Hi Chad, Thank you for the reply. I am also a member of the Google Ads API team and let me provide support to your concern.
To answer the below question first, yes, I can confirm that your understanding is correct. But the human interactions that are referring to the other authentication flow are allowing the OAuth2 credentials to access your Google Ads account in the browser and setting manually the refresh token to your client library, not entering password. "Sadly, the system we're building will need to operate without human interaction. Otherwise, I'd love to take the easier option. I understand that any option for connecting to Google Ads via API (beside service accounts) would require a user to interact with the application, even if just to enter a password -- that is correct, yes?" Also, since this is the account that x...@gmail.com that you login while configuring the service account, then to answer your question, this should be added to the test Google account that you want to access via Google Ads API. Let me know if you have further questions. Regards, Ernie John Google Ads API Team ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2ewsYl:ref -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/4MFCf000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000RJ9HPH00T4aQGqUJT92RzB8de13jQw%40sfdc.net.