OAuth Service Account Flow

This guide will walk you through how to set up OAuth2 for API access using your own credentials using service accounts . These steps only need to be done once, unless you revoke or delete your OAuth2 credentials.

Create OAuth2 credentials

Generate a service account ID and a *.JSON file by following the linked instructions, then come back to this page.

Set up client library with JSON file

Configure the following keys in your google_ads_php.ini . See the configuration guide for additional details.

  ; For service account flow. 
 jsonKeyFilePath = "path/to/your/oauth2/key/file.json" 
 scopes = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/adwords" 
 impersonatedEmail = "impersonated.account@email.com"