Does Google Ads have an MCP server?
Google Ads maintains an official MCP server.
Self-hosted (stdio or Cloud Run) and read-only — account listing, GAQL search, resource metadata.
- Access
- Local server
- Repository
- googleads/google-ads-mcp
- Maintainer
- Google Ads
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Language
- Python
- Stars
- 844
- Last commit
- today
- Category
- Marketing
Runs on your machine over stdio, launched by your MCP client.
Add it from the terminal, then restart your session:
claude mcp add googleads -- npx -y <package-from-readme>Swap in the exact package and flags from the repo README — most servers need an API key passed as an environment variable.
Add --scope user to make it available in every project.
Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add the server to claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"googleads": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "…"
}
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop after saving.
Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for
every project:
{
"mcpServers": {
"googleads": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
],
"env": {
"API_KEY": "…"
}
}
}
}A green dot in Settings → MCP means it connected.
Add to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"googleads": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"<package-from-readme>"
]
}
}
}Then pick the server from the tools menu in Copilot's agent mode.
Does Google Ads have an official MCP server?
Yes. Google Ads maintains an official MCP server. The source lives at googleads/google-ads-mcp on GitHub.
How do I connect Google Ads to Claude?
Run the server locally and register it in Claude's MCP config. In Claude Code that's a single "claude mcp add" command; in Claude Desktop you add it to claude_desktop_config.json.
How is this verdict verified?
The Google Ads API team open-sourced the official server at googleads/google-ads-mcp (announced Oct 2025), documented in the developer toolkit on developers.google.com. GitHub metadata is refreshed every six hours.
The Google Ads API team open-sourced the official server at googleads/google-ads-mcp (announced Oct 2025), documented in the developer toolkit on developers.google.com.
- github data refreshed 2026-08-11, then every 6 hours
- vendor docs verified on 2026-08-10
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