Anyone using Ads API with Claude Code or Codex?

[pra__bhu]

yeah i’ve been using claude code + ads api for a few workflows and it’s been pretty useful once you get the auth and rate limiting sorted
most practical use cases i’ve found:
∙ account audits — pulling campaign/adgroup/keyword performance data, then having claude analyze patterns (wasted spend, bid strategy mismatches, low QS keywords dragging down ad groups). way faster than doing it manually in the UI
∙ bulk operations — making changes across large keyword lists or ad groups that would take forever in editor. things like applying bid adjustments by device/location based on performance thresholds
∙ automated reporting — scheduled pulls of performance data into sheets with anomaly flagging. stuff like “alert me if CPA spikes more than 30% week over week on any campaign”
the ads api has decent coverage for read operations. write operations (making actual changes) need more care — i’d recommend always building a dry-run/preview step before any mutation goes live
codex is fine for boilerplate api code but claude handles the “figure out what’s wrong with this account” reasoning layer better in my experience
what kind of tasks are you trying to automate?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[NCTRNL2]

I manage a team that runs over 150 client ad accounts and I built a next.js/react application that is catered toward what my team needs to use throughout the day.

* Build New Accounts
* Bulk-dismiss Ad Recommendations (Seriously one of the reasons I even started messing with this)
* Monitoring of any ad disapprovals (mainly “Eligible (Limited)”) because we’re mainly in the medical space.
* Pull data for custom reporting both for internal and customer-facing reports
* Build new ad campaigns/ads/keywords using LLM Agents

It’s effectively my monster, but there were just no agency-style management tools that were very useful for us.

[Luc_ElectroRaven]

I do this – it works well. Like having an intern who actually follows the SOPs the same way everytime.

That said – idk if really has sped up my workflows but at least I don’t have to click around inside the UI now.