Re: Read-only access via API, should be full access

Hi Konstantin, Since it is unknown which user is responsible for creating the Google Cloud project, I would recommend creating a new Cloud project. You can make note of that user and ensure they have proper access in all required accounts. Then, regenerate the refresh token using the OAuth

Re: Read-only access via API, should be full access

Hello, - the access is limited not only to budgets but also to e.g. adgroups, we tried. - the end target account in question was actually created by one of the agency MCC users using Administrative access. - the other accounts of that customer (that we also can only read but cannot write to

RE: Read-only access via API, should be full access

Hi Konstantin, Thank you for raising this concern to the Google Ads API team. However, I had to delete your initial post as it contained your logs. That said, I am reposting below your concern without the attached logs : "we have a peculiar problem with the API. We are using an API token we

Read-only access via API, should be full access

Hello Google Ads API Support Team, we have a peculiar problem with the API. We are using an API token we got via an agency (9837879498) to manage an account (9845323299) for one of their clients (3213552882). We using the same token for all clients of that agency. Other accounts from other

RE: Get a developer token with read-only access

Hi Thomas, Thank you for bringing this question to our attention. The best way to gain access to the clients Google Ads Account is for them to either create a developer token and OAuth credentials for you. Which can then have the access that is requested, or to change the access on the account

Get a developer token with read-only access

Hello, I work for a client who gave me read-only access to his google ads account and I would like to use the API to create reports and send them by email, can we use the API when our account is only read rights? How to get a developer token and OAuth credentials? it will be the admin account

Re: Best practice - read only access

Hi Scott, We may be able to file a feature request on your behalf for this. However, I would just like to confirm -- the 'Grant access' screen presented seems to suggest the inviting manager is permitted to make changes to the invitee's account, but you do in fact only have read only access

Re: Best practice - read only access

Thanks for the link. When OUR MCC invites a customer's MCC, the customer is presented with a disclaimer saying: *Grant XXX access to this account?* If you grant XXX access to this account, they can change and manage your entire account, including all ads and keywords, as well as accept Terms

Re: Best practice - read only access

Hello Scott, Thanks for getting back to us. With regard to your concern on updating user access levels, you can check on these available guides ( Managing User Access | Managing User Access Invitations ) instead. Regards, Mark Kevin Albios Google Ads API Team ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2FX3u1:ref

Re: Best practice - read only access

How can we link to their account of some kind but NOT have full access? We want to guarantee that we only have read-only access. On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 1:45:05 PM UTC-5 adsapiforumadvisor wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Thank you for reaching out. If you do not want to have your em

RE: Best practice - read only access

Hi Scott, Thank you for reaching out. If you do not want to have your email added to the client MCC as a user, then you could consider having the client MCC linked to your main MCC instead. This way you don’t have to expose your email to the client. You could follow the instructions in this

Best practice - read only access

We have a new aspect of our business where we need to simply pull Google Ads data via the API for multiple customers -- in a read-only fashion. Let's say we'll have 20 new customers in the next few months -- each has a couple dozen accounts respectively. Can you suggest the proper way to be

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Hi Ankit, In this scenario, the client account will only be accessed by the user/developer that has the correct OAuth2 credentials using the AdWords API. This means that, only the OAuth2 credentials created using an email address which has access to the account can view/modify the information

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Hi Peter, Your answer was very helpful. I just had one more doubt. I create a client account. Create a Budget Order for the account. Invite another manager account via the AdWords API. Will this new person access the account via the manager account will be able to modify the budget order? On

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Hi Ankit, When you generate OAuth2 credentials using the email address of a manager account, the said credentials will allow the user to access all client accounts under that specific account. As for administrative access, the manager account should have administrative access to client

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Does this mean both the manager account has admin access over the client account? The new manager account can also delete the client account? Will that be the case? On Monday, 13 November 2017 09:54:05 UTC+5:30, Peter Oliquino wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Once you have been invited and you have

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

They can do anything? Can they delete this account? On Friday, 10 November 2017 14:49:31 UTC+5:30, Peter Oliquino wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Regarding the access levels such as "read-only" access for AdWords > accounts, I'm afraid that this is currently not possible v

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Hi Michael, Once you have been invited and you have accepted it, you can then proceed with generating your OAuth2 credentials using the same email address which was invited for access. Using an approved developer token

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Thanks, Peter. If somebody with an adwords account invites us via an email address, will we then be able to access their account via the API? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Thanks, Peter. If somebody with an adwords account invites us via an email address, will we then be able to access their account via the API? On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 1:19:31 AM UTC-8, Peter Oliquino wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Regarding the access levels such as "

Re: Invite client accounts for read-only access

Hi Michael, Regarding the access levels such as "read-only" access for AdWords accounts, I'm afraid that this is currently not possible via the AdWods API. This is done via the AdWords UI using email addresses and you may refer to this guide <https://support.google.com/adwords/a

Invite client accounts for read-only access

after a lot of searching: We only need and want to display performance reports and are not "managing" the accounts. I gather that is "read-only" access. But there seems to be no way to request read-only. When the client goes to accept the invitation, they see war

Re: Apply Developer Token with Read-Only Access Level

dWords API Team) wrote: > > Hi, > > It is possible to apply for a basic access > <https://services.google.com/fb/forms/newtoken/> of a developer token > even though you only have a read only access. The read only access > <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704

Re: Apply Developer Token with Read-Only Access Level

ewtoken/> of a developer token > even though you only have a read only access. The read only access > <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?hl=en> only applies to > the permissible actions that you can do in the AdWords UI/product itself, > and not in the a

Re: Apply Developer Token with Read-Only Access Level

Hi, It is possible to apply for a basic access <https://services.google.com/fb/forms/newtoken/> of a developer token even though you only have a read only access. The read only access <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?hl=en> only applies to the permissible acti

Apply Developer Token with Read-Only Access Level

Hi guys, Just wanna confirm here that if my account has read-only access level, even API Adwords Center shows up in my account setting, I am still not eligible to apply for developer token? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https

Re: API Pull with Read Only Access

Hi Bill, If you give your client read-only access <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?hl=en>, they will be able to use the API once they generate credentials. They will not be able to change anything (e.g, create campaigns, pause/enable campaigns) but they will b

API Pull with Read Only Access

We would like to give a client Read Only Access to an account. They intend to connect that account to their reporting tool via API. Would it be possible for our client to access an account with API credentials if their login is at the Read-Only level

Re: How can I grant read-only access to the third-party application

Hi, If you link your AdWords account to your friend's Manager account, he'll have both read and write access to the account. I would suggest that you grant read only access by following these instructions <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?hl=en>. If both

How can I grant read-only access to the third-party application

on these..) 2) If HE authorizes his application to access HIS AdWords Manager Account by OAuth - Is it enough if I link my AdWords account with his Manager Account for read-only access? and finally 3) Should I authorize my *developerToken *with Google and pass the token on to him, or he should

Re: Adwords API read only access via OAUTH2

Hi Kevin, Has this been documented? Please let me know. Thanks, Aditya -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts

How to give developer read-only access to production accounts

I want to give my developer read-only access to a few of our production accounts to give him relevant data for testing purposes. I have a production MCC that also has been used to create API credentials. This account also holds the Adwords API access. I have created test accounts both MCC

Re: How to give developer read-only access to production accounts

Hi, For each account under the MCC, you can provide read-only access by going to your *Account settings->Account access *and sending the developer an invitation via *+User.* Please check out this reference page <https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704346?ctx=tltp#levels>

Re: Read Only Access

Regarding the last option what is the difference between users and accounts ? What kind of Google accounts can you invite at Account settings Account access in the MCC client center, only other Google Adwords MCC Accounts, every Google Account, or every user with an E-Mail ? -- --

Re: Read Only Access

Hi, The account is the AdWords application, whereas the user is the one using the account (e.g. the email addresses with access to the account). The email addresses you invite to access your account need to be Google accounts that do not have access to *other *AdWords accounts. For more

Re: Read Only Access

read-only access from our mcc account to their adwords account? thank you in advance, Kristian -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts

Re: Read Only Access

Hi Kristian, To my knowledge, the only option for read-only MCC access is: 1. Create an MCC under MCC user A 2. Link all AdWords accounts to the MCC 3. Invite another MCC user B to have Read-only access to the MCC The only problem here is that MCC user A will still have *User interface

Read Only Access

. Therefore they only want to grant us read-only access. Is it possible to to do this ? -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts

Re: Read Only Access

Hello, Yes, you can grant read-only access to the account. When granting someone permission to your account via *Account settings - Account access - Choose an access level, *you can set the access level to *Read-only access* The types of access levels are - Administrative access

Re: Adwords API read only access via OAUTH2

if there is an Oauth2 scope that will allow me to request Read Only access to the Adwords API? The only documented scope that I see is: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords; Thanks. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https

Re: AdWords oauth will not connect when using Read only access level logins

Hi TJ, The behavior of the fact that requests for CustomerService with read-only access fails is the issue on the AdWords API side. We should fix that. (#1 solution) I checked it with the relevant engineer. The fix will be applied anytime soon. Best, - Takeshi, AdWords API Team

Re: AdWords oauth will not connect when using Read only access level logins

Confirmed yes, we are using Customer Service. And similar to the other posting, we are getting this response OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED. And the login type (read only) has been set that way for years and this bug just started happening in early February. We fixed it temporarily

Re: Read-only access to CustomerService (v201309)

Hi Ernnie, Is your error same as with this threadhttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/adwords-api/bwtCmZXTC10/iJqyDJgfwOYJ ? If so, is is possible to update that thread to gather the info in one place. Best, - Takeshi, AdWords API Team On Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:29:34 PM UTC+9, Ernnie

Re: AdWords oauth will not connect when using Read only access level logins

Hi TJ, Let me confirm, are your requests using CustomerService? If so there is a similar thread, please provide the details that are different from others. We are looking into the issue. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/adwords-api/bwtCmZXTC10/XYwGaQPbtmgJ Best, - Takeshi, AdWords API Team On

AdWords oauth will not connect when using Read only access level logins

Our application has successfully connected to many adwords accounts via oauth. We stumbled on a tricky issue today where we could not get an oauth connection. Turns out, I was able to replicate the successful/unsuccessful connection simply by toggling the adwords login from standard

Re: Read-only access to CustomerService (v201309)

Hi Takeshi, Please update us when this issue is resolved. Btw, we are encountering similar errors. Thanks, --Ernnie On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:57:41 PM UTC+8, Takeshi Hagikura (AdWords API Team) wrote: Hi Rob, Thanks for the report. From what you experienced sounds like it's not an

Re: Read-only access to CustomerService (v201309)

Hi Rob, Thanks for the report. From what you experienced sounds like it's not an expected behavior. Can you please share the request and response XML logs to look it further? (Please redact the sensitive info) Also have you changed your code or environment recently in your side? Best, -

Read-only access to CustomerService (v201309)

Hi, We've started seeing OperationAccessDenied.ACTION_NOT_PERMITTED errors when calling the CustomerService get method using read-only credentials. It works fine for accounts using standard or administrative access. Is there a reason why read-only account should not be allowed to call this

Re: Adwords API read only access via OAUTH2

Thanks! -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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

Re: Adwords API read only access via OAUTH2

Hi Scott, Currently, this is not possible - you will get the full permissions of the authenticated user. One way to emulate this is to get a user with read-only access to the AdWords account in question to authenticate via OAuth2. We've seen a few requests for a read-only OAuth scope

Re: Cannot get Customer ID with read only access

Hi Danial, You know what - it works fine for me now as well? Very strange, but I am happy :) Thanks for your help. Ben On Feb 7, 10:02 am, Danial Klimkin danial.klimkin+fo...@google.com wrote: Hi Ben, I just created a read-only user and used SAS to retrieve account hierarchy but was not

Re: Cannot get Customer ID with read only access

Hi Ben, I just created a read-only user and used SAS to retrieve account hierarchy but was not able to reproduce the issue. I got all the IDs back as expected. Is this the production or sandbox environment? Can you please send us the full XML request and response via email? -Danial, AdWords

Re: Cannot get Customer ID with read only access

Hello Ben, How do you retrieve the client customer ID? Is this ServicedAccountService or InfoService? -Danial, AdWords API Team. -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com

Re: Cannot get Customer ID with read only access

Hi Danial, With the v13 lib I am using AccountService (https://adwords.google.com/ api/adwords/v13/AccountService) With v201109 I am using ServicedAccountGraph Thanks for help. Kind regards, Ben On Feb 3, 10:19 am, Danial Klimkin danial.klimkin+fo...@google.com wrote: Hello Ben, How do

Cannot get Customer ID with read only access

Hi, I am trying to re-write my old v13 Reporting service using the new v201109 API. (in .Net c#) I have managed to get nearly everything working and was pleased that I can now run reports for clients Adwords accounts without needing full access, just read-only access. The problem is you need