Hi, I apologize for the delay, I wanted to research this and make sure I had the full answer. Product Extensions cannot be created via the API at this time - they must be added via the UI. This blog post explains this in more detail: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2011/02/discover-v201008-product-ads-and.html
The blog post also explains how product criteria and ads can be created via the API. When originally launched, it was limited to a subset of developers but has since been opened to anyone. (it's possible that certain countries may not be able to use this, but we don't have a list handy). - Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Monday, June 18, 2012 11:00:45 AM UTC-4, API2Go wrote: > > Thank you for the response Kevin. However, we are already a developer with > commercial applications for product feeds and adword manipulation. We are > trying to complete an application which aids our merchants/clients in > Product Listing Ads - which we are not really having any difficulty with > either. However, when working manually (not through the api) we simply link > our merchant account to our adwords account and then choose that account > when setting up a PLA campaign - the question is "what is the best way to > do this via the API instead of manually". I don't think the links below > hold any of these answers. Sorry for any confusion in my question - > > On Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:03:39 AM UTC-4, Kevin Winter wrote: > >> Hi, >> This discusses how to set up the Merchant Center Datafeed: >> http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188479 >> >> And this talks about product listing ads: >> http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2456103&from=1306912&rd=1 >> >> We don't currently have any code examples showing how this is done via >> the API. The API access is currently only available to a limited number of >> developers - please contact your CSR for more information: >> http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8206&ctx=go&&contactus=1 >> >> - Kevin Winter >> AdWords API Team >> >> On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:51:40 AM UTC-4, API2Go wrote: >>> >>> Actually I have a two part question - what is the best way to link the >>> Merchant Center to the appropriate adwords account via the API and how >>> should we enable the adwords campaign to access the merchant center via the >>> API? >> >> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
