The OAuth client was deleted on its own? I'm sure I didn't delete it.

[scor...@gmail.com]

Hi, I experienced a weird thing, the API Credential - OAuth 2.0 Client ID I added for our AdWords application just got deleted on it's own. I created a new set a couple days ago and it was working fine, enabling us to download AdWords reports, but then early this morning we got bombarded by this error message: Failed to refresh access token. { "error" : "deleted_client", "error_description" : "The OAuth client was deleted." }

When I checked my added credential, it was gone. I already re-created the OAuth Client ID and generated our RefreshToken for .NET so it's OK now. But I want to know what may have caused it to be deleted on its own? Is there even a remote possibility of this happening? Or did I missed any requirements that may have caused it to expire? But it should have at least notify me... right?

To give a little background:

We used to use a different email where our OAuth Client ID credential was created into but that email was deleted and so we created a new gmail account to use. A couple of days ago we set-up this new gmail with the the OAuth 2.0 Client ID (Installed App type same as before), and was generated a RefreshToken for .NET using the latest library's generator (adwords_dotnet_lib_v21.1.0). That email is given a Read-Only access in our AdWords MCC (just like the previous email had) that enables us to query reports, and so our app was working again like before until I got that error this morning.

Again, it's fixed now, but I want to know possible reasons of it getting lost on its own so I know what to do (if there is something I can do).

Thank you in advance! ^__^

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

Glad to hear that you were able to recreate the OAuth2 credentials and continue using AdWords API to download reports. My guess is that a user with access to the API project may have deleted the credentials mistakenly. You could consider contacting Google API Console help for more details.

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.