The CData Cmdlets Module for Google Ads is a standard
PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with Google Ads.
Below, you will
find examples of using our GoogleAds Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.
Creating a Connection to Your Google Ads Data
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.
$conn = Connect-GAds -DeveloperToken "$DeveloperToken" -ClientCustomerId "$ClientCustomerId"
Selecting Data
Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the CampaignPerformance table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:
Select-GoogleAds -Connection $conn -Table CampaignPerformance | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myCampaignPerformanceData.csv -NoTypeInformation
You will notice that we piped the results from Select-GoogleAds into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties
before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and
Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.
The Connection, Table, and Columns are appended to the results in order to facilitate piping results from one of the
CData Cmdlets directly into another one.