I am looking at developing an app using the google adwords api.
I have found here that I need an MCC account to be able to access the google adwords API.
Does this mean that only people with adwords accounts linked to my MCC account can use my app?
Or can my app be accessed by anyone with an adwords account?
Your app will be able to access any AdWords account provided the owner of that account allows it.
The AdWords account does not need to be linked to your MCC.
The user of your app will have to grant permission for your app to access their AdWords account before any calls to the AdWords API are made by your app.
Check these docs on the OAuth2 flow out for further details and then these for installed applications.
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I have multiple Google ads account(multiple google ads account associated with one email account) . If I give access of my google ads account to third party app will they have access to all the google ads account?
If the third party app can access all of my google ads account how do I restrict them to access only 1 account that I want.
It's not possible to restrict OAuth2 access to just a single of your Google Ads accounts. I'd recommend to create a new Google account which only has access to the Google Ads account in question and use that to authenticate with the third party app.
I have google oauth2 authorization. To work with google adwords, I need developer token. I can see it on the website in my account, but is there any way to find it programmatically through the api?
google support replied that now there is no such possibility https://groups.google.com/d/msg/adwords-api/RLpvEMFay4s/Wm75mEj9BAAJ
We are trying to integrate Google adwords connectivity into our Marketing Analytics Web application, meaning we are creating an app that would allow small businesses to login to their AdWords accounts and manage them based on findings of our app.
The problem is that upon signing up for API Access AdWords is asking us to link 'our' adwords account to the app account as well. This does not make too much sense to us, why do we need to show our adwords account when we ourselves will not be the main users of the app. It almost seems that AdWords assumes only a couple of users will be using the API.
Is my thinking flawed here? Can anyone clarify?
Google does seem to assume that their AdWords API is used primarily for in-house reporting and account management (as well by advertising agencies managing accounts on behalf of their clients).
Even if you are building an app for general, public use, the app's Client ID, Client Secret, and Developer Token are still connected to your company's MCC account.
However, this does not cause a problem. Any AdWords account owner can authorize your app to access their data, without having to be your client.
I want to login in my iOS App with a Google account. Instead of having a database with users and having to register all the users, I simply login with my existing Google account.
Anyone knows a way of doing this, or a tutorial?
Google Accounts Authentication and Authorization for Mobile Apps has fairly detailed instructions for authenticating Google account users and includes iOS-specific steps.
What i need to do to use Google AdWords API? Is it real that i must register at My Client Center, pay money and pass stupid tests on google testing service?
in order to use AdWords API, you need to:
have a regular Google AdWords account (not My Client Center - MCC one) with campaigns
have an MCC account... which cannot have campaigns but have an access to API
link your regular AdWords account with the MCC account
ask for API access from your MCC Account (My Profile section)
pay for API use per Google's rate sheet
... you can apply for free API usage, however this does come with a cost. This is where you need to do those stupid tests to get recognized as Certified Partner and fulfill some other requirements. And yes, you need to pay for these tests (last time I checked, it was $50 per test, there are about 4 of them for AdWords altogether, don't know how many you need to pass to get certified though).
P.S.: those 2 accounts (AdWords and MCC) cannot be combined and for some reason only the MCC one has access to API... wierd but that goes "by design" according to API Support (can't find the link at the moment).
You can use the Adwords API without having a MCC or passing any tests, even WITHOUT having an Adwords account, by using the Adwords API sandbox
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/sandbox.html
Of course this is to be used only for developing and testing purposes..
For getting Google AdWords API access you do not need to give any test.
Google adwords api is free for basic access but billing detail you need to
provide to google adwords.
you can refer this link for sign Up process and how to get approve token,
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/signingup?hl=en