Hi Jakob,
Would it be possible for your application to use either of the Desktop or Web
App OAuth strategies instead of Service Accounts? Although they require human
intervention, you should only need to intervene once to create a refresh token,
which can then be used to generate access tokens
Hi Jakob,
Thanks for your feedback. Please allow me to share this with our team and see
if there are any other options we can provide.
Regards,
Matt
Google Ads API Team
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Well ... that's really bad. For pure backend services there is no other way
then using service accounts and this poses a major security risk.
Are there any plan on improving on this? Maybe allow service accounts to be
invited as users to a google ads account so that they can be managed
similarly
Hi Jakob,
I'm Kevin from the Google Ads API Team. I'll my best to answer your question.
As stated in our documentation, Google Ads does not support using service
accounts without impersonation. I'm afraid that there's no way to manage
permissions for a service account in Google Ads.
Let me
