Audience Upload via Ads API

[JBabichJapan]

Please see https://dev.twitter.com/ads/overview/obtaining-ads-account-access for guidance about retrieving OAuth tokens from advertisers. I highly recommend to test your scenario using twurl because you can see the process of obtaining access and storing the tokens in local .twurlrc file and then try to replicate that in code.

Thanks,

John

[Vinoth]

Hi @JBabichJapan,

Thanks for the response.

i would like to create a campaign on behalf of some one who shares only consumer keys. Using that i have to get tokens then do the necessary ads API call.

Note, this will not involve any intermediate browser signin or redirect.

Kindly let me know is it possible via only API calls. if so, let me know the APIs.

Thanks,

[majoritasdev]

Hi @Vinoth. That is not possible. The user has to authorize your application for you to be able to do that on his/her behalf. You cannot do anything on behalf of someone else is (s)he doesn’t specifically give you permission to do so.

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Thanks for the reply.

is this one time authorize?

I guess, Pin based auth will work for us. i will have a look on it and get back to you in case of clarification.

Thanks

[majoritasdev]

Yes, this is one time auth. Well, unless the user revokes access of your app, in which case you would need to re-request permission from the user.

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Thanks.

It works. Able to call other Ads API’s using Advertisers Access and Secret Token.

Step involved:
Step #1: Obtaining a request token
API Call : POST oauth/request_token

Step #2: Redirecting the user
API Call : GET oauth/authenticate – Passed the oauth_token which i got from Step1

Step #3: Converting the request token to an access token
API Call : POST oauth/access_token – Sent both PIN(from the response of Step 2) and oauth_token(From the response of Step 1)

Now i able to call Ads api with my consumer key along with tokens(From the response of step 3)

Reference
https://dev.twitter.com/web/sign-in/implementing

Thanks much.

[majoritasdev]

You’re welcome, @Vinoth! I’m glad it works!

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

I have a small clarification. Pls clarify

Am a ads developer and i able to create campaign for advertiser, but this campaign is not reflected on advertiser ads account instead of it is displaying in my account.

Is this a right behavior or am i missing anything here?

Thanks

[majoritasdev]

It is displaying on your ads account instead of the advertiser’s? Well:
1) you must use the advertiser’s account number
2) the advertiser (his/her twitter account to which the ads account belongs to) must authorize your app which you’re using to interact with the Ads API.

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Thanks for the response. Its working.

Regards

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Am getting “[{“code”:“SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE”,“message”:“Service unavailable due to request timeout; please try the request again later”}]” from twitter sandbox server for all my api calls.

is that twitter sandbox server down? is so how to check? where to inform?

Kindly help me on this.

Thanks

[majoritasdev]

Hi @Vinoth! Yes, it’s possible that the sandbox was down. Do you receive this error for 100% of your calls? Have you retried your calls after a period of time to see if you still get this error?

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Thanks for the response

From early morning 2’c clk to till now am getting this error.

Yes, for all my API’s call, am getting this error.

Is that anything related to account lock? i have tried with different ads account and getting the same issue.

[majoritasdev]

I don’t know what the issue is. I think a Twitter Staff would be most qualified to clarify this. Please post the account ids that aren’t working, so they can check.

@JBabichJapan, can you please help with this? Thank you!

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Thanks. The sandbox server is responding now.

[majoritasdev]

I see. Ok, then. Can you please close this topic by marking your last response as the solution? Thank you.

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

Sure. Will do.

Before that, when i call these sandbox APIs from local, its working but if i do the same via production server its throwing the SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE error.

what may be the issue. am i missing anything here? kindly help me.

[majoritasdev]

I receive too this error, SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE. Maybe you’re making many calls against the production environment?.. And the server becomes unavailable?.. You should just retry the request at a later time, and I think this should work.

[Vinoth]

Hi @majoritasdev,

No. i have not make any call against twitter production server. Am working against twitter sandbox server.

if i make a API call from

1. My local Dev enviroment -> Twitter Sandbox is working

2. My production enviroment -> Twitter Sandbox is not working

Both the case am using same ads account.

[majoritasdev]

Ah, I see, you were referring to your production environment. If you’re using the same app, the same tokens, the same account and the same call with the same parameters it should work. If it doesn’t, make sure to revise all of those details to see what differs.