Hello, You should use an Installed application rather than a Service account. This will require a one-time user interaction to get a refresh token, and from then on your server application can act autonomously reusing that refresh token. This is the most frequent use case, and the one that most of our examples use.
Please see our AdWords-specific OAuth guide <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/authentication> for instructions on how to set this up. Regards, Mike, AdWords API Team On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 3:57:43 PM UTC-5, Mark Jones wrote: > > Hello <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/community/>, > > I am developing a server side application that needs to upload offline > conversions. I am trying to figure out if this is possible using > Service account where our production server can make calls to the Google > APIs on behalf of my server side application instead of an end-user. > > After logging into the Google developers console and navigating to APIs & > auth --> Credentials, clicking on the Create new Client ID button, we are > presented with three options: > > 1. Web application - Accessed by web browsers over a network. > 2. Service account - Calls Google APIs on behalf of your application > instead of an end-user. > 3. Installed application - Runs on a desktop computer or handheld device > (like Android or iPhone). > > Choosing Web application forces you to create a consent screen, but since > I need to do all the work server-side without any user intervention the > consent screen option does not seem to be the correct choice. Seems like a > Service account would be the best choice, but those accounts to not create > a ClientID, ClientSecret, and RefreshToken. > > All of the code examples point toward Web application where you are > required to reference a Client ID, Client Secret, and RefreshToken. > > Can anyone shed some like on this topic? My goal is to upload offline > conversions using Java and performing all the work server side. > > > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/importing-conversions#code_examples > > https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201409/OfflineConversionFeedService > https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2?hl=en_US#serviceaccount > https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/8710e358-0483-4048-94ca-8f0e5388cad4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
