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28 read tools · 25 write tools, disabled by default.
Run locally with your own platform credentials and a client that supports stdio MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor. Your requests go directly to the platform. For managed connections, including supported ChatGPT setups, use the hosted option.
What's new
v2.0.1: Native tools and security update · September 20, 2026
- Update native campaign/ad-group validation, budget ownership and exact readback checks.
- Add the native collection-ad tool and preserve private report URL and redirect guards.
- Exclude hosted frozen-file video upload workflows.
- Require Node.js 22.12 or newer and check Node 22/24 in CI.
- Update vulnerable dependencies and regenerate the MCP catalog.
Full changelog · Source synchronization details · All releases
Upgrade notes
Requires Node.js 22.12 or newer. CI covers Node 22 and 24. Version 2.0.1 drops Node 18 and 20 support. Read the current tool schemas before reusing saved arguments. Writes remain optional and require explicit confirmation. Hosted creative integrations and MCP Apps UI are outside this release.
Install this release
This is a GitHub source release. npm and MCP Registry versions are published separately. The commands below select this exact version; unpinned npx examples later in this document select the version currently available on npm.
git clone --branch v2.0.1 --depth 1 https://github.com/get-mcp-ads/pinterest-ads-mcp-server.git
cd pinterest-ads-mcp-server
npm ci
npm run build
Configure your MCP client to run node with the absolute path to dist/cli.js and the platform credentials documented below.
Prefer a managed connection? Use Pinterest Ads with hosted getmcpads. Connect your account, select the data your assistant may access and use the hosted MCP connection. See the site for current features and plans.
What you get
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| 28 read tools | Reporting, campaigns and ad groups, audiences, targeting, keywords, conversions, catalogs, business assets, billing, Pins and trends |
| 25 write tools | Off by default. Campaign and ad group status and budgets, campaign creation. Each one previews before it applies |
| 7 resources | Live catalogues the model can read: reporting columns, attribution windows, creative assets, catalog reporting, surface map, recipes |
| Organic alongside paid | Pin analytics and trends, not just the ad account |
| Privacy by construction | Lead records are not exposed at all, and member identifiers are redacted by default |
Raw column names, on purpose
Pinterest names its reporting columns in its own way, and this server accepts those names
directly rather than inventing friendly aliases on top. A column that exists in the API works
here; one that does not fails immediately rather than being silently translated into
something else.
pinterest://reporting-columns lists what is available, and pinterest_validate_report
checks a request before it runs.
Two protections, and they work differently.
Lead records are never exposed. pinterest_get_lead_assets returns lead form and
subscription configuration, but never the lead export itself, because those rows carry
personal information submitted by end users. This is an exclusion, not a redaction: the data
does not leave Pinterest through this server at all.
Business member identifiers are redacted by default. Member IDs, email addresses and
usernames are replaced before they reach the model when you read members, asset members or
invites. includePersonalIdentifiers: true returns the raw values and defaults to false.
These are your colleagues' addresses, so the default is the safe one.
Getting a token
You need a Pinterest access token with the ads:read scope.
- Create an app in the Pinterest developer portal.
- Note the App ID and App secret.
- Run the OAuth flow while signed in to the account that can access your ad accounts.
Request
ads:read, and ads:write only if you plan to enable writes.
- Keep the access token, and the refresh token if you want the server to renew it.
📖 Pinterest API authentication
You can run with just PINTEREST_ACCESS_TOKEN, but it expires. Supplying
PINTEREST_REFRESH_TOKEN, PINTEREST_APP_ID and PINTEREST_APP_SECRET together lets the
server renew the token itself, which is what you want for daily use.
Run pinterest_health_check as your first call. It verifies the token and lists the ad
accounts you can reach, without printing the token.
Setup
Claude Desktop
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS)
or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinterest-ads": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@getmcpads/pinterest-ads-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"PINTEREST_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
}
}
}
}
Restart Claude Desktop. Ask it: "list my Pinterest ad accounts".
Claude Code
claude mcp add pinterest-ads --env PINTEREST_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-token -- npx -y @getmcpads/pinterest-ads-mcp-server
Cursor
.cursor/mcp.json in your project, same shape as the Claude Desktop config above.
From source
git clone https://github.com/get-mcp-ads/pinterest-ads-mcp-server.git
cd pinterest-ads-mcp-server
npm install && npm run build
cp .env.example .env
npm start
Configuration
| Variable | Default | Meaning |
|---|
PINTEREST_ACCESS_TOKEN | none | Access token with ads:read |
PINTEREST_REFRESH_TOKEN | none | With the two below, lets the server renew the token |
PINTEREST_APP_ID | none | App ID, needed for refresh |
PINTEREST_APP_SECRET | none | App secret, needed for refresh |
PINTEREST_AD_ACCOUNT_ID | none | Optional default, saves passing it on every call |
PINTEREST_ENABLE_WRITES | unset | Set to 1 to register the 25 write tools |
LOG_LEVEL | info | debug, info, warn, error |
Either the access token, or the refresh trio. The server refuses to start with neither.
Writes, and why they preview first
Write tools are disabled by default. Enable them with PINTEREST_ENABLE_WRITES=1, and
grant ads:write on top of ads:read.
When enabled, every write tool returns a preview and changes nothing:
{
"applied": false,
"action": "pinterest_update_adgroup_budget",
"change": { "adAccount": "549…", "adGroup": "268…",
"field": "budget_in_micro_currency", "amount": 50,
"inMicroCurrency": 50000000 },
"message": "Preview only, nothing was changed. Repeat the same call with confirm: true to apply this change to the live account."
}
Only a second call carrying confirm: true touches the live account.
This is deliberate. An assistant composes these calls, and it can pick the wrong ad account,
the wrong campaign, or the wrong order of magnitude on a budget. A mandatory preview makes
the mistake visible before it costs money, and gives a human the stopping point the protocol
does not guarantee on its own.
Two further guardrails:
pinterest_create_campaign always creates the campaign PAUSED. There is no option to
create it active.- Amounts are converted to micro units for you. Pinterest holds money in millionths, so
12.50 in the account currency is
12500000. The preview shows both, so a
factor-of-a-million mistake is visible before it applies. A daily and a lifetime budget
sent together are refused rather than silently resolved.
| Tool | What it changes |
|---|
pinterest_update_campaign_status / pinterest_update_adgroup_status | Pause, reactivate or archive |
pinterest_update_campaign_budget / pinterest_update_adgroup_budget | Daily or lifetime budget |
pinterest_create_campaign | Creates a campaign, always PAUSED |
Every tool is listed below. See server-card.json for complete parameter and output schemas.
28 read tools
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|
pinterest_health_check | Read-only Pinterest Ads health check. |
pinterest_list_ad_accounts | List Pinterest ad accounts accessible to the configured credentials. |
pinterest_get_delivery_metrics | Read Pinterest resources/delivery_metrics. |
pinterest_validate_report | Validate and preview how a Pinterest report will execute. |
pinterest_run_report | Run a read-only Pinterest Ads report. |
pinterest_get_creative_assets | Fetch Pinterest creative assets and period performance when available. |
pinterest_run_catalog_report | Run Pinterest catalog reporting by PRODUCT_GROUP or PRODUCT_ITEM. |
pinterest_get_catalog_inventory | List Pinterest catalog inventory surfaces: catalogs, product groups, product group promotions, and optional product samples. |
pinterest_run_conversion_product_report | Run Pinterest async conversion product reporting by brand, category, brand+category, SKU, or SKU group via reports/brand_category_sku. |
pinterest_list_ad_creatives | List the ad account's ad creatives across every status (the API silently omits ARCHIVED ads unless asked) with their pin media resolved: public i.pinimg.com image URLs up to 1200px, video cover, and video_url when the app is allowed to read it. |
pinterest_get_write_schema | Read the official Pinterest v5 native request schema and Sandbox limitations before composing a write. |
pinterest_get_account_entities | Read Pinterest ad-account entities and configuration. |
pinterest_run_targeting_report | Run live targeting analytics for an ad account, campaigns, ad groups, or ads, broken down by age, gender, location, interest, keyword, audience, placement, device, or other Pinterest targeting types. |
pinterest_get_targeting_options | Read Pinterest's official targeting option catalog for app type, gender, locale, age, location/geo, interest, keyword, or audience. |
pinterest_get_keyword_intelligence | Read assigned targeting keywords, Pinterest country-level keyword metrics, suggested terms, or related terms. |
pinterest_get_audiences | Read audience, customer-list, sharing, and Business-received audience inventory without uploading or changing audience membership. |
pinterest_get_audience_insights | Read aggregated Pinterest Audience Insights for the advertiser's total or engaged audience, Pinterest's total audience, or the scope/type endpoint. |
pinterest_estimate_delivery | Run non-mutating Pinterest planning computations: ad-group audience size, bid floors, or campaign delivery estimates. |
pinterest_get_conversion_setup | Inspect Pinterest conversion measurement configuration: conversion tags, oCPM-eligible/page-visit tags, Event Quality Score, advertiser-defined events, and conversion-deletion request status. |
pinterest_get_catalog_diagnostics | Read deep catalog inventory and diagnostics: catalogs, feeds, feed processing results, item issues, product groups, product counts/products, available filter values, and catalog item lookups. |
pinterest_run_specialized_export | Start or inspect non-mutating Pinterest data jobs for Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), bulk advertiser entity downloads, or catalog diagnostics. |
pinterest_get_lead_assets | Read lead-form definitions and lead subscription configuration. |
pinterest_get_business_assets | Read Pinterest Business Access inventory: employers/linked businesses, assets, members, partners, assigned assets, received audiences, and invites. |
pinterest_get_billing_and_orders | Read billing profiles/invoices, invoice download URLs, order lines, ads-credit discounts, and SSIO account/order status. |
pinterest_get_pin_analytics | Read paid Pin analytics, organic multi/single-Pin analytics, user-account analytics, top Pins, or top video Pins. |
pinterest_get_organic_inventory | Read organic Pinterest content used alongside ads: Pins, boards, Pins on a board, Pin product tags, or search results. |
pinterest_get_trends | Read Pinterest Trends: top growing/monthly/yearly/seasonal keywords by supported region, growing product categories, product-category details, featured topics, or editorial articles. |
pinterest_get_platform_resources | Read Pinterest platform metadata and readiness resources: supported ad-account countries, delivery metric definitions, metrics readiness, lead-form questions, media upload metadata, commerce integration metadata, or the authenticated user account. |
25 write tools
Disabled by default. Calls preview unless explicitly confirmed. Check the configuration and exact schema before use.
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|
pinterest_create_campaign | Create a PAUSED campaign. |
pinterest_update_campaign_status | Update the status of an existing campaign. |
pinterest_update_adgroup_status | Update the status of an existing adgroup. |
pinterest_update_ad_status | Update the status of an existing ad. |
pinterest_update_campaign_budget | Set exactly one daily or lifetime campaign budget in major account currency units. |
pinterest_update_adgroup_budget | Set exactly one daily or lifetime ad group budget in major account currency units. |
pinterest_update_campaign_configuration | Update native campaign settings. |
pinterest_update_adgroup_configuration | Update native ad group settings. |
pinterest_update_ad | Update native ad settings. |
pinterest_create_adgroup | Create a PAUSED ad group with explicit native bidding, targeting, budget and schedule. |
pinterest_create_ad | Create a PAUSED ad from an accessible Pin. |
pinterest_create_product_group_promotion | Create a PAUSED shopping or collections promotion from a catalog product group. |
pinterest_update_product_group_promotion | Update a catalog product group promotion. |
pinterest_create_collection_ad | Create a PAUSED collection with an explicitly selected image/video hero Pin and an accessible catalog product group. |
pinterest_create_board | Create /boards in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_update_board | Update /boards in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_create_pin | Create /pins in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_update_pin | Update a Pin. |
pinterest_register_media | Register media upload; returned upload_url/parameters are not confirmation that a video is uploaded or ready. |
pinterest_create_catalog | Create /catalogs in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_create_catalog_feed | Create /catalogs/feeds in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_update_catalog_feed | Update /catalogs/feeds in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_create_product_group | Create /catalogs/product_groups in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_update_product_group | Update /catalogs/product_groups in the selected advertiser context. |
pinterest_batch_catalog_items | Submit native CREATE/UPDATE/UPSERT/DELETE catalog item operations. |
7 resources
| URI | Contents |
|---|
pinterest://manifest | What this server exposes, and its current mode |
pinterest://reporting-columns | Every reporting column the API accepts |
pinterest://attribution | Attribution windows and their defaults |
pinterest://creative-assets | How creative assets are shaped |
pinterest://catalog-reporting | Catalog-specific reporting columns |
pinterest://surface-map | Which tool covers which part of the API |
pinterest://recipes | Step-by-step workflows |
Security
- The token is never logged, at any log level, or written to disk.
- One host is contacted, and only one:
api.pinterest.com. A test fails the build if a
second host appears in the source.
- No fetch follows a redirect. Every outbound call sets
redirect: "error", so a redirect
cannot forward your token to another host. A test fails the build if any fetch omits this.
- Async report URLs are validated before being fetched. Pinterest returns a download URL
on a host it chooses; that value is data from the API, not something to trust. HTTPS only,
no private or loopback address, no redirect, and no credential attached.
- No telemetry. The server makes no network call other than to Pinterest.
Full policy, including how personal data is handled: SECURITY.md.
Try hosted Pinterest Ads if you want to use this source without operating a local server.
getmcpads also connects advertising, Search Console and GA4 through one MCP URL.
Source availability and plan limits are listed on the site; connecting an account is still required.
- Follow the Pinterest Ads connection guide.
- Select the account or property your assistant may read.
- Connect Claude,
ChatGPT or
Codex.
- Try a read-only review: “Review campaign performance using your selected ad account. State missing data and do not change anything.”
See the current hosted tool catalogue
and pricing before choosing a paid plan.
This Apache 2.0 adapter remains independently useful with your own credentials.
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
Please read SECURITY.md before reporting anything security-related.
Licence
Apache License 2.0. See also NOTICE.
Pinterest is a trademark of Pinterest, Inc.
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Pinterest, Inc.
It is an independent client of a public API.
MCP contracts and desktop bundle
Every tool declares read/write annotations, parameter descriptions and a structured output schema. Successful calls expose the payload as structuredContent.result; errors retain isError: true. The generated server card contains definitions only.
Run npm run bundle -- /path/to/output to build a .mcpb desktop bundle from the current catalog. Credentials are entered locally during installation. Write tools remain disabled unless explicitly enabled.
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