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Existing OAuth clients that already use the manual copy/paste flow described below will continue
to work until Oct 3, 2022. See theGoogle
Developers blog postfor more details.
Use aloopback
IP addressfor a more reliable, secure, and user-friendly way to obtain
user authorization.
In this episode, we’ll demystify OAuth with the Google Ads API and demonstrate how you can complete the entire OAuth process and make an API request using the Desktop App flow with the REST API in under 20 seconds. We’ll also share some useful scripts to quickly generate access tokens and perform searchStream requests.
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