Approve links

AI-generated Key Takeaways

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• Google is launching a new Merchant API, which is the future of the Content API for Shopping.

• You can learn more about the Merchant API and its benefits on the Google Ads Developer Blog.

• Merchants can programmatically approve account link requests from partners using the accounts.link method.

• When approving link requests, merchants have the flexibility to approve only specific services within the request, leaving others pending.

After a link request has been sent by a partner, the receiving merchant must approve the link before it becomes active. This is normally done by approving the request in the Partnerstab of Google Merchant Center. However, links can also be approved programmatically by using the accounts.link method.

Example

To approve the link sent from partner 123456789 in the Requesting links example , the client merchant 98765 can send an approve action with linkedAccountId set to partner ID 123456789 .

Note that the services list only contains one of the two originally requested services in the example request . This selectively approves the shoppingAdsProductManagement service, and leaves the request to link the shoppingActionsOrderManagement service in pending status.

  POST 
  
 https 
 : 
 //shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/98765/accounts/98765/link 
 { 
  
 "linkedAccountId" 
 : 
  
 "123456789" 
 , 
  
 "linkType" 
 : 
  
 "eCommercePlatform" 
 , 
  
 "services" 
 : 
  
 [ 
 "shoppingAdsProductManagement" 
 ], 
  
 "action" 
 : 
  
 "approve" 
 } 
 

The next section describes how to remove existing links.