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meta_ads_get_video_upload_status

Meta Ads tool. Check Meta ad-video processing status, readiness, and thumbnail. Use this after upload when you want to know whether the asset is ready for creatives without forcing ad creation.

This is a read-only tool: it retrieves video upload status from your Meta Ads account. It changes nothing.

Ask Claude

You do not call this tool yourself. Ask for the outcome and the client picks the tool:

Get video upload status in my Meta Ads account for [video id].

It takes 1 required and 3 optional parameters.

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
video_idstringYesVideo Id
wait_for_readybooleanNoWait For Ready
timeout_secondsintegerNoTimeout Seconds
poll_secondsintegerNoPoll Seconds

Related Meta Ads tools

Before you can call it

This tool needs a connected Meta Ads account. The Meta Ads connect guide covers the OAuth flow and the permissions it asks for, and the quickstart gets a client talking to the server in about five minutes.

Workflows that use this

Rather than calling tools one at a time, these skills run a whole procedure against the same account:

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