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Download the following tools to complete the remaining steps of this
tutorial.
The Google Cloud CLI
The Google Ads API uses OAuth 2.0 as the authorization mechanism. This tutorial
uses the Google Cloud CLI as a way to perform various OAuth 2.0 authorization
steps. Follow the instructions
to install gcloud CLI.
The instructions for the rest of this guide were verified to work with the
following version of the gcloud tool and might not work with previous versions
due to differences in application behavior or command-line options.
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