Update (December 21, 2020 16:50 EST): The issue below also occurred between 8:15 am EST and 9:30 am EST on December 20, and has since been resolved.
Between 8:30 am EST and 12:50 pm EST on December 17 and 8:15 am and 9:30 am EST on December 20, there were outages that may have prevented some users from accessing the Google Ads API & Google Ads scripts. If you were using the Google Ads API or running Google Ads scripts using the beta AdsApp.search feature or the Google Ads scripts beta, then you may have experienced slowness, errors, or timeouts. This issue has been resolved, but please check for any failed requests from these tools during the outage and consider re-running the impacted operations.
If you have any questions, please contact us via the Google Ads API forum or the Google Ads scripts forum.