How to pull individual reports for each account within an MCC

[Stephen]

Hi I'm new to the Adwords API. Using Python library to pull Keywords performance report.

Works fine when my client_customer_id in YAML file is set to an account id but when I set it to an MCC client id it throws this error:

googleads.errors.AdWordsReportBadRequestError: Type: ReportDefinitionError.CUSTOMER_SERVING_TYPE_REPORT_MISMATCH
Trigger: None
Field Path: selector

So I understand that I have to inform it that it is an MCC id and to extract the child Id's within and iterate through them I just don't know how to do that :(

I can't seem to find a clear example online of this. Can anyone help?

Thanks

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[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

To get the list of accounts under the MCC, see the get_account_hierarchy.py example. Once you have that list, between each reporting request you can update the customer ID of your AdWordsClient using the mechanism described here.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

[Stephen]

Hi thanks Josh. Grabbing the account Id's is fine but setting customer ID with:

adwords_client = AdWordsClient.LoadFromStorage()
adwords_client.SetClientCustomerId('my_client_customer_id')

Is returning the error:

AttributeError: 'AdWordsClient' object has no attribute 'SetClientCustomerId'

Do you understand what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Stephen

[Stephen]

Issue solved. In case anyone has this problem do the following:

adwords_client.client_customer_id = 'my_client_customer_id'

where 'my_client_customer_id' is a string of your client customer id.

Thanks