This article outlines the mechanisms that can be used to login to a Google account with the AdWords API. I present a higher level overview here that doesn’t contain any code, but if you want to get into the code…
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Sunset of AdWords API versions v13, v200909, v201003, v201008, and v201101
I’ve been busy over the past month upgrading AdWords API tools that I built for previous customers onto v201109 before the migration deadline on February 29th. I’m happy to say that the customers who contacted me will have working systems…
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Using the AdWords API Sandbox
Please note that the AdWords API Sandbox has been deprecated, and you should now test your applications using a test account. The sandbox environment for the AdWords API enables you to test out your applications without worrying about using up…
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Creating Accounts with the AdWords API
This post explains how to automatically add a customer account to an MCC account using the AdWords API. After five years of being asked the same question, I can finally answer “yes!”, when people ask me if it’s possible to…
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Using OAuth with the AdWords API
This article provides a tutorial introducing the use of OAuth 2.0 in AdWords API applications. The AdWords API had had full support for OAuth since 2011, and several customers have asked me for ways to authenticate users for the API…
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Downloading an AdWords API Report
I think I must have written a similar tutorial several times over the years, but it’s time to post another one as the method to extract reports from AdWords has just changed once again. The latest version of the AdWords…
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AdWords API Development Simplified
After spending the past five years building software with the AdWords API, this year I’ve decided to take a broader view of my work and investigate how I could make the development process easier. There appears to be quite a…
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Dynamic Product Pricing using the AdWords API
I’m often asked to develop tools that upload ads and keywords to AdWords from product catalogs, but sometimes my customers don’t want to upload new ads, they just want to change the price that’s displayed in them. PPC Tool developers…
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Connecting To the AdWords API Using Just SOAP
It is best to use the official client libraries provided by Google to access the AdWords API: They have additional modifications and utilities to make life easier, and are kept up to date. However, occasionally you might want to bypass…
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Obtaining OAuth 2.0 Access Tokens from Google
To use oAuth 2.0, you need to supply a Redirect URL, and your Client Id and Client Secret tokens. These can be obtained by signing up at the Google API Console. If you’ve never used it before, then the first…
