The film demonstrates hosted getmcpads with staged data. Its creative galleries and MCP Apps interface belong to the hosted product. This repository provides the standalone native API tools.

25 read tools · 19 write tools, disabled by default.

Run locally with your own platform credentials and a client that supports stdio MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor. Your requests go directly to the platform. For managed connections, including supported ChatGPT setups, use the hosted option.

What's new

v1.0.1: First standalone release · September 20, 2026

• Create the first runnable standalone server using the reviewed native tool subset.
• Require explicit account IDs, default to read-only, preview writes and preserve native pagination.
• Use fixed X endpoints, bounded responses, timeouts and credential redaction without automatic write retries.
• Require Node.js 22.12 or newer and check Node 22/24 in CI.
• Update vulnerable dependencies and regenerate the MCP catalog.

Full changelog · Source synchronization details · All releases

Upgrade notes

Requires Node.js 22.12 or newer. CI covers Node 22 and 24. Read the current tool schemas before reusing saved arguments. Writes remain optional and require explicit confirmation. Hosted creative integrations and MCP Apps UI are outside this release.

Install this release

This is a GitHub source release. npm and MCP Registry versions are published separately. The commands below select this exact version; unpinned npx examples later in this document select the version currently available on npm.

git clone --branch v1.0.1 --depth 1 https://github.com/get-mcp-ads/x-ads-mcp-server.git
cd x-ads-mcp-server
npm ci
npm run build

Configure your MCP client to run node with the absolute path to dist/cli.js and the platform credentials documented below.

Prefer a managed connection? Use X Ads with hosted getmcpads. Connect your account, select the data your assistant may access and use the hosted MCP connection. See the site for current features and plans.

Configuration

Provide these environment variables through the client's secret configuration:

Variable	Purpose
X_ADS_ACCESS_TOKEN	Your user OAuth 2.0 access token. An app-only bearer token is not sufficient.
X_ADS_ACCOUNT_IDS	Required comma-separated account IDs, restricted to accounts the token may access.
X_ADS_SCOPES	Scopes actually granted to the token. Defaults to ads.read.
X_ADS_ENABLE_WRITES	Defaults to false. Only the exact value true exposes writes.

Obtain your token and Ads Project access using X's official setup guide. Use ads.read for reporting, ads.write for campaign changes and media.write for uploads and media-library writes. Setting X_ADS_SCOPES does not grant permissions. This package accepts a token; it does not run an OAuth browser flow or persist rotating refresh tokens. When the token expires, renew it securely and restart the server.

Safety and coverage

Writes preview by default. Review the exact account, target and parameters before repeating the call with confirm: true. Campaigns and line items are created paused. Activation can spend advertising budget. Media uploads can consume X API credits and are limited to 4 MB. Do not retry a write automatically when its result is uncertain. Read the account and reconcile it first. Selected-account checks apply before dispatch and filter account discovery responses. Unknown arguments are rejected. Native pagination, attribution and monetary _micro fields are preserved. A micro unit is one millionth of the account currency.

This server exposes a reviewed subset of the official API. It does not automatically expose new upstream tools. Native media reads and writes are included. Hosted creative galleries, visual editors and MCP Apps UI are excluded. Use tools/list or server-card.json for exact schemas and the official API reference for provider details.

Hosted option

getmcpads for X Ads manages the hosted connection and account selection. Hosted and source releases can differ. Contact: hello@getmcpads.com.

Development

npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm run build
npm test
npm run catalog

All tests run offline with synthetic responses. No live account is changed.

Tools

Every tool is listed below. See server-card.json for complete parameter and output schemas.

25 read tools

Tool	Purpose
x_ads_list_ads_accounts	List the ads accounts the authenticated user can access
x_ads_list_campaigns	List campaigns for an account
x_ads_get_campaign	Get a single campaign by ID
x_ads_list_funding_instruments	List funding instruments (payment sources) for an ads account
x_ads_list_line_items	List line items (ad groups) for an ads account
x_ads_get_line_item	Get a single line item by ID
x_ads_list_promoted_posts	List promoted posts (promoted tweets) for an ads account
x_ads_list_targeting_criteria	List targeting criteria for an ads account's line items
x_ads_list_account_posts	List posts (tweets) usable for promotion by an ads account
x_ads_list_web_event_tags	List the website conversion event tags (pixels) in an ads account; a tag's id is what a conversion line item takes as its primary_web_event_tag
x_ads_list_line_item_placements	List valid placement combinations per line item product type
x_ads_get_account_stats	Get synchronous analytics (impressions, engagements, spend) for an ads account
x_ads_get_active_entities	List which ads entities had metrics change in a time window (use before requesting account stats)
x_ads_get_campaign_reach	Get reach and average-frequency metrics for campaigns
x_ads_search_targeting_interests	Search targetable interest categories by name.
x_ads_search_targeting_locations	Search targetable locations by name.
x_ads_list_cards	List the cards in an ads account
x_ads_get_card	Get a single card by ID
x_ads_list_media_library	List the media library objects in an ads account
x_ads_get_media_library_item	Get a single media library object by media key
x_ads_get_promoted_post	Get a single promoted post by ID
x_ads_get_targeting_criterion	Get a single targeting criterion by ID
x_ads_list_post_previews	Get rendered HTML previews for published or scheduled posts
x_ads_get_web_event_tag	Get a single website conversion event tag by ID
x_ads_get_media_upload_status	Read processing status of an upload owned by the connected X user.

19 write tools

Disabled by default. Calls preview unless explicitly confirmed. Check the configuration and exact schema before use.

Tool	Purpose
x_ads_create_campaign	Create a campaign in an ads account.
x_ads_update_campaign	Rename a campaign or pause it (entity_status=PAUSED).
x_ads_activate_campaign	Activate a campaign (set entity_status=ACTIVE).
x_ads_create_line_item	Create a line item (ad group) under a campaign.
x_ads_update_line_item	Update a line item's bid, budget, name, schedule, placements, goal, pacing, audience expansion (set audience_expansion=EXPANDED to turn on Optimized Targeting) or entity_status.
x_ads_activate_line_item	Activate a line item (set entity_status=ACTIVE).
x_ads_promote_post	Attach post(s) to a line item as its ad creative(s).
x_ads_add_targeting_criterion	Add one targeting criterion to a line item (call once per criterion).
x_ads_remove_targeting	Remove a targeting criterion from its line item (undo a targeting mistake).
x_ads_create_ad_post	Compose a promoted-only ("nullcasted") post to use as an ad creative.
x_ads_create_card	Create a card from a JSON components payload.
x_ads_delete_card	Delete a card from an ads account.
x_ads_create_media_library_item	Register an existing media key as a named item in the account's media library.
x_ads_delete_media_library_item	Delete a media library object from an ads account Preview by default.
x_ads_update_media_library_item	Update a media library object's metadata (e.g. name, title, description) Preview by default.
x_ads_create_web_event_tag	Create a website conversion event tag (pixel); the returned id can be set as a line item's primary_web_event_tag Preview by default.
x_ads_delete_web_event_tag	Delete a website conversion event tag Preview by default.
x_ads_update_web_event_tag	Update a website conversion event tag Preview by default.
x_ads_upload_media	Upload an image, GIF or MP4 clip to X.

License

Apache License 2.0. See NOTICE.

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