Amazon Ads CLI Skill

You have access to amazon-ads-open-cli, a read-only CLI for the Amazon Advertising API (v2/v3). Use it to list advertising profiles, inspect Sponsored Products/Brands/Display campaigns and their hierarchy, browse DSP orders and creatives, manage audiences, and request async performance reports across Amazon marketplaces.

Quick start

# Check if the CLI is available
amazon-ads-open-cli --help

# List advertising profiles (marketplaces)
amazon-ads-open-cli profiles

# List Sponsored Products campaigns
amazon-ads-open-cli sp-campaigns

If the CLI is not installed, install it:

npm install -g amazon-ads-open-cli

Authentication

The CLI requires an Amazon OAuth2 access token and client ID from a Login with Amazon app. Credentials are resolved in this order:

1. --credentials <path> flag (per-command) -- reads the specified JSON file
2. Auto-detected file: ~/.config/amazon-ads-open-cli/credentials.json
3. Environment variables: AMAZON_ADS_ACCESS_TOKEN + AMAZON_ADS_CLIENT_ID

Note: when a credentials file is found (either via --credentials or at the default path), its profile_id can be overridden by the AMAZON_ADS_PROFILE_ID environment variable if the file does not contain one. If the credentials file is not found or does not contain valid access_token + client_id, the CLI falls through to environment variables.

The credentials JSON file format:

{
  "access_token": "your_access_token",
  "client_id": "your_client_id",
  "profile_id": "your_profile_id"
}

Environment variables:

• AMAZON_ADS_ACCESS_TOKEN -- OAuth2 access token
• AMAZON_ADS_CLIENT_ID -- Login with Amazon client ID
• AMAZON_ADS_PROFILE_ID -- marketplace profile ID (required for most commands)

Before running any command, verify credentials are configured by running amazon-ads-open-cli profiles. If it fails with a credentials error, ask the user to set up authentication.

Most commands require a profile ID (marketplace-specific). Use the profiles command first to discover profile IDs, then set AMAZON_ADS_PROFILE_ID.

Entity hierarchy

Profile (marketplace: US, UK, DE, JP, etc.)
 +-- Sponsored Products
 |    +-- Campaign -> Ad Group -> Product Ad / Keyword / Target
 +-- Sponsored Brands
 |    +-- Campaign -> Ad Group -> Keyword / Target
 +-- Sponsored Display
 |    +-- Campaign -> Ad Group -> Product Ad / Target
 +-- DSP (programmatic)
      +-- Advertiser -> Order -> Line Item -> Creative
      +-- Audience (configured at Line Item level)

Output format

All commands output pretty-printed JSON (2-space indent) by default. Use --format compact for single-line JSON (useful for piping).

Global options available on every command:

• --format <format> -- output format: json (default) or compact
• --credentials <path> -- path to credentials JSON file

All listing commands support offset-based pagination via --start-index and --count parameters.