Issue with Service Account

[willdelcast]

I am trying to migrate my RAdwords code to rgoogleads and keep bumping into the same authentication nightmare. Some context:

Use R in my local computer, but all deployments are in a remote server that runs shiny and RStudio.
I have managed to successfully activate the service account and use it with Python's google-ads.
I have tried the same code with local OAuth2.0 and it works fine. However when I try to do so with the ServiceAccount authentication, following the documentation available at CRAN, I keep getting the same error.

This is a sample of my code:

library(rgoogleads)

gads_auth(path='../serviceAccount.json')
gads_auth(email='[email protected]',
         developer_token = '_my_dev_token_'
)
gads_set_login_customer_id('xxx-xxx-0524')
gads_get_accessible_customers()

And this is the response

<error/rlang_error>
Request had insufficient authentication scopes.
Backtrace:
  1. rgoogleads::gads_get_accessible_customers()
  2. gargle::response_process(ans, error_message = gads_check_errors2)
  8. rgoogleads:::error_message(resp)
  9. rgoogleads:::gads_abort(paste(client_id, msg))
 10. cli::cli_abort(message = message, ..., .envir = .envir)

Also, when I try gads_has_token() it returns TRUE.

[selesnow]

Hi,
Unfortunately, I have no experience with google ads api in Shiny, so I can't help. Perhaps someone else can advise.

Alternatively, you can watch Mark's video, I think the authorization process is similar.

[willdelcast]

Thanks!
My main issue though is with the service account authentication, not shiny. I try to run it on the RStudio server and it fails although the service account json is properly activated (I tested it with Python). I think something in my authentication flow is wrong. Does it make sense to you?

[sshemtov]

@willdelcast I just implemented rgoogleads. Everything worked for most part when running locally in RStudio, then wasn't able to authenticate when running as a script in batch file. Not sure if this will help you but I was able to get it to work by installing the package and running the authentication lines in a terminal where the script will be running from - that way the authentication cache is stored where the script running from instead of local.