Access Level for API

[Jonathan Wu]

We see that the Access Level names have changed and there is now no mention of API access in any of the descriptions. What is the minimum Access level we would need to have API access? Is Standard enough? or do we need MCC access?

[Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

We haven't changed the names for access levels. 

There's been Basic and Standard access levels since it was introduced. (http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.jp/2013/01/new-simplified-adwords-api-pricing.html)

Currently minimum is Basic access, with that access you can make 10,000 operations per day. 

With Standard access, how many operations you can make a day is not restricted. 

I'm not sure what MCC access means here.

Best,

- Takeshi, 

[Jonathan Wu]

This is not the access I was asking about. I'm talking about user Access level. Before, our MCC account had a user Access Level on our client accounts that was called UI and API access. Now that access level no longer exists. When we work with new clients, we have to advise them what user access level they need to provide us in order for us to service them. What minimum user access level should our MCC account have on our client's account in order to have API access?

Regards,

Jonathan Wu

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[Jonathan Wu]

This is the access level I am talking about: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?hl=en

The access level's on that page used to include something called UI and API access. That is no longer listed. After testing, we now have API access for a client that set our user access to READ-ONLY. This didn't work before. We just need a clear statement that API access is now directly tied to user access level and, if possible, documentation about it. This is so that, going forward, we can tell clients the minimum user access we need to service them.

Thanks,

Jon

On Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:43:42 AM UTC-7, Jonathan Wu wrote:

This is not the access I was asking about. I'm talking about user Access level. Before, our MCC account had a user Access Level on our client accounts that was called UI and API access. Now that access level no longer exists. When we work with new clients, we have to advise them what user access level they need to provide us in order for us to service them. What minimum user access level should our MCC account have on our client's account in order to have API access?

Regards,

Jonathan Wu

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team) <adwordsapiadvisor+takeshi@google.com> wrote:

Hi,

We haven't changed the names for access levels. 

There's been Basic and Standard access levels since it was introduced. (http://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.jp/2013/01/new-simplified-adwords-api-pricing.html)

Currently minimum is Basic access, with that access you can make 10,000 operations per day. 

With Standard access, how many operations you can make a day is not restricted. 

I'm not sure what MCC access means here.

Best,

- Takeshi, 

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:41:52 AM UTC+9, Jonathan Wu wrote:

We see that the Access Level names have changed and there is now no mention of API access in any of the descriptions. What is the minimum Access level we would need to have API access? Is Standard enough? or do we need MCC access?

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[Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Jonathan,

Apologies for the delayed response. It was buried. 

What Kevin said in that thread is still true. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/adwords-api/B0VVHqNOLYs/C0sTKzJF2uYJ

We don't have read-only API access level yet. 

You can emulate it by using a read-only AdWords account. 

Best,

- Takeshi, AdWords API Team

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[Jonathan Wu]

Takeshi, 

That is very weird. Through my own testing, I achieved read-only access. I basically linked my email account to my companies Adwords account and tried some api operations. 

With my account set to Standard access, I was able to use the API to pull ads from a test campaign and then pause some to of the ads. 

When I set my account to read-only access, I could still use the API to get the ads from the test campaign, but when I tried to use the api to pause the ads, I would get a "forbidden" error code. The change in user access took a few minutes to propagate, but once it changed, I could consistently perform get operations but not mutate operations. 

Wondering if someone over there changed something in the infrastructure without updating the API team?

-Jonathan

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Jonathan,

Allow me to clarify what Takeshi said - we don't have ANY AdWords API specific permissions. AdWords API follows whatever permissions you set on your AdWords account. So if you link your AdWords account under an MCC, then the MCC will have access to the client account. The level of access depends on the access you have given that login email on the UI. If it is readonly, you can run only reports. If you provide standard access, you can mutate objects as well.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,

AdWords API Advisor.

[Jonathan Wu]

I see. Thanks for your help Anash.

Regards,

Jonathan Wu

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[marco....@iprospect.com]

Hello, I have a question: do both Basic and Standard have reading permissions? So, through API access, a third party provider can read and potentially download data?

Thanks

M

[Thanet Knack Praneenararat (AdWords API Team)]

Hi M,

As Anash pointed out above, AdWords API follows whatever permissions you set on your AdWords account.

If you set the permission to allow third party provider to read your data, e.g., allowing its MCC account to add yours as a child account, 

then it can read your data freely regardless of what it is of basic or standard type of API access.

The basic and standard types are rather related to the API usage.

The standard type has no limitations of 10,000 operations per day, as the basic type does.

Please refer to this page for more information.

Cheers,

Thanet