# meta-ads MCP Server

MCP server for Meta Marketing API — Facebook & Instagram ad campaign management

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled meta-ads yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### Add billing/transaction history tool

## Feature Request

No tool exists to retrieve billing charges or transaction history for an ad account. This data is available via the Graph API:

```
GET /act_{id}/activities
  ?fields=actor_name,event_time,event_type,extra_data
```

Filter by `event_type = ad_account_billing_charge` to get billing transactions. Each charge includes:

- Transaction ID
- Amount (in cents)
- Currency
- Timestamp

Receipt URLs can be constructed as:
`https://www.facebook.com/ads/receipt/?transaction_id={id}`

## 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp/issues/8) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### upload_video only accepts URLs, not local files

## Feature Request

`upload_video` only accepts a `file_url` (public URL). There is no way to upload a local video file from disk.

Many ad creation workflows start with local media files (recorded videos, generated content). Currently the only option is to host the file somewhere publicly accessible first, then pass the URL.

## Requested Change

Add support for local file uploads to `upload_video`, similar to how `upload_image` is supposed to work. The Meta Graph API supports chunked upload fo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp/issues/7) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### No way to set or remove campaign spend_cap

## Feature Request

There is no tool to set or remove a campaign-level `spend_cap`. This is needed for:

- Setting a maximum lifetime spend on a campaign
- Removing a spend cap to let a campaign run on daily budget only
- Setting account-level spend cap to zero (to freeze an account)

## Requested Change

Either add `spend_cap` to `update_campaign` / `update_ad_account`, or add a dedicated `set_spend_cap` tool.

## Meta API Reference

```
POST /{campaign_id}
  spend_cap=50000  (in cents, so )

P

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp/issues/6) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### create_adset missing promoted_object parameter

## Bug

`create_adset` does not have a `promoted_object` parameter.

OUTCOME_SALES campaigns **require** `promoted_object` on every ad set:

```json
{
  ""pixel_id"": ""1234567890"",
  ""custom_event_type"": ""PURCHASE""
}
```

Without it, ad set creation fails with a blame_field_specs error pointing to `promoted_object`.

## Impact

This is a blocker for creating any ad set under a SALES campaign — the most common e-commerce campaign type.

## Requested Change

Add `promoted_object` parameter (

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### create_campaign missing is_adset_budget_sharing_enabled parameter

## Bug

Campaign creation fails on new ad accounts with:

> Must specify True or False in is_adset_budget_sharing_enabled

The `create_campaign` tool does not expose this parameter, so campaigns cannot be created at all on accounts that require it.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new Meta ad account
2. Use `create_campaign` with name, objective, daily_budget
3. Creation fails with the above error

## Expected Behavior

`create_campaign` should accept `is_adset_budget_sharing_enabled` (or def

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mikusnuz/meta-ads-mcp/issues/4) · 2026-04-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for meta-ads](/mcp/meta-ads/issues).

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