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title: "Google Ads API Quickstart - Air Market"
description: "You are starting with the Google Ads API and stuck somewhere between credentials, tokens, and a first script that returns nothing useful. This takes you through the setup and names the errors you are…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/google-ads-api-quickstart"
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[Air Market](/) / [Marketing](/category/marketing) / Google Ads API Quickstart

Skill by [Google](/@google)

# Google Ads API Quickstart

Get your first Google Ads API call to actually return something

## What this does

You are starting with the Google Ads API and stuck somewhere between credentials, tokens, and a first script that returns nothing useful. This takes you through the setup and names the errors you are likely to hit. Reach for it on day one, or when a token or permission error will not go away.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Set up Google Ads credentials and a developer token
- Pick a client library or go with REST
- Write a first script that pulls campaigns

## Information

**Google Ads API Quickstart at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Google](/@google) |
| Category | [Marketing](/category/marketing) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Size | 52 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [google/skills](https://github.com/google/skills/tree/b1287583ccfaa32e65b34f274e62ebdab4cb35eb/skills/ads/google-ads-api-quickstart) |
| GitHub stars | 18,649 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 8,437, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Google Ads API Quickstart and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Google Ads API Quickstart's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | b1287583ccfaa32e65b34f274e62ebdab4cb35eb |
| Content hash | ff4c3bf673af13bc59a8ec8e99fc2bea34354b682db923149162a39a1f4e9e52 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/google/skills/blob/b1287583ccfaa32e65b34f274e62ebdab4cb35eb/skills/ads/google-ads-api-quickstart/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Google Ads API Quickstart](/security/google-ads-api-quickstart)

## About Google Ads API Quickstart

This is the getting-started path for the Google Ads API: setting up credentials, choosing between the client libraries or REST, configuring your environment, and running a script that retrieves campaigns.

It also troubleshoots the setup errors that stop people early, including USER_PERMISSION_DENIED, login_customer_id problems, and DEVELOPER_TOKEN_NOT_APPROVED.

Reach for it when you are asking how to get started, setting up credentials or developer tokens, writing a quickstart script, or staring at one of those errors.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/dotnet.md - reference
- references/java.md - reference
- references/perl.md - reference
- references/php.md - reference
- references/python.md - reference
- references/rest.md - reference
- references/ruby.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Google Ads API Quickstart safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Google Ads API Quickstart and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit b1287583ccfa, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/google-ads-api-quickstart.

### How do I install Google Ads API Quickstart?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/google-ads-api-quickstart on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/google/skills/tree/b1287583ccfaa32e65b34f274e62ebdab4cb35eb/skills/ads/google-ads-api-quickstart. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Marketing listings](/category/marketing)
- [Everything by Google](/@google)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/google-ads-api-quickstart>