Set up Google Ads MCP in Continue

Read-only access to Google Ads campaign data, performance reporting, and account discovery. Official Google implementation.

Locate the config file

Continue reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

~/.continue/config.yaml

Create this file if it does not already exist.

Add the configuration

Add the following to your Continue config file:

yaml

mcpServers:
  - name: google-ads-mcp
    command: python
    args:
      - -m
      - google_ads_mcp
    env:
      GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN: YOUR_GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKEN
      GOOGLE_ADS_LOGIN_CUSTOMER_ID: YOUR_GOOGLE_ADS_LOGIN_CUSTOMER_ID

Set up environment variables

Google Ads MCP requires the following environment variables:

GOOGLE_ADS_DEVELOPER_TOKENRequired

Google Ads API developer token

GOOGLE_ADS_LOGIN_CUSTOMER_IDRequired

Google Ads manager account ID

Verify it works

Restart Continue. Google Ads MCP should appear in your MCP server list with 2 tools available.

This server adds approximately 1,030 tokens to your context window for tool definitions.

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