First-party app
Google Ads

Google Ads

Read and manage Google Ads accounts: GAQL reporting, campaigns, budgets, ad groups, ads and keywords over the Google Ads API v25 REST interface.

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About

Google Ads ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 14 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.google-ads
Version
0.1.2
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Marketing · Analytics & BI

Overview

Google Ads runs the paid-search and display advertising for a huge share of online marketing spend, and this app puts a workflow directly on top of the account data and campaign controls advertisers use every day. Pull a built-in performance report or write your own query against any resource — campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, customers — and get back exactly the columns you asked for.

On the management side, create and update campaigns and their budgets, and create ad groups. List accessible customers, walk the account hierarchy under a manager login, and list campaigns, ad groups, ads and keywords to build the rest of a workflow around real ids rather than guesswork.

This app covers reporting, campaign and budget management, and account structure — not ad creative authoring, keyword bidding changes, or billing, which stay in the Google Ads UI.

Build with Google Ads

Three routes to the same 14 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Google Ads's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Ad Group

create-ad-group

Create an ad group inside a campaign. Defaults to PAUSED.

Create Campaign

create-campaign

Create a campaign against an existing budget. Defaults to PAUSED so it does not start spending on creation.

Create Campaign Budget

create-campaign-budget

Create a campaign budget. Its resource name is what `create-campaign` needs for `campaignBudget`.

Get Campaign

get-campaign

Read a single campaign by ID, including its budget and bidding configuration.

Get Customer

get-customer

Read the account this call is addressed to — name, currency, time zone, and whether it is a manager or test account.

List Accessible Customers

list-accessible-customers

List the Google Ads accounts this credential can reach directly, as relative resource names.

List Ad Groups

list-ad-groups

List ad groups, optionally narrowed to one campaign, with their bids and status.

List Ads

list-ads

List ads with their type, final URLs, status and policy approval, optionally narrowed to one ad group or campaign.

List Campaigns

list-campaigns

List campaigns with their status, channel type, budget and bidding strategy.

List Customer Clients

list-customer-clients

List the accounts beneath a manager account, at any depth, with their level, currency and time zone.

List Keywords

list-keywords

List keyword criteria with their text, match type, status and quality score. Negative keywords are included by default.

Performance Report

performance-report

Impressions, clicks, cost, CTR and conversions over a date range, for campaigns, ad groups, ads or keywords.

Run GAQL Query

search

Run a raw Google Ads Query Language statement and return one page of rows. The general-purpose read for anything the typed actions don't cover.

Update Campaign

update-campaign

Update a campaign's name, status, budget or schedule. The update mask is derived from the fields you fill in.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Google Ads's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "google-ads-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "create-ad-group",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.google-ads",
        "action": "create-ad-group",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "name": "<name>",
        "campaignId": "<campaignId>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Create Ad Group

    perform
    create-ad-group
  • Create Campaign

    perform
    create-campaign
  • Create Campaign Budget

    perform
    create-campaign-budget
  • Get Campaign

    read
    get-campaign
  • Get Customer

    read
    get-customer

+9 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Google Ads, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Google Ads. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "create-campaign",
  payload: {
    name: "<value>",
    campaignBudget: "<value>",
    advertisingChannelType: "<value>",
    // status: "<value>",
    // biddingStrategy: "<value>",
    // startDateTime: "<value>",
    // endDateTime: "<value>",
    // targetGoogleSearch: "<value>",
    // targetSearchNetwork: "<value>",
    // targetContentNetwork: "<value>",
    // containsEuPoliticalAdvertising: "<value>",
    // additionalFields: "<value>",
    // customerId: "<value>",
    // validateOnly: "<value>",
    // partialFailure: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action create-campaign --payload '{"name":"<value>","campaignBudget":"<value>","advertisingChannelType":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Google Ads — without giving it Google Ads's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.google-ads#create-ad-group",
    "input": {
      "name": "<name>",
      "campaignId": "<campaignId>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Google Ads connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Google Ads's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Google Ads itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

Request MCP access

Health checks

Google Ads declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Google Ads platform status

Open incidents for Google Ads and the Google Ads API on the Google Ads Status Dashboard. Unauthenticated and unsigned.

quota

API quota headroom