How to connect Pinterest Ads to Grok Bot

Connect Grok Bot to Pinterest Ads MCP. Review yesterday's pinterest campaign performance, pause underperforming ad groups today, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Pinterest Ads is Pinterest's advertising platform for campaigns, ad groups, ads, targeting, and reporting. Use it to reach high-intent shoppers and track performance across the Pinterest funnel.

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect Pinterest Ads to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with Pinterest Ads in plain language.

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Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,500+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,500+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting Pinterest Ads to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect Pinterest Ads entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

Get access. Grok Bot is included with Cursor Ultra, Cursor Premium Teams, and SuperGrok Heavy. Get the desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot and sign in. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect Pinterest Ads

1. Add the Composio plugin

Click the button. The Composio listing on x.ai opens and launches Grok Bot for you. If the app does not open on its own, click Add to Grok Bot.

Add to Grok Bot

Composio for Grok Bot listing on x.ai with the Add to Grok Bot button

Grok Bot opens the Composio plugin, showing its connector and skills. Click Add.

Composio plugin sheet in Grok Bot with the Add button

2. Authenticate

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed.

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

3. Connect your Pinterest Ads account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to Pinterest Ads or give it any Pinterest Ads task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Review yesterday's Pinterest campaign performance"
  • "Pause underperforming ad groups today"
  • "List active Pinterest ad campaigns"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your Pinterest Ads account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like Pinterest Ads through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Pinterest Ads MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Pinterest Ads MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Pinterest Ads account. It provides structured and secure access to your advertising accounts, campaigns, ad groups, ads, targeting options, and performance reports, so your agent can review account activity, analyze results, explore targeting options, and update campaigns, ad groups, or ads on your behalf.

  • Advertising account overview: Have your agent list the Pinterest advertising accounts you own or can access.
  • Campaign and ad review: Let the agent review your campaigns, ad groups, and ads to understand how your advertising is organized.
  • Performance reporting: Direct your agent to retrieve advertising metrics for a date range and compare results across your account, campaigns, ad groups, or ads.
  • Targeting research: Instruct your agent to explore valid audiences by age, gender, locale, location, interests, or keywords before you adjust your strategy.
  • Campaign status management: Have your agent rename, pause, or resume existing campaigns, ad groups, and ads, and check whether reporting metrics are finalized before using them.

Way Forward

Now that Pinterest Ads is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Pinterest Ads action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Ads Analytics

Get synchronous Pinterest Ads performance metrics for an advertiser or selected campaigns, ad groups, or ads over a date range.

Get Metrics Ready State

Check whether Pinterest conversion and non-conversion metrics are finalized for a UTC report date before relying on analytics results.

Get Targeting Options

Get Pinterest's valid targeting values for a targeting type, such as age buckets, gender, locale, location, interests, or keywords.

List Ad Accounts

List advertiser accounts the connected Pinterest user owns or can access, including the IDs needed by all other Ads tools.

List Ad Groups

List ad groups for an advertiser, filter by parent campaigns, or look up specific ad groups by ID.

List Ads

List ads for an advertiser, filter by one hierarchy level, or look up specific ads by ID.

List Campaigns

List campaigns for an advertiser, or look up specific campaigns by ID using campaign_ids.

Update Ad Groups

Rename, pause, or resume up to 30 existing ad groups.

Update Ads

Rename, pause, or resume up to 30 existing Pinterest ads.

Update Campaigns

Rename, pause, or resume up to 30 existing campaigns.

FRAMEWORKS

How to build Pinterest Ads MCP Agent with another framework

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Pinterest Ads MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Pinterest Ads tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Pinterest Ads and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Grok Bot fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Pinterest Ads tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Pinterest Ads scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Pinterest Ads data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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