LinkedIn Ads MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the LinkedIn Marketing API. Read campaigns, pull analytics, create campaign groups + campaigns, flip statuses — all from any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, or your own agent).

There's no official LinkedIn MCP. This fills the gap with a thin, correctness-first wrapper that handles LinkedIn's quirky restli encoding rules so you don't have to.

Maintained by Nuraveda Lab as open-source tooling. Free to use, modify, and redistribute under the MIT License.

Why this exists

If you've tried calling LinkedIn's /rest/adAnalytics endpoint by hand you've probably hit walls like:

• Commas in fields= get URL-encoded by default HTTP clients → 400 not present in schema
• URN colons inside accounts=List(urn:li:sponsoredAccount:NNN) need to be %3A but date-tuple colons must stay literal
• Partial updates need X-RestLi-Method: PARTIAL_UPDATE or they get silently ignored
• runSchedule.start must be ≥ now-ish, totalBudget.amount must be ≥ $100
• New campaigns need politicalIntent (LinkedIn's EU political-ad declaration)

This server has all those rules already encoded.

Install

pip install linkedin-ads-mcp
# or:
uv add linkedin-ads-mcp

From source:

git clone https://github.com/Nuraveda/linkedin-ads-mcp.git
cd linkedin-ads-mcp
uv pip install -e .          # or: pip install -e .

On PyPI as linkedin-ads-mcp. The prior package name glitch-grow-linkedin-ad-mcp (v0.1.1) is legacy and frozen — use linkedin-ads-mcp going forward.

OAuth setup (self-host path)

1. Create a LinkedIn app at https://www.linkedin.com/developers/apps.

2. On the Products tab, request Advertising API (auto-approved if you have an active Campaign Manager account).

3. Run any OAuth flow that grants the scopes r_ads, rw_ads, r_ads_reporting — for example:

   https://www.linkedin.com/oauth/v2/authorization?response_type=code
     &client_id=$YOUR_CLIENT_ID
     &redirect_uri=$YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
     &scope=r_ads%20rw_ads%20r_ads_reporting
   

4. Exchange the code for tokens; save the access + refresh tokens.

5. Copy .env.example to .env and paste them.

Run

# stdio (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, etc.)
linkedin-ads-mcp

# SSE on :8000
linkedin-ads-mcp --transport sse --port 8000

Claude Desktop config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "linkedin-ads": {
      "command": "linkedin-ads-mcp",
      "env": {
        "LINKEDIN_CLIENT_ID": "...",
        "LINKEDIN_CLIENT_SECRET": "...",
        "LINKEDIN_REFRESH_TOKEN": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools

Read

Write

All write tools default to DRAFT so nothing goes live by accident. Promote a group → ACTIVE first, then promote campaigns → PAUSED → ACTIVE in two explicit steps.

Multi-tenant pattern

LinkedIn has no MCC, but Campaign Manager has equivalent "Manage Access" sharing. To run this MCP across multiple advertisers:

1. Each client adds your OAuth user as CAMPAIGN_MANAGER on their ad account (Campaign Manager → Account Settings → Manage Access).
2. After they accept, list_ad_accounts() returns their account.
3. Pass that account_id to any tool call. One OAuth dance, N advertiser accounts — same model as the Google Ads MCC pattern.

Status

Read API + write API for groups + campaigns are battle-tested in production. Sponsored-creative creation (image/video upload via initializeUpload → bind to /rest/creatives → attach to a campaign) reuses a proven /rest/documents + /rest/posts upload pattern; porting it to the sponsored-ad surface is on the roadmap. PRs welcome.

License

MIT. Free to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell — for any purpose, commercial or not. No strings attached.

Versions 0.3.0–0.3.x were released under FSL-1.1-MIT. As of 0.4.0 the project is MIT — the copyright holder (Nuraveda Lab) relicenses it as MIT going forward, so anyone can use it, including in a commercial product.

About

Built and maintained by Nuraveda Lab as open-source tooling. Hardened against real LinkedIn Marketing API behavior in production. If you hit a restli encoding edge case we missed, open an issue with the offending URL and we'll codify the fix.