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Method: accounts.update
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Updates a Merchant Center account. Any fields that are not provided are deleted from the resource.
HTTP request
PUT https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/accounts/{accountId}
Path parameters
| Parameters |
merchantId |
string
The ID of the managing account. If this parameter is not the same as accountId, then this account must be a multi-client account and accountId must be the ID of a sub-account of this account.
|
accountId |
string
The ID of the account.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Account.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Account.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
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Last updated 2025-02-25 UTC.
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