Competitor ads, inside Claude.
Connect Claude Code or Claude Desktop to the adsrunning MCP server. Ask for LinkedIn ads and compare ad counts across LinkedIn, Google and Meta.
- Connects with
- MCP server
- Auth
- your API key
- Cost
- same credits as the API
Set up Claude Code
Create an API key
In your adsrunning account, open API and create a key. Your first key comes with 50 credits.
Open .mcp.json
Create the file in your project if needed. Set ADSRUNNING_API_KEY in your shell.
Paste or merge the config
Run Claude Code and try a prompt
claude
{
"mcpServers": {
"adsrunning": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://adsrunning.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${ADSRUNNING_API_KEY}"
}
}
}
}Set up Claude Desktop
Create an API key
In your adsrunning account, open API and create a key. Your first key comes with 50 credits.
Open Claude Desktop’s config
Install Node.js LTS. Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config.
Paste or merge the config
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your adsrunning API key.
Fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop, then try a prompt
{
"mcpServers": {
"adsrunning": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote",
"https://adsrunning.com/mcp",
"--transport",
"http-only",
"--header",
"Authorization:${ADSRUNNING_AUTH}"
],
"env": {
"ADSRUNNING_AUTH": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}Try a prompt
Turn competitor advertising into campaign and outbound ideas.
“Review 10 LinkedIn ads for clay.com. Summarize their pain points, offers and CTAs. Stop after one page.”
“Compare the available ad counts for clay.com and notion.so across LinkedIn, Google and Meta.”
“Review 10 LinkedIn ads for clay.com and draft three outbound email angles based on their messaging.”
Other integrations
All integrations →n8n
REST APICall the adsrunning REST API from n8n. Import a workflow to pull LinkedIn ads into a weekly competitor digest.
OpenCode
MCP serverAdd adsrunning as a remote MCP server in OpenCode. Research competitor LinkedIn ads and compare ad counts with your API key.
Pi
MCP serverConnect from the Pi CLI with your API key. Use adsrunning MCP tools to research competitor LinkedIn ads and ad counts.