Automate Google Ads Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets for Google Ads are standard PowerShell cmdlets that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Google Ads.

PowerShell Cmdlets or ADO.NET Provider?

The Cmdlets are not only a PowerShell interface to Google Ads, but also an SQL interface; this tutorial shows how to use both to retrieve Google Ads data. We also show examples of the ADO.NET equivalent, which is possible with the CData ADO.NET Provider for Google AdWords. To access Google Ads data from other .NET applications, like LINQPad, use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Google AdWords.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Google Ads data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Google uses the OAuth authentication standard. To access Google APIs on behalf on individual users, you can use the embedded credentials or you can register your own OAuth app.

OAuth also enables you to use a service account to connect on behalf of users in a Google Apps domain. To authenticate with a service account, you will need to register an application to obtain the OAuth JWT values.

In addition to the OAuth values, specify the DeveloperToken and ClientCustomerId.

See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

PowerShell

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module GoogleAdsCmdlets

2. Connect:

   $googleads = Connect-GAds -DeveloperToken "$DeveloperToken" -ClientCustomerId "$ClientCustomerId"

3. Search for and retrieve data:

   $device = "'Mobile devices with full browsers'" $campaignperformance = Select-GAds -Connection $googleads -Table "CampaignPerformance" -Where "Device = `'$Device`'" $campaignperformance

   You can also use the Invoke-GAds cmdlet to execute SQL commands:

   $campaignperformance = Invoke-GAds -Connection $googleads -Query 'SELECT * FROM CampaignPerformance WHERE Device = @Device' -Params @{'@Device'=''Mobile devices with full browsers''}

ADO.NET

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData ADO.NET Provider for Google AdWords\lib\System.Data.CData.GoogleAds.dll")

2. Connect to Google Ads:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.GoogleAds.GoogleAdsConnection("DeveloperToken=MyDeveloperToken;ClientCustomerId=MyClientCustomerId;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH") $conn.Open()

3. Instantiate the GoogleAdsDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Device, Clicks from CampaignPerformance" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.GoogleAds.GoogleAdsDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.device $_.clicks }