Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads

Name: Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads
Author: GeminiGeorge22

by GeminiGeorge22version 1.0.1i★ –iComputer or cloud

Registry nameio.github.GeminiGeorge22/google-ads-transparency-mcp

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Competitor Google ads from the Ads Transparency Center: new, running and stopped, with shown dates.

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UsageiVery new↓ 149/wk · ★ –

What you can do with it

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Connection: Computer or cloud
Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
Category: Marketing & social media
You need to fill in: APIFY_TOKEN, Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 3 of 3 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
You fill in yourself: APIFY_TOKEN, Authorization

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet
PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Or run it on your computer

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-ads-transparency": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "google-ads-transparency-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http google-ads-transparency 'https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper' --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Or run it on your computer

claude mcp add google-ads-transparency --env APIFY_TOKEN=your-value -- uvx google-ads-transparency-mcp-server

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-ads-transparency": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-ads-transparency": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "google-ads-transparency-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "google-ads-transparency": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or run it on your computer

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "google-ads-transparency": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "google-ads-transparency-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

APIFY_TOKEN secret required env
Your own Apify API token. Needed for tools/call; tools/list works without it.
Authorization secret HTTP header
Optional if you use Apify OAuth. Otherwise: Bearer (your own Apify API token).

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

The server asks you to sign in before it lists its tools.

Basic checksi

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✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account GeminiGeorge22, which owns the repo
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
✓ Pass
Endpoint responds
Responded in 66 ms (HTTP 401)
✓ Pass
Sign-in with OAuth
Declares OAuth sign-in, so your AI app can take you to log in
… Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Not checked yet; we read the tool list when we check the endpoint

Compared with others in Marketing & social mediai

More stars than 0% of the other 3597 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 86% of the other 3597 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 3597 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads safe?

It passed 3 of 3 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: APIFY_TOKEN, Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

Either way works: install it on your computer or connect to the cloud version.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.1) reached the registry 4 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

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Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads

An MCP server that tells your AI assistant which Google ads a competitor is running. Give it a website domain (nike.com), a Google advertiser ID, an Ads Transparency Center link or an exact advertiser name, and it returns the ads Google lists for that advertiser: which are new, still running or stopped in your look-back window, with first and last shown dates, days shown and links to each ad. Filter by country, or leave it on "anywhere". No Google login and no proxy setup.

Built on the public Google Ads Transparency Center data, via the Apify Actor Google Ads Transparency Scraper.

Apify Store: https://apify.com/publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper
MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper

Example prompts

"Which Google ads did nike.com start running in the last 7 days in the US?"
"Compare the ads running right now for hubspot.com and salesforce.com."
"List the ads my competitor stopped this month, with first and last shown dates."

Tool

Tool	Input	Output
`publicrecords--google-ads-transparency-scraper`	`targets` (domains, advertiser IDs, Transparency Center links or names), `sinceDays`, `region`, `statuses`	One row per ad: advertiser, ad ID, format (text, image, video), status, first and last shown dates, days shown, target domain and the ad link

The full input schema is in tools.json, generated from the Actor's public input schema and checked for drift daily.

MCP endpoint

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper

Transport: Streamable HTTP (hosted by Apify, see https://docs.apify.com/mcp).

Auth

Sign in with Apify OAuth when your client prompts you, or send the header Authorization: Bearer where is your own Apify API token. Never commit a real token.

Client setup

Claude

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http google-ads-transparency "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper"

Claude Desktop / claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the MCP endpoint URL above.

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json:

"mcpServers": { "google-ads-transparency": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper" } } }

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json:

"servers": { "google-ads-transparency": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=publicrecords/google-ads-transparency-scraper" } } }

To use a token instead of OAuth, add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer " } next to "url".

Disclosure: I maintain this Actor.

Local stdio server (open source)

This repo also ships a small MCP server in src/ for clients that only run local stdio servers. It answers initialize and tools/list locally from tools.json, which is generated from each Actor's public input schema and checked for drift in CI and weekly, so any client or directory can inspect the tools with no token. tools/call is forwarded to the hosted Apify MCP endpoint above with your own APIFY_TOKEN; without a token a call returns a clear error instead of running anything. The token is only sent in the Authorization header and is never logged.

"mcpServers": { "google-ads-transparency": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "github:GeminiGeorge22/google-ads-transparency-mcp"], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" } } } }

Or from a clone:

git clone https://github.com/GeminiGeorge22/google-ads-transparency-mcp.git

cd google-ads-transparency-mcp && npm install APIFY_TOKEN=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN node src/server.js

Optional env: APIFY_ACTORS (comma-separated subset of the Actors above) and APIFY_MCP_URL (full endpoint override).

Tests run against an in-memory mock server, with no network and no token: npm test. Requires Node.js 18+.

Python (uvx/pip)

A matching Python version of this server lives in python/, built on the official mcp Python SDK: same tools, same APIFY_TOKEN, same hosted endpoint. Requires Python 3.10+.

"mcpServers": { "google-ads-transparency": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["google-ads-transparency-mcp-server"], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" } } } }

Or with pip: pip install google-ads-transparency-mcp-server, then run google-ads-transparency-mcp-server. Python tests: cd python && pip install -e ".[test]" && env -u APIFY_TOKEN python -m pytest.

Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

Or run it on your computer

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Marketing & social mediai

Common questions

Alternatives

MCP YouTube Transcript

Google Analytics MCP

BibiGPT YouTube Video Summarizer

README from the maker

Google Ads Transparency MCP: Competitor Ads

Example prompts

Tool

MCP endpoint

Auth

Client setup

Claude

Cursor

VS Code

Local stdio server (open source)

Python (uvx/pip)

See also