Apple Ads | Operate As Docs

Connect your client's Apple Ads with a key they paste, and call its API through Operate As.

Website: ads.apple.com
Connects by: Pasting a Private key
Category: Marketing
Services: 1
Tools: Pass-through only

Service	Key	Base URL
Apple Ads	`apple-search-ads`	`https://api.searchads.apple.com/api/v5`

Your client also types their client id (In Account Settings, API, beside the public key, starting SEARCHADS.) and team id (In Account Settings, API, starting SEARCHADS.) and key id (In Account Settings, API, beside the public key) and organization id (Under your account name, at the top right of Apple Ads).

Connecting

Your client makes a Private key in their Apple Ads settings and pastes it on their link. Operate As tries it with Apple Ads before saving it, and stores it encrypted. See Services connected with an API key.

Check they're connected

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl https://api.operate.as/v1/me/clients \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

[
  {
    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",
    "name": "Miller Dental",
    "services": [
      "apple-search-ads"
    ]
  }
]

[  {    "id": "6f1c2a7e-...",    "name": "Miller Dental",    "services": [      "apple-search-ads"    ]  }]

Permissions

What the client reads	Permission it asks for
Use the Apple Ads key you paste, with only the access you gave that key	Chosen on the provider's screen

Pass-through

Apple Ads has no ready-made tools yet. Call any endpoint of its API through Operate As instead, with the client's access attached.

Add the client

In Clients, add your client and select Apple Ads. Then send them their link.

Your client connects

They paste a Private key from their Apple Ads settings.

Find the endpoint

Pick the call from Apple Ads's own API docs. Your path is everything after https://api.searchads.apple.com/api/v5.

Send it through Operate As

Use the client's ID, the service key apple-search-ads and that path. Your Operate As key goes in Authorization; the client's access is added for you.

See Pass-through requests for the full request and response format.

Call any endpoint

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../apple-search-ads/campaigns" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

curl "https://api.operate.as/v1/clients/6f1c2a7e-.../apple-search-ads/campaigns" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPERATE_AS_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own response"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 200,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own response"  },  "encoding": "json"}

When access ends

A key works until your client deletes it in Apple Ads. They can paste a new one on the same link at any time, and your workflows carry on without changes.

See Keeping access alive and Removing access.

Calls answer, once the key is deleted

{
  "status": 401,
  "data": {
    "…": "the service's own error"
  },
  "encoding": "json"
}

{  "status": 401,  "data": {    "…": "the service's own error"  },  "encoding": "json"}