Thank you Kevin - we will move forward accordingly. Allowing this functionality through the API would be of great benefit to us - and we would welcome any news on that front-
On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:09:02 AM UTC-4, Kevin Winter wrote: > > Hi, > I apologize for the delay, I wanted to research this and make sure I had > the full answer. Product Extensions cannot be created via the API at this > time - they must be added via the UI. This blog post explains this in more > detail: > http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2011/02/discover-v201008-product-ads-and.html > > The blog post also explains how product criteria and ads can be created > via the API. When originally launched, it was limited to a subset of > developers but has since been opened to anyone. (it's possible that > certain countries may not be able to use this, but we don't have a list > handy). > > - Kevin Winter > AdWords API Team > > On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:00:45 AM UTC-4, API2Go wrote: >> >> Thank you for the response Kevin. However, we are already a developer >> with commercial applications for product feeds and adword manipulation. We >> are trying to complete an application which aids our merchants/clients in >> Product Listing Ads - which we are not really having any difficulty with >> either. However, when working manually (not through the api) we simply link >> our merchant account to our adwords account and then choose that account >> when setting up a PLA campaign - the question is "what is the best way to >> do this via the API instead of manually". I don't think the links below >> hold any of these answers. Sorry for any confusion in my question - >> >> On Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:03:39 AM UTC-4, Kevin Winter wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> This discusses how to set up the Merchant Center Datafeed: >>> http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188479 >>> >>> And this talks about product listing ads: >>> http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2456103&from=1306912&rd=1 >>> >>> We don't currently have any code examples showing how this is done via >>> the API. The API access is currently only available to a limited number of >>> developers - please contact your CSR for more information: >>> http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8206&ctx=go&&contactus=1 >>> >>> - Kevin Winter >>> AdWords API Team >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:51:40 AM UTC-4, API2Go wrote: >>>> >>>> Actually I have a two part question - what is the best way to link the >>>> Merchant Center to the appropriate adwords account via the API and how >>>> should we enable the adwords campaign to access the merchant center via >>>> the >>>> API? >>> >>> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
