Doubleclick bid manager api authorization

Question

I am having trouble authenticating myself using the DoubleClick Bid Manager API I have set up a service account as per Google's instructions and am using the Google APIs PHP client library. Following the documentation, my code looks like this:

require_once 'Google/autoload.php';

$client_email = 'myemail.com';

$private_key = file_get_contents('myfilename.p12');

$scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/doubleclickbidmanager'];

$credentials = new Google_Auth_AssertionCredentials(
    $client_email,
    $scopes,
    $private_key,
);




$client = new Google_Client();

$client->setAssertionCredentials($credentials);

if ($client->getAuth()->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
    $client->getAuth()->refreshTokenWithAssertion();
}

$service =  new Google_Service_DoubleClickBidManager($client);
$response = $service->queries->listqueries();

The last line provokes an error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Google_Service_Exception' with message 'Error calling GET https://www.googleapis.com/doubleclickbidmanager/v1/queries: (403) You are not authorized to use DoubleClick Bid Manager API. Please contact bidmanager-support@google.com.'

I have emailed them but I'm not sure if there is any one there providing support for technical questions. I've reread the documentation, I can't see where I am going wrong. If anyone has been through this before or has any pointers, they will be much appreciated!!!

Many thanks

PS I set up my API access earlier this week. Again, I followed the instructions in the documentation and received the last confirmation email from Google regarding setup, so everything should be good to go in that respect as well

Either its your private credentials thats incorrect, else, your account is not allowed to do that query. Its probably nothing wrong with the code. — Kishor, May 21 '15 at 09:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 02 '15 at 21:52

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The DoubleClick Bid Manager does not support Service Accounts. They use the user's permissions in DBM to define the permissions for the API requests, so a user based authentication is required.

answered Jun 02 '15 at 21:52

pxlator

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That is not true. I am using `service account` with `DoubleClick Bid Manager` and I am getting successful responses. – Gilg Him Jul 24 '19 at 13:18
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Things have changed since this was answered 4 years ago. – pxlator Aug 12 '19 at 23:32

Gilg Him · Answer 2 · 2019-07-24T14:24:15.510

You probably need to add the user email of the service account to DV 360 with read/write role.

This is how I did it using google api client library for ruby:

1- First create a GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable:

$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS='[Path to your client_secrets.json]

2- instatiate a service variable to connect to the api and assign the authorization to it:

scopes = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/doubleclickbidmanager'
authorization = Google::Auth.get_application_default(scopes)
service = Google::Apis::DoubleclickbidmanagerV1::DoubleClickBidManagerService.new
service.authorization = authorization
service.authorization.fetch_access_token!

# This line would return results from the api
service.download_line_items

Notice that the email account in the .json secrets file must be added as a user with read/write role on DV360

Doubleclick bid manager api authorization

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