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Method: accounts.updatelabels
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Updates labels that are assigned to the Merchant Center account by CSS user.
HTTP request
POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/accounts/{accountId}/updatelabels
Path parameters
| Parameters |
merchantId |
string
The ID of the managing account.
|
accountId |
string
The ID of the account whose labels are updated.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of AccountsUpdateLabelsRequest.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:
| JSON representation |
{
"kind": string
} |
| Fields |
kind |
string
Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "content#accountsUpdateLabelsResponse".
|
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.
AccountsUpdateLabelsRequest
| JSON representation |
{
"labelIds": [
string
]
} |
| Fields |
labelIds[] |
string
The IDs of labels that should be assigned to the account.
|
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Last updated 2025-02-25 UTC.
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