How to Connect Ad Platforms to Cursor
Access live ad data inside your IDE. Build dashboards, automation scripts, and reporting tools with AI-powered coding assistance.
If you are a developer building marketing tools, reporting dashboards, or automation scripts, you probably spend a lot of time dealing with ad platform APIs. Each platform has its own authentication flow, its own data schemas, its own rate limits, and its own quirks. Just getting Meta's campaign data into a format your code can work with is a project in itself.
Cursor is an AI-powered IDE that supports MCP (Model Context Protocol), which means it can connect to external data sources and use them while helping you write code. By connecting your ad platforms through Ad Superpowers, Cursor gets live access to your Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4, LinkedIn Ads, TikTok Ads, and more — right inside your editor.
This means you can ask Cursor things like "Pull my top 10 Meta campaigns by ROAS and generate a React component that displays them" and it will query your actual data, then write the code. No mock data. No manual API calls. Real data flowing into real code.
This guide walks you through the setup in about 5 minutes. You will need Cursor installed and an Ad Superpowers account (Free plan works for Meta, Google Ads, GA4, and Search Console).
The Old Way
Read API docs. Set up OAuth. Handle token refresh. Write API client. Parse responses. Transform data. Discover schema changed. Fix everything. Repeat for each platform.
The New Way
Open Cursor. Ask it to query your live ad data. Get the data AND the code to work with it — in one conversation.
What You Need
- Cursor IDE installed (macOS, Windows, or Linux) — download from cursor.com
- An Ad Superpowers account (Free plan for Meta/Google/GA4/GSC, Pro for all 8 platforms)
- 5 minutes to configure
Step-by-Step Setup
Create your Ad Superpowers account
Go to app.adsuperpowers.ai and sign up. Connect the ad platforms you want to access from Cursor. The Free plan includes Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4, and Google Search Console. The Pro plan adds LinkedIn, TikTok, Shopify, and Klaviyo.
Get your API key
Navigate to Settings in the Ad Superpowers dashboard. Under "API Keys", generate a new key. Copy both the key and the MCP server URL: https://mcp.adsuperpowers.ai/v1. You will need both for the Cursor configuration.
Configure MCP in Cursor
Open Cursor and go to Settings. Navigate to the MCP or Connections section. Add a new MCP server with the URL https://mcp.adsuperpowers.ai/v1 and your API key for authentication. Save the configuration.
Test the connection
Open a new Cursor chat (Cmd+L or Ctrl+L) and ask: "List my connected ad accounts." If you see your accounts, everything is working. Cursor now has access to all 25 Ad Superpowers tools for the platforms you have connected.
Build something with live data
Now the fun part. Try: "Pull my top 5 Meta campaigns by spend this month and create a TypeScript interface for the data, then build a React component to display them as a table." Cursor will query your actual ad data, infer the types, and generate working code.
Try These Prompts
Once connected, try these prompts to explore your data. Click to copy.
Why developers love MCP for ad data
Every ad platform has its own API. Meta uses the Marketing API with its own field naming conventions. Google Ads uses GAQL (a SQL-like query language). LinkedIn and TikTok each have their own REST APIs with different authentication patterns, pagination styles, and rate limits.
Building integrations with even one of these APIs takes days. Building with all of them takes weeks. And maintaining them as APIs evolve? That is an ongoing tax on your development time.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) changes this. Instead of learning each API, you connect to Ad Superpowers once and get a unified interface to all platforms. When you use Cursor with MCP, you get three things simultaneously:
1. Live data access: Cursor can query your actual ad platform data in real time. No mock data, no stale exports — the same data you would see in each platform's dashboard.
2. AI-powered code generation: Cursor uses the live data to generate code that actually works with your data shapes. No guessing at field names or response schemas.
3. Multi-platform unification: Query Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn data in the same conversation, with the same interface. The Ad Superpowers MCP server normalizes the authentication and connection handling.
This is especially valuable for building internal tools, client dashboards, automated reporting, or marketing data pipelines. Check our setup docs for detailed API documentation.
What you can build
Here are real use cases developers build with Cursor + Ad Superpowers:
Marketing dashboards: Ask Cursor to pull data from multiple platforms and generate React, Vue, or Svelte components that display campaign performance. The data is live, so you can iterate on the visualization with real numbers.
Automated reporting: Build scripts that pull ad performance data on a schedule and format it into reports — CSV, PDF, Slack messages, or email summaries. Cursor writes the data fetching, transformation, and delivery code.
Alert systems: Create monitoring scripts that check for anomalies — budget overspend, ROAS drops, creative fatigue signals, or conversion rate changes. Cursor can query the data and generate the alerting logic.
Data pipelines: Build ETL scripts that pull ad data into your data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL). Cursor generates the extraction logic using MCP tools and the transformation/loading code for your target system.
CLI tools: Build command-line tools for quick ad platform queries. "Give me a Python CLI tool that accepts a date range and returns my top campaigns by ROAS across all platforms" is a single prompt for Cursor.
Agency tools: If you manage ads for multiple clients, build multi-tenant dashboards or reporting tools. Cursor can query data across accounts and help you build client-facing interfaces.
Tips for developer workflows
Getting the most out of Cursor + MCP for marketing data:
Start with data exploration: Before building anything, ask Cursor to describe the available tools and show sample data. "What MCP tools do I have access to? Show me the fields available for Meta campaign data." This helps you understand the data shape before writing code.
Use live data for type generation: Ask Cursor to query data and generate TypeScript interfaces or Python dataclasses from the actual response. This ensures your types match reality, not documentation.
Iterate with real data: When building UI components, ask Cursor to query fresh data each time. "Pull the latest 7 days of campaign data and update the chart component" — real data makes iteration meaningful.
Combine with other MCP servers: If you use other MCP servers in Cursor (for databases, file systems, or other APIs), you can build workflows that pull ad data and immediately store or process it.
Version control your queries: When you find useful prompts, save them in your project. A queries.md file with your common ad data queries becomes a cookbook for your team. See our cookbook for inspiration.
Free vs Pro: The Free plan gives you Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4, and Search Console — enough for most Google/Meta focused projects. The Pro plan adds LinkedIn, TikTok, Shopify, and Klaviyo for full multi-platform coverage. Check our pricing page for details.
Troubleshooting
If Cursor cannot access your ad data:
1. Verify your MCP configuration in Cursor settings. The URL should be exactly https://mcp.adsuperpowers.ai/v1 with your API key as a Bearer token. 2. Check that your API key is valid. You can regenerate it in the Ad Superpowers dashboard under Settings. 3. Make sure you have connected at least one ad platform in the Ad Superpowers dashboard. 4. Restart Cursor after adding or modifying MCP settings. 5. Test with a simple query: "List my connected ad accounts." If this works, the connection is fine. 6. If Cursor does not seem to recognize MCP tools, check that you are using a version of Cursor that supports MCP (check Cursor's release notes for MCP support).
Performance notes: MCP queries go through Ad Superpowers to the underlying ad platform APIs. Most queries return in 2-5 seconds. Large date ranges or complex queries (like full account audits) may take longer. If Cursor times out, try a narrower query.
Rate limits: Ad Superpowers handles rate limiting with the underlying platforms. If you are building scripts that make many rapid queries, consider adding delays between calls or using batch queries where possible.
For more help, visit our troubleshooting docs or the setup documentation for Cursor-specific guidance.
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