Method: accounts.authinfo

AI-generated Key Takeaways

This endpoint returns information about the authenticated user, such as account identifiers and kind.
Requires authorization with the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content scope.
The response includes account identifiers, which can vary depending on the type of account (individual, aggregator, or subaccount).
AccountIdentifier object provides details about the aggregator ID and merchant ID associated with the user.

Returns information about the authenticated user.

GET https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/accounts/authinfo

The request body must be empty.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{ "accountIdentifiers" : [ { object ( `AccountIdentifier` ) } ] , "kind" : string }

Fields

accountIdentifiers[]

The account identifiers corresponding to the authenticated user.

For an individual account: only the merchant ID is defined
For an aggregator: only the aggregator ID is defined
For a subaccount of an MCA: both the merchant ID and the aggregator ID are defined.

kind

string

Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string " content#accountsAuthInfoResponse ".

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview .

JSON representation
{ "aggregatorId" : string , "merchantId" : string }

Fields

Fields
`aggregatorId`	`string` The aggregator ID, set for aggregators and subaccounts (in that case, it represents the aggregator of the subaccount).
`merchantId`	`string` The merchant account ID, set for individual accounts and subaccounts.

aggregatorId

string

The aggregator ID, set for aggregators and subaccounts (in that case, it represents the aggregator of the subaccount).

merchantId

string

The merchant account ID, set for individual accounts and subaccounts.