How do I install ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP Server?

Copy the http config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP Server need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: ZUCKERBOT_API_KEY.

What transport does ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP Server use?

ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP Server is reached over HTTP.

When was ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP Server last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-09. 60+ Meta Ads tools for AI agents: audits, campaign management, audiences and CAPI tracking.

ZuckerBot — Meta Ads MCP server

ZuckerBot

The Meta Ads toolkit for AI agents.

Audit your ad account in one message. 50+ tools for account auditing, campaign management, creative analysis, audience building, and conversion tracking. One npx command. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zuckerbot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "zuckerbot-mcp"],
      "env": { "ZUCKERBOT_API_KEY": "zb_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Get API Key (free) · npm · Docs · Website

Why ZuckerBot?

Your agent already writes code, manages files, and searches the web. It should manage your ads too.

ZuckerBot gives any AI agent full Meta Ads capabilities through MCP. No dashboard, no UI to learn, no platform to log into. Your agent installs it, connects your ad account, and gets to work.

What agents can do with ZuckerBot:

Audit your ad account in one message — spend flagged for review, creative fatigue, opportunity score, prioritised action items (free tier included)
Pull campaign performance and spot what's working
Analyse ad creatives and recommend what to test next
Build and launch campaigns with targeting and budget
Create custom and lookalike audiences
Set up server-side conversion tracking (CAPI)
Research competitors, reviews, and market benchmarks
Generate ad creative briefs and copy

How it works

You ↔ Your Agent (Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Cursor, etc.)
                  ↕
            ZuckerBot MCP
                  ↕
         Meta Marketing API

ZuckerBot handles the Meta API complexity. Your agent handles the conversation. You make the decisions.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zuckerbot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "zuckerbot-mcp"],
      "env": { "ZUCKERBOT_API_KEY": "zb_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

OpenClaw

Add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zuckerbot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "zuckerbot-mcp"],
      "env": { "ZUCKERBOT_API_KEY": "zb_live_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Windsurf / Any MCP Client

Same config pattern. ZuckerBot works with any client that supports the Model Context Protocol.

Remote MCP (no install)

Don't want to run anything locally? https://zuckerbot.ai/api/mcp is a hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint serving the same tools.

claude.ai — add it as a custom connector (Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector) and authenticate via OAuth, or pass an Authorization: Bearer zb_live_... header.
Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http zuckerbot https://zuckerbot.ai/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer zb_live_..."

Any Streamable HTTP client — point it at https://zuckerbot.ai/api/mcp with your API key as a bearer token.

CLI (for humans)

npm install -g zuckerbot-mcp

zuckerbot preview https://your-business.com
zuckerbot meta status
zuckerbot create https://your-business.com --budget 5000 --objective leads

Tools (50+)

Audit & Licensing (2)

Tool	What it does
`audit_account`	Full read-only account audit: spend flagged for review against each campaign's objective, creative fatigue, opportunity score (0-100), projected CPL improvement, prioritised action items. Available on every tier — the recommended first call
`redeem_license`	Redeem a lifetime licence code (Dealify/AppSumo) and upgrade all API keys on the account

Setup & Account (7)

Tool	What it does
`quickstart`	Guided setup: check auth, show next steps, recommended tool flow
`meta_status`	Check Meta connection status for your API key
`list_ad_accounts`	List available Meta ad accounts and current selection
`select_ad_account`	Connect a specific ad account
`list_meta_pages`	List Facebook pages and current selection
`select_meta_page`	Set active page for ad delivery
`get_launch_credentials`	Verify all required credentials are set before launching

Campaigns (9)

Tool	What it does
`preview_campaign`	Generate ad preview from a URL (no Meta account needed)
`create_campaign`	Create a campaign draft with strategy, targeting, and creatives
`get_campaign`	Get campaign detail, workflow state, and linked creatives
`approve_campaign_strategy`	Approve tiers and creative angles for an intelligence campaign
`suggest_angles`	Get proposed creative angles and audience tiers for a draft
`activate_campaign`	Temporarily unavailable; intelligence campaigns remain planning-only
`launch_campaign`	Launch one or all variants from a draft on Meta
`pause_campaign`	Pause a campaign, ad set or ad, including spec-built Meta campaigns
`resume_campaign`	Preview and explicitly activate one existing Meta campaign, ad set or ad
`get_performance`	Real-time campaign metrics: spend, leads, CPL, CTR, ROAS

Audiences (6)

Tool	What it does
`create_seed_audience`	Build a custom audience from hashed CAPI users
`create_lookalike_audience`	Create a lookalike from any seed audience
`list_audiences`	List all custom and lookalike audiences
`refresh_audience`	Refresh an audience or sync latest state from Meta
`get_audience_status`	Check audience size, status, and readiness
`delete_audience`	Remove an audience from Meta and ZuckerBot

Creatives (8)

Tool	What it does
`upload_creative`	Upload finished assets and provision paused Meta ads
`get_creative_status`	Check creative generation progress
`creative_analysis`	AI analysis of ad creative performance with recommendations
`creative_qa`	Quality check creatives against Meta ad policies
`generate_briefs`	Generate creative briefs based on performance data
`generate_creatives`*	Generate ad copy and images (or AI video)
`request_creative`*	Create a creative handoff package for production

* Creative image/video generation tools (generate_static_ad, generate_video_ad, get_video_ad_status, generate_creatives, request_creative) are disabled by default — enable them with ZUCKERBOT_ENABLE_CREATIVE_TOOLS=1 in your MCP config env (paid add-on coming). All creative analysis tools stay available.

Conversion Tracking / CAPI (5)

Tool	What it does
`capi_config`	Get or update server-side conversion tracking config
`capi_status`	7-day and 30-day CAPI delivery and attribution stats
`capi_test`	Send a test event through the CAPI pipeline
`sync_conversion`	Send lead quality feedback to Meta's algorithm
`list_pixels`	List and select Meta pixels for conversion tracking

Reporting (2)

Tool	What it does
`get_campaign_insights`	Campaign / ad set / ad-level Meta performance for any campaign in the account (including non-ZuckerBot ones), with deduped lead metrics
`get_account_insights`	Account-wide spend, impressions, CTR, CPM, CPC, and frequency aggregated daily or monthly

get_campaign_insights surfaces three distinct lead figures rather than one collapsed number, each verified against Ads Manager:

Field	Meaning
`meta_result` / `cost_per_meta_result`	Meta's authoritative deduped "Results" for any objective (Ads Manager "Results" column), with `meta_result_type` naming the underlying result (`conversion_lead` for lead campaigns, `offsite_conversion.fb_pixel_complete_registration` / `purchase` for sales). Supersedes the now-deprecated `results` / `cost_per_result`
`meta_leads` / `cost_per_meta_lead`	Deduped on-Meta leads (`onsite_conversion.lead_grouped`) — matches Ads Manager "Meta Leads"
`conversion_leads` / `cost_per_conversion_lead`	CRM-qualified conversion leads (from Meta's `results` indicator `conversion_leads:conversion_lead`) — matches "Conversion leads". Lead-specific (0 for non-lead objectives)
`actions` / `cost_per_action_type`	Full labelled arrays of `{ action_type, value }` (counts) and `{ action_type, value }` (cost in dollars) for every Meta action type
`results` / `cost_per_result`	Deprecated. Objective-resolved result that mis-ranks mixed campaigns. Kept for back-compat — prefer `meta_result` / `cost_per_meta_result`
`leads` / `cpl`	Deprecated. Inflated surface count (`action_type: lead`) that double-counts the instant-form lead and its CAPI echo. Kept for back-compat — prefer `meta_leads` / `conversion_leads`

Costs are derived as spend / count; Meta's cost_per_action_type is non-additive and is never summed. The same fields roll up in summary as total_meta_result / blended_cost_per_meta_result (with meta_result_type), total_meta_leads / blended_cost_per_meta_lead, and total_conversion_leads / blended_cost_per_conversion_lead (with total_leads / blended_cpl deprecated alongside their per-row counterparts).

Portfolios (5)

Tool	What it does
`create_portfolio`	Create an audience portfolio from a template
`launch_portfolio`	Temporarily unavailable; portfolios remain planning/monitoring-only
`portfolio_performance`	Tier-by-tier portfolio performance breakdown
`rebalance_portfolio`	Dry-run or apply budget rebalancing across tiers

Research (3)

Tool	What it does
`research_reviews`	Review intelligence for any business
`research_competitors`	Competitor ad analysis by industry and location
`research_market`	Market intelligence and ad benchmarks

Business Context (4)

Tool	What it does
`enrich_business`	Crawl a website and cache structured business context
`upload_business_context`	Upload text content and extract business insights
`list_business_context`	List uploaded context files and summaries
`select_lead_form`	Select a lead form for campaign targeting

Typical Agent Flow

0. Audit       →  audit_account (how is this account doing today?)
1. Research    →  research_reviews + research_competitors (parallel)
2. Preview     →  preview_campaign (show user what ads look like)
3. Create      →  create_campaign with mode=legacy (launch-ready draft)
4. Review      →  confirm targeting, creative, Meta connection, and budget
5. Launch      →  launch_campaign after explicit approval
6. Monitor     →  get_performance + creative_analysis
7. Pause       →  pause_campaign whenever delivery must stop
8. Optimise    →  sync_conversion + audience tools

Every tool returns a _hint field suggesting the logical next step, so your agent always knows what to do next. Shorthand: legacy create -> review -> launch -> monitor. Intelligence activation and portfolio launch are temporarily unavailable; existing Meta objects use the reviewed resume workflow below for spec-built and external campaigns. MCP names include zuckerbot_enrich_business, zuckerbot_upload_business_context, zuckerbot_get_campaign, zuckerbot_activate_campaign, and zuckerbot_create_seed_audience. zuckerbot_duplicate_ad duplicates one supported ad into an existing ad set in the same ad account — dry-run by default, always created PAUSED, and executes only with an explicit idempotency_key so a retry can never create the ad twice. zuckerbot_upload_ad_asset uploads a brand-new image or video file into the connected ad account's library from a hosted https URL (Meta downloads it directly), returning the image_hash or video_id; poll zuckerbot_get_ad_asset_status until a video is processed. zuckerbot_create_ad then builds one new creative + one new PAUSED ad from that asset in any EXISTING ad set — including live campaigns built outside ZuckerBot — with the same dry-run-first, idempotency_key-gated contract as duplication.

ZuckerBot vs alternatives

	ZuckerBot	Pipeboard	AdAmigo.ai	Supermetrics
What it is	Meta Ads toolkit for agents	Basic Meta MCP	Full ad management agent	Data extraction
Tools	50+	~20	N/A (platform)	N/A (connectors)
Creative analysis	✅ AI-powered	❌	✅ Platform-only	❌
CAPI support	✅ Full pipeline	❌	Partial	❌
Audience builder	✅ Seed + LAL	❌	✅ Platform-only	❌
Works with any agent	✅ MCP standard	✅ MCP standard	❌ Locked to platform	❌
Price	Free tier available	Free	$349/mo/account	$39-299/mo

Pricing

Tier	Monthly	API Calls	Tools
Free	$0	1,000/mo	Read-only (performance, analysis, research, account audit)
Pro	$49 + 0.1% of ad spend	50,000/mo	All tools including campaign management
Scale	$149 + 0.05% of ad spend	500,000/mo	All tools + multi-account + priority rate limits

Free tier gets you started. Pro pays for itself with one optimised campaign.

Get your API key

Lifetime deal

Grabbed a ZuckerBot lifetime licence on Dealify? Codes look like ZB-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX and stack on one account:

Codes	Tier	Ad accounts	API calls
1	Lifetime Tier 1	1	2,500/mo
2	Lifetime Tier 2	3	10,000/mo
3	Lifetime Tier 3	10	30,000/mo

Redeem straight from your agent with the zuckerbot_redeem_license tool ("redeem my ZuckerBot code ZB-...") or in the browser at zuckerbot.ai/start.html. Redeeming upgrades every API key on your account — and if you don't have a key yet, one is minted for you (shown once, so save it).

Example conversation

You: How are my Meta campaigns doing this week?

Agent calls get_account_insights + creative_analysis

Agent: You spent $2,340 across 4 campaigns this week. Your LAL campaign is crushing it at $28 CPL — that's 40% below your account average. But your broad targeting campaign is at $95 CPL and burning budget. The "customer testimonial" creative has a 3.2% CTR vs 1.1% for your product shots. I'd recommend pausing the broad campaign and shifting that budget to the LAL.

You: Do it.

Agent calls pause_campaign + (budget adjustment)

Development

git clone https://github.com/DatalisHQ/zuckerbot.git
cd zuckerbot
npm install
npm run build
npm start

License

MIT

Activate a PAUSED spec-built campaign

Use zuckerbot_resume_campaign (POST /v1/meta/resume) with the real Meta campaign_id (spec-built or external campaigns, not managed ZuckerBot drafts), optional business_id, and entity_level (ad, adset, or campaign). For an ad or ad set, include its entity_id.

Call with dry_run: true (default). Review the returned hierarchy, account currency, budgets, campaign spend cap and ad-set end dates with the user. Amounts are minor currency units; a daily budget is not a total spend cap.
After explicit approval, send the same target with dry_run: false, confirm_spend: true, the returned preview_hash and a unique idempotency_key (8–128 letters, digits, dots, underscores, colons or hyphens).
For a new spec build, repeat for each intended ad, then ad set, then the campaign last. Obtain a fresh preview for each operation. Activation never cascades to other paused objects and preserves all spend controls.
Use zuckerbot_pause_campaign to stop any of these objects. Campaign-level pause accepts the real Meta campaign ID; pass business_id if needed.

Retry the exact request/key after a transport failure. An uncertain outcome requires live status inspection (or pausing) before further activation. A stored successful response describes that operation; replay does not reactivate an object paused afterwards. ACTIVE is configured status; Meta review, schedules, and parent/child status can still prevent delivery. Campaigns with more than 100 ad sets or 100 ads require Ads Manager for this preview workflow.

The hosted MCP receives this tool when its API deployment ships. Installed local MCP clients require a package release containing the tool. The legacy draft launch tool is not used for activating objects created by the spec builder.

Local ad asset uploads

Run the stdio MCP or CLI on the machine containing the files. zuckerbot_upload_ad_asset accepts exactly one of asset_url, an absolute file_path, or files: [{ file_path, label? }] (up to 20). Local files may be JPG/JPEG/PNG (30 MB maximum) or MP4/MOV (4 GB maximum). The client validates all files before a batch starts, transfers them privately in bounded chunks, and returns per-file results in order. No manual public hosting step is needed. Images include image_hash, original width, height, and name; videos retain the existing processing status/polling flow. A failed batch entry does not undo previous library uploads. Hosted MCP cannot access local paths: use a local client or asset_url. Library uploads do not create ads or enable delivery.

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