# microsoft-ads-mcp

> MCP server for the Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) REST API, oriented toward agent-led campaign management and reporting.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/microsoft-ads-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/shinypebble/microsoft-ads-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/shinypebble/microsoft-ads-mcp
- version: 0.4.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: advertising, bing-ads, fastmcp, mcp, microsoft-advertising, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:microsoft-ads-mcp

### Description (declared)

# microsoft-ads-mcp

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An MCP server for the **Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) REST API**, built for agent-led
campaign management and reporting. It exposes a focused set of *useful-work* tools — walk the
campaign tree, create **and edit in place** (rename, repoint Final URLs, tracking templates,
status, bids), manage negative keywords, ad extensions, conversion goals/UET tags, and ZIP
location targeting, run the Bulk API, and pull performance reports that are actually downloaded
and parsed for you — rather than a 1:1 mirror of the API surface.

Built with [FastMCP](https://gofastmcp.com) and the official Microsoft
[`msads`](https://pypi.org/project/msads/) REST SDK (which ships OpenAPI-generated **Pydantic
v2** models). Managed with `uv`, linted/formatted with `ruff`, type-checked with `ty`.

## Why REST / `msads` (not the legacy SOAP `bingads` SDK)

Microsoft is retiring the SOAP API: **new features are REST-only from Oct 1, 2026**, and SOAP
is **fully deprecated on Jan 31, 2027** ([migration guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/guides/migrate-to-rest?view=bingads-13)).
The REST SDK `msads` gives typed Pydantic models, structured HTTP exceptions, and the same
OAuth/`ServiceClient` entry points — so this server is built on it directly.

### SDK quirks worth knowing

- **`msads` is synchronous** (requests/urllib3). Tools here are therefore plain sync
  functions; FastMCP runs them in a worker thread, so the event loop is never blocked. We do
  not wrap the SDK in async.
- **`msads` does not declare its `python-dateutil` dependency**, even though
  `openapi_client` imports it. We pin `python-dateutil` explicitly in `pyproject.toml`.
- The package installs as the `bingads.*` (auth + `ServiceClient`) and `openapi_client.*`
  (models + exceptions) import namespaces — there is no top-level…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- content.marketing (1, declared)
- data.web-search (0.967, derived)
- data.apis (0.814, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- security.identity (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/microsoft-ads-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T06:22:59.792Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/microsoft-ads-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/microsoft-ads-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:microsoft-ads-mcp