# README

google-ads-go

Google Ads API version	`v0_7_0`
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Features

Fully matches the latest Google Ads API Reference
Implemented via gRPC with Protocol Buffers
CLI utils and API for generating and refreshing Google Ads credentials

Installation

To install, simply run:

$ go get -d github.com/kritzware/google-ads-go

Make sure your PATH includes the $GOPATH/bin directory if you want to use the CLI utils:

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Example

package main

import (
  "fmt"

  "github.com/kritzware/google-ads-go/ads"
  "github.com/kritzware/google-ads-go/services"
)

func main() {
  // Create a client from credentials file
  client, err := ads.NewClientFromStorage("google-ads.json")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  
  // Load the "GoogleAds" service
  googleAdsService := services.NewGoogleAdsServiceClient(client.Conn())
  
  // Create a search request
  request := services.SearchGoogleAdsRequest{
    CustomerId: "2984242032",
    Query:      "SELECT campaign.id, campaign.name FROM campaign ORDER BY campaign.id",
  }
  
  // Get the results
  response, err := googleAdsService.Search(client.Context(), &request)
  for _, row := range response.Results {
    campaign := row.Campaign
    fmt.Printf("id: %d, name: %s\n", campaign.Id.Value, campaign.Name.Value)
  }
}

When using the NewGoogleAdsClientFromStorage method, you must provide a path to a valid google-ads.json file (containing your Google Ads API credentials).

{
    "client_id": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
    "client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
    "refresh_token": "YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN",
    "developer_token": "YOUR_DEVELOPER_TOKEN"
}

CLI

This library also provides some CLI utilities for generating/refreshing Google OAuth2 credentials. The newly generated token will be printed to stdout, as well as the expiry timestamp.

Generate Access Token from Refresh token

$ gads refresh -client-id CLIENT_ID -client-secret CLIENT_SECRET -refresh-token REFRESH_TOKEN

Generate Access Token from JSON credentials file

$ gads refresh -file credentials.json

Additionally, you can use the -help flag for more information: gads refresh --help

Contributing

Compiling

All build scripts use Makefile

Build and run

$ make run

Run with gRPC debugging output

$ make run-debug

Changelog

To see the changes between Google Ads API versions, take a look at the official Google Ads API Release Notes.

Manually Building Protos

Building .pb.go files from the original googleads protos should only be done when updating to a new Google Ads version.

Requirements:

protoc

Build .pb.go protos:

$ make protos