I'm having some problems creating a script that automatically retrieves
some metrics from Google Ads for a daily report for the company I work in.
I've been reading tens of pages of documentation, troubleshooting and help,
but unfortunately they only increased my confusion.
Initially, we only had a Google Ads account, that we use to manage ad
campaigns. This is what I did next:
1. I created an Ad Manager account, and successfully associated it to
our Google Ads account, in order to have access to the Google Ads API.
2. I requested access to the API and, long story short, I now have
access at the *basic* level.
3. After reading tens of help pages, I decided to use a server-to-server
flow. The script I'm creating has to be executed automatically by cronjob,
so if I understood correctly I can't use any other authentication method.
4. I created a new project from the developer console and associated
Google Ads API to it.
5. I created a service account and gave it viewer rights. I didn't
enable domain-wide delegation because it requires a G Suite/Google
Workspace account, which we don't have, and one of the guides said it's
optional.
6. I generated a JSON key file fr the service account, and saved it on
my computer.
7. I tried a query to test the access. This is a simplified version of
the Python 3 code:
from google.ads.google_ads.client import GoogleAdsClient
credentials = {
'developer_token': ... # received in (2)
'login_customer_id': ... # the manager account ID
'json_key_file_path': ... # where I saved the JSON key file from (6)
impersonated_email': ... # the service account's email
}
client = GoogleAdsClient.load_from_dict(credentials)
ga_service = client.get_service('GoogleAdsService', version='v6')
response = ga_service.search(
GA_CUSTOMER_ID,
query='SELECT campaign.cost_micros FROM campaign'
)
for item in response:
print(item)
(I really hope the code is formatted properly, sorry if it isn't)
The last two lines are for me to get a feeling of what I'm working with,
while the rest should be definitive, unless there is a better way, of
course.
Instead of getting the response, I get the error NOT_ADS_USER: "User in the
cookie is not a valid Ads user."
I obviously did something wrong somewhere, but after three days I really
don't know what else to try. The amount of options available is
discouraging, and I have the sensation that sometimes the documentation
contradicts itself on different pages, or maybe I just misunderstood
something.
If anyone could give me some insight, I would be very grateful.
Thanks for having the patience to read this wall of text.
Best Regards
Davide
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