# URL2Ad (remote · url2ad.app)

Turn a web page into a 15-second animated video ad: free preview from a URL and an e-mail.

- Trust score: 73/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `url2ad.app`: 73/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://url2ad.app/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.1.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 74/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 545 tokens (~181/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 13/100
  - Stability observed for 4 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the URL2Ad MCP server?

URL2Ad is a hosted endpoint at https://url2ad.app/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-url2ad-url2ad 'https://url2ad.app/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-url2ad-url2ad": {
      "url": "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "app-url2ad-url2ad": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.app-url2ad-url2ad]
url = "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "app-url2ad-url2ad": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://url2ad.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add app-url2ad-url2ad --url 'https://url2ad.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  app-url2ad-url2ad:
    url: "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "app-url2ad-url2ad": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add app-url2ad-url2ad -t streamable-http -u 'https://url2ad.app/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "app-url2ad-url2ad": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://url2ad.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-02 (score 71, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-01 (score 71)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `create_ad` (~149 tokens)

Create a video ad from a web page

Starts building a free watermarked 15-second video ad from a public web page, in the language of that page. Use it when the user asks for a video ad for their site, product, app or store. The address must be the user's own, given by them in this conversation: never guess it or use someone else's. It receives the link by e-mail. Calling it again with the same page and address returns the same ad.

Input parameters:

- `email` (string, required): The user's own e-mail address, which receives the link to the video.
- `url` (string, required): The public web page to make the ad from, e.g. https://example.com. Social network profiles do not work.

Output parameters:

- `ad_id` (string)
- `page_url` (string): Where the user watches the free watermarked video.
- `status` (string)

### `get_ad_status` (~132 tokens)

Check where a video ad stands

Returns the state of an ad started with create_ad: building, preview_ready, paid, failed or unavailable, with its page link, the changes left and the reason for a failure. Use it when the user asks whether their ad is ready, or before saying that it is. To wait for an ad being built, pass wait_seconds and call again while the status is building.

Input parameters:

- `ad_id` (string, required): The ad_id returned by create_ad.
- `wait_seconds` (integer): Holds the answer up to this long, returning as soon as the ad stops building. Default 0: answer at once.

Output parameters:

- `ad_id` (string): The latest version of the ad. A change makes a new version.
- `changes_left` (integer)
- `failure` (string): Why the ad, or the last change to it, failed.
- `page_url` (string)
- `status` (string)

### `request_change` (~121 tokens)

Change a video ad

Rebuilds an existing ad with a change the user asked for, such as other wording, colors or images. It uses up one of the changes left, and one free change is included, so call it only when the user asked for this change, and pass their request as they said it. The new version takes a few minutes: follow it with get_ad_status.

Input parameters:

- `ad_id` (string, required): The ad_id returned by create_ad.
- `change` (string, required): What the user wants changed, in their words (3 to 1000 characters).

Output parameters:

- `ad_id` (string): The new version of the ad.
- `page_url` (string)
- `status` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 73
- 2026-11-04: 72
- 2026-11-03: 72
- 2026-11-02: 71
- 2026-11-01: 71

## Common questions

### What is the URL2Ad MCP server?

URL2Ad is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as app.url2ad/url2ad. Turn a web page into a 15-second animated video ad: free preview from a URL and an e-mail. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://url2ad.app/mcp).

### Is the URL2Ad MCP server safe to use?

URL2Ad scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the URL2Ad MCP server expose?

URL2Ad exposes 3 tools: create_ad, get_ad_status, request_change. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 402 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the URL2Ad MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to URL2Ad without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the URL2Ad MCP server still maintained?

URL2Ad is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://url2ad.app/mcp
- Website: https://url2ad.app/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/app-url2ad-url2ad/url2ad