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The Google AdWords ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Google AdWords, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Google AdWords data like you would a database - access all kinds of real-time AdWords performance and analysis data through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Viewing Google Ads Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer


How to view Google Ads data in RAD Studio Data Explorer using the CData ODBC Driver for Google Ads.

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData ODBC Driver for Google Ads, you gain access to live Google Ads data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve Google Ads data. This article will walk through connecting to Google Ads using the Data Explorer.

Configure a Connection to Google Ads

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

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.

Connecting to Google Ads Data Using Data Explorer

You can create a simple application for displaying Google Ads data by utilizing the CData FireDAC Components for Google Ads and a new VCL Forms Application:

  1. Open the Data Explorer in RAD Studio and expand FireDAC.
  2. Right-click the ODBC Data Source node in the Data Explorer.
  3. Click Add New Connection.
  4. Enter a name for the connection.
  5. In the FireDAC Connection Editor that appears, set the DataSource property to the name of the ODBC DSN for Google Ads.
  6. Back in the Data Explorer, expand the views for the connection.

  7. Create a new VCL Forms application and drag a view (for example: CampaignPerformance) onto the form.

  8. Select the CampaignPerformanceView object on the form and set the Active property to true.

  9. Right-click on the object, bind visually, and link everything (*) to a new control (TStringGrid).

  10. Arrange the TStringGrid on the form and run the application to see the CampaignPerformance data.