All The Little Steps To Get Started With The Google Ads API

[@Joel_bjornfors]

Brilliant! Exactly what you need to get started. Perfect length and just enough details for you to understand that you are in the right place without overwhelming you with stuff that is way to advanced this early in the process.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Thank you so much Joel!

[@Joel_bjornfors]

This is also the only video i have found where someone explains how to get the refresh token. Thank you!

[@austinpena5488]

@@Joel_bjornfors That's definitely one of the most annoying parts

[@ZimaMedia]

I like your cat. Many have appeared in some of my videos. Keep pumping them out!

[@dev.station]

if anyone else is getting the 401 redirect_uri error, try to add the oauthplayground url to the authorized redirect uris (example at the minute 6:10)

[@Sergio-td7mn]

thank you, super valuable. I didn't find too much in this topic, I hope you create more content on using python for google ads/ analytics and all this marketing tech stuff.

[@dev.station]

thank you so so much for this video. you're the only one i've found that explained in such a didactic way and went directly to the point!!!

[@NikolayBarbanov]

Cat is the main character of the video! ))) Austin, Thank you for the instruction, it is perfect!!!

[@jashyotes]

That video best be shot from a room with a commercial lease!

[@buildwithaustin8442]

I sure do love my dedicated office space. Yes sir

[@jabeztadesse]

Hi, please make a video for the Service Account Oath Flow!

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Probably won't! Sorry!

[@jabeztadesse]

@@buildwithaustin8442 Woops that was awkward. 😅

[@niknik6777]

Thank you! That was very helpful, exactly what I was looking for.

[@jamesl4825]

How I can use the test account? Google recommends using that before working with production data. But there is no API Center tab in the Ads interface. And 2nd question, do I need to go through all the keys/oauth stuff presented in this video for the test account? Im confused because on a normal Google Ads account you get a developer test token vs they are talking about a test account where you cannot generate the token .

[@modelka222]

am getting the following error Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch You can't sign in to this app because it doesn't comply with Google's OAuth 2.0 policy. can you please help?

[@buildwithaustin8442]

My mistake, sorry! In order to use the OAUTH playground, you need to add it as an "Authorized redirect URI." This is shown at 6:15

[@GlauberSilva333]

@@buildwithaustin8442 I still getting this error even adding it.

[@mgcl2]

@@GlauberSilva333 Were you able to solve it? Thanks.

[@thomasbooij6239]

You, sir, are a legend.

[@elhipster1]

Thnak you this is exactly what I was looking for!

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Happy to help!

[@RomanZahoruiko]

Thanks! Very helpful video.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Glad it was helpful!

[@赵子毅]

Thank u very much! But I have wait 5 days after applying google ads api permission, and I have not recieve any email of Google. What should I do?

[@asivak]

Hello, sorry, but you missed my main question why i turned on this video. In step one, they say: Manager accounts cannot be created using the same email address as an existing Google Ads account. You must therefore use an email address that hasn't already been associated with a Google Ads account to create your manager account. This part is very very confusing. And I didn't find any explanations regarding this. I was able to create my google ads manager account for the same gmail account I am using on my google ads. But I am afraid to link it to not get blocked. Can you tell regarding this? Can I link my account within same google ads account?

[@austinpena5488]

You likely need to create an MCC with a new email.

[@fengjung6642]

Thanks for sharing this video! Very useful...

[@austinpena5488]

You're welcome! Feel free to add a comment if you run into any issues.

[@quarlmephystodot2201]

HUGE issue. at 9:24 i get an error: Access blocked. This app's request is invalid. You can’t sign in because this app sent an invalid request. You can try again later, or contact the developer about this issue. Learn more about this error If you are a developer of this app, see error details. Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch how to...

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Please check the description for how to fix this.

[@quarlmephystodot2201]

@@buildwithaustin8442 i did. i added that URI in the API & Settings in the cloud app. TY very much. Google isn't very straightforward. i am sure this is because they change developers all the time and never have a finished product. bad policy... but hey, we all depend on their services and their monopoly so far. thx again, very informative video

[@buildwithaustin8442]

@@quarlmephystodot2201 Happy to help. Best of luck with your journey!

[@quarlmephystodot2201]

@@buildwithaustin8442 same.

[@vladoesgrowth]

thanks for the video! quick question. When I run your query code, it returns ""The developer token is only approved for use with test accounts". I thought your example worked with the test account, and that it didnt require the basic access?

[@austinpena5488]

Are you sure you're passing through the test account ID as the account you created?

[@vladoesgrowth]

@@austinpena5488 nope. The issue was that I tried to access it with my own google-ads account. but I actually had to set up a test manager and client account. it works now. Thanks for the video!

[@robert-robert-robert]

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

[@austinpena5488]

You're welcome! I'm glad you got some use out of it!

[@mohammedazeem3303]

Hi, Austin, you might have missed to mask your MCC Id @ 2:28s Can you please confirm if my GCP Id has to match with the MCC Id / Mcc test to link the developer token with the console project or I can use any Mcc Id/developer token with any GCP id/its projects?

[@buildwithaustin8442]

MCC ID only matters when you start making API calls. That's a dummy MCC so it's all good for me.

[@kisholoymukherjee]

Hi Austin, thanks for this really useful video.I am getting this error once I reach the OAuth2 Playground stage Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch Can you suggest how to deal with this? Do I need to provide Authorised redirect URIs? If so, what should go in there?

[@kisholoymukherjee]

I actually followed the step given for 6:15 in the description and it still doesn't work

[@austinpena5488]

@@kisholoymukherjee My guess is you made a mistake and added the URL incorrectly / in the wrong place if you're still getting the error.

[@kisholoymukherjee]

Please check this link, this is a screenshot of how I have set it up drive.google.com/file/d/1iz4wqQnAARg4-JWTd6fh38Lg_eWcQid_/view?usp=sharing @@austinpena5488

[@kisholoymukherjee]

Please take a look and let me know where the error is

[@dev.station]

Hi! Im getting the same error. Did you find the answer?

[@tieduprightnowprcls]

does this Google Ads API could provide us ingestion for line items, creatives, inventory, advertisers data?

[@bricedesoras6871]

Hi, this video is awesome ! It seems there has been a new verification layer added by google now and you have to post a youtube video to explain how your app will work and how to connect to it, etc.. Any info about that ? On how to handle that easily ? thanks !!

[@goodtimevlogs]

Unable to generate refresh token from oauthplayground. Although finally found the solution in the comment and description. Major thing missed in video clip :D

[@kisholoymukherjee]

Can you please tell me what the solution is? Am facing this issue too

[@stevegeick5570]

Hey - what do you mean by "this is shown at 6:15"? Looks like there is nothing in the Authorized redirect field at 6:15. Asking because it doesn't allow me to enter the OAuth2 Playground as the URL. It says "Invalid domain: must be a top private domain".

[@buildwithaustin8442]

1. 6:15 shows a screen that has a title called "Authorized redirect URI". This is in the "credentials" sidemenu option 2. Under that field, click the button "+ Add URI" 3. Insert the URL developers.google.com/oauthplayground to this field 4. Click save If that doesn't work, please report back

[@karlfinnbogason8778]

​@@buildwithaustin8442 Thank you for this video and explanation. I was going crazy figuring out what I was supposed to add to the Add URI until I saw your information! I added it and it worked like a charm to get me the refresh token.

[@kisholoymukherjee]

@@buildwithaustin8442 Still doesn't work for me unfortunately :(

[@PipoDeClown-d1n]

Would love to see you make a vid on working with Drive API, and downloading folders fetched from the google drive.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Not planned at the moment, but thank you

[@kisholoymukherjee]

@@buildwithaustin8442 Will you be working on Python automation related videos? Or any other topic? Would be interseted since this video was so nicely made

Thank you!

[@albiemane]

Thank you for this. It has been super helpful! Do you know what the best way would be if I needed to iterate through 1,000+ accounts and run the query for each account? I seem to be running into an error when I put all the accounts in a list and had it iterate through the function item by item in the list.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Haha, sounds like you're working on interesting problems. With the Google Ads API, it tends to work better to just make a ton of small queries rather than a few big ones. I recommend batching 10-50 requests at once through something like async python: realpython.com/python-async-features/ For when I deploy production services like this, I tend to have a Python service hosted on Google Cloud Run that I trigger from a separate HTTP request that can scale vertically.

[@VIVACIDADECARE]

Hi there, sorry, you lost me at the point when we should do :Create a test account. Page is not working. And when I should request access to the test account, I get stopped as I am not able to deliver a Design documentation of your tool. May I missed a step? Then I am very sorry, but I watched it several times and I can not follow here.

[@charliedeThibault]

Amazing thanks!

[@ricardorzm]

Thanks for this video! It was very helpful! Hope to see more content :)

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Glad it helped!

[@smurfcreation7881]

Can you post it in nodejs or php code

[@edwinvillagomez]

great vid, thank you!

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Glad it helped!

[@dmseroff]

Hi, Austin! Do I need a developer token if I'm developing app for offline conversion upload for personal accounts (not mcc)?

[@austinpena5488]

Pretty sure you do. Or you can use zapier

[@dmseroff]

@@austinpena5488 zapier doesn't support wbraid. I've tried everything, it always asks for developer token :(

[@Winston-xl1lu]

Great Video! Thank you for making it very easy to follow. But, I'm fairly new to python. I'm usnig VSC. When I run the make client script. I get KeyError: 'developer_token' I'm not sure how to fix it. The developer token is as per what's in API Centre. Any thoughts on what could be the issue here? TIA

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Hi Winston. A KeyError is when you try to get a value from a dictionary that doesn't exist. When you try to reference a value like your_dict['item'], the 'item' doesn't exist. Try pasting your code into chatgpt and seeing if it can find the error if you cannot.

[@Winston-xl1lu]

@@buildwithaustin8442 Thank You for the feedback. Have managed to resolve the issue with ChatGPT assistance.

[@ArthurCaldas-nj6ow]

My OAuth Client part looks a bit different then the way you showed in your video. When I select the scope of the app (the Google ADS API), it has a little lock on it, and now I'm facing lot's of issues like sending a youtube video demonstrating what I want to do with this app and etc so that google can verify my app, and only then I'm able to publish the app. Is this a new change? Could you maybe help me out on how to get around this?

[@austinpena5488]

Hey Arthur, you need to keep your OAuth client for internal or testing use. When you publish it, like you have, you have to send the oAuth team a video.

[@hossamzaabl5275]

Getting this on my final step, any solution, please. "User doesn't have permission to access customer. Note: If you're accessing a client customer, the manager's customer id must be set in the 'login-customer-id' header"

[@buildwithaustin8442]

That's an authorization error. Basically, the account you got your refresh token for isn't on the account you're trying to access. Does the account have direct access? Perhaps it is only connected via an MCC? If it's only connected via an MCC, be sure to pass through your MCC ID during the "make_client" function.

[@hossamzaabl5275]

@@buildwithaustin8442 Hi, I did put my MCC account but it did show me an error indicating that this is not an approved account yet only use a test account, when I did put my test account id instead of the MCC account I got the error mentioned above, so is there a way to link the user account I am trying to access to that of the test account if this is the error, if not what would be the error and what should I be doing thanks in advance

[@hossamzaabl5275]

I think I understood this step, the thing is I need to create a client user under my test account, the thing is, I am getting the error ' 'Your account's access level doesn't include billing information. If you need access to billing, speak with your account admin.'' so I don't get it, am I allowed to create a client account under my test account or not, if yes then how

[@buildwithaustin8442]

@@hossamzaabl5275 Feel free to get on the /r/ppc slack to message me directly. Is this error on Google Cloud or on Google Ads?

[@bloggingplaza5338]

it not working i try to generate access token

[@javierlog08]

I dont see the API Center option on the menu , and my account is administrator. Did they remove that option?

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Are you looking for it in an MCC?

[@shubhamaptekar7748]

how i can do it with service account

[@buildwithaustin8442]

A couple more steps: developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/oauth/service-accounts

[@shubhamaptekar7748]

@@buildwithaustin8442 I tried but I am not able to this can you help me ?

[@mohammedazeem3303]

Hi, Austin Hope you're doing good. I was working on moving data from BigQuery >> Google Ads & wasn't able to get any useful resource to experiment the same. I have already experimented on moving data from GA>>BQ via "transfer Service API", "Scripts" etc. but, vise-versa still remains a challenge. Could you please, share any resource or guide me on how to proceed in this direction? Appreciate your time & efforts.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Checkout Fivetran or someone who does it as a managed service

[@TestManager-o5f]

Thank you, please make video on google ads conversions on java(code)

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Not something I'm planning on

[@hienphung483]

i need tutorial with PHP

[@Ateszika]

I don't see "API center" in the menu, do I really need an Adsense account as well just for this? so annoying

[@buildwithaustin8442]

Did you create a Google Ads Manager account to look?

[@Sergio-td7mn]

just saw, you have only one video. Anybody can recommend me a source, like a udemy course or something(google ads/ analytics and all this marketing tech stuff)?

[@osvaldovegacasanova3559]

went straigt to create a basic account but then they asked for documentation .... big fail

[@AditiAtray-hx1ev]

If anybody have worked on Google ads api Using service account please reply on my message. As I am stuck and it would be really helpful.

[@stormx39]

Same. Did you get it working?

[@deepakpant6209]

Did you actually slowed down this video? It looks quite unnatural

[@austinpena5488]

No that's just how I am

[@deepakpant6209]

That's great

[@deepakpant6209]

I followed every steps alongside with you but facing this weird error even though I have done everything what it says. "User doesn't have permission to access customer. Note: If you're accessing a client customer, the manager's customer id must be set in the 'login-customer-id'"

[@deepakpant6209]

I have used the same email which made the project on Google cloud, so technically I am accessing my account only. Even then it says error.

[@buildwithaustin8442]

@@deepakpant6209 You need to add your mcc id to the request

[@Luccient]

I am completely new to python. I followed all your steps but I'm not able to run the app. I can't run it from code blocks like you're doing because I'm using VS Code. I try to execute the script by running: python3 get_search_terms_and_save_to_csv.py. However I get this error: line 2, in from make_client.make_client import make_client ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'make_client'

[@austinpena5488]

Hey sorry I missed this, did you get it? I use Pycharm, but typically you can set something called a Python Root which makes package resolution easier.

[@赵子毅]

Thank u very much! But I have wait 5 days after applying google ads api permission, and I have not recieve any email of Google. What should I do?