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Set up Google Ads MCP in VS Code

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

1

Locate the config file

VS Code reads MCP server configuration from the following file:

.vscode/settings.json → mcp section

Create this file if it does not already exist. For VS Code, this is inside your workspace .vscode/settings.json file under the mcp section.

2

Add the configuration

Add the following to your VS Code config file:

json
{
  "servers": {
    "google-ads-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "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"
      }
    }
  }
}
3

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

4

Verify it works

Restart VS Code. 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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