?

Thanks a lot.

Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod

unread,

Jun 24, 2019, 5:38:45 PM6/24/19

to adwor...@googlegroups.com

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for reaching support. The customer(customer-account) can make the API calls using the OAuth credentials from a manager account and accessing a related administrator-account. With regards to your concern, you should generate the credentials for administrator-account and share it with customer-account if you don’t want your account to be linked. The customer-account can use either developer token or your developer token to make the API calls. Please note, it is not recommended to share developer token unless they are making API calls against your account. Also, the operations you are performing in the API call will be counted towards to the Developer token used in the API call.

Regards,
Nikisha Patel, Google Ads API Team