Hi Josh,
I followed your advice and used the offline flow from the OAuth guide
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/authentication to
obtain a refresh token for the user. I added that token to the config with
the new OAuth2 client credentials (not service account), and it
Hi Cory,
Thanks for the update - glad to hear that my recommendation worked for you.
Your assessment of the docs is spot on -- there were some changes in the
Google Developers Console recently, and we're a bit behind on syncing up
our guides. We plan to take care of that in the near future.
Hi,
I'm not aware of any recent changes to service account requirements -- they
have always required a Google Apps Domain as far back as I recall.
Coming at this from a different angle, do you actually need service account
functionality, or could you simply use *offline* access as described in
We've had no problems with our previous service account for about 1 year
now. It still works fine, and we never had to add any AdWords scope to
anything. It even worked locally without any issues which isn't a Google
App. And yes we need the service account, because managers of the AdWords
The only way to use the API now with a service account is using a Google
Apps domain paying for Google Apps users per month? It wasn't like that
before. Plus how would this work with localhost and testing purposes? We
don't need any of what Google Apps has to offer. We just want API access
Hi,
It may be that your old Google Apps Domain was a Free edition (legacy)
https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en domain, which is why
the new domain with a similar setup will not work without upgrading.
However, you can achieve your goal of having read-only access for your
Hi,
Did you also complete the Steps to granting a service account impersonation
abilities
https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/service-accounts#impersonation,
using the new client ID?
Thanks,
Josh, AdWords API Team
On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 4:11:04 PM UTC-4, Cory Shaw
We recently had to switch to a new manager account for AdWords due to the
domain of the email associated with the account. We have an in-house
dashboard for our clients to sign in and visually see reports returned from
the AdWords API. On our previous MCC account we were accepted to the API
