Google Drive Import

Bring media in from Google Drive without downloading it to your computer first. There are two ways to do it:

• The Google Drive picker: choose files from your own Drive, including private ones.
• Import by Link: paste public links to a Drive folder, Drive files, or files hosted anywhere on the web.

Pick Files from Google Drive

1. In the upload area, click the Google Drive icon (tooltip: Import from Google Drive). Once media is uploaded, the same icon is in the toolbar above the Uploaded Media table.
2. The first time, sign in with Google and allow Ads Uploader to open the files you pick.
3. Choose your files in the Google Picker dialog.
4. The files are added to the Selected Files list, just like files from your computer. Review them, then click Upload Files to start the upload.

Things to know about the picker:

• Pick up to 2,000 files at a time. If you pick more, only the first 2,000 are added. Open Google Drive again for the rest; they queue together in the Selected Files list.
• Smaller picks are more reliable. Google sometimes does not grant access to every file in a very large pick. Picks of up to 200 files are known to work.
• Inaccessible files are reported. A file that Google does not let us open is marked as not accessible.
• Uploads stop early if access fails. If 10 files in a row come back as not accessible, and failures are at least as common as successes, the upload stops. Remove those files and pick fewer at a time.
• Keep the tab open until the upload finishes. Large video batches take a while because Meta processes every video.
• File naming rules still apply. Thumbnails and aspect ratio variants are detected the same way as for files from your computer. See File Naming Conventions.

Import from Links

Use Import by Link when your media is in a shared Drive folder or hosted online.

1. Click the Import by Link icon. It sits next to the Google Drive icon in the upload area, and in the toolbar above the Uploaded Media table.
2. Paste either:
   • one public Google Drive folder link on its own, or
   • up to 250 links to image and video files, one per line. These can be Google Drive file links or direct HTTPS links from any host.
3. Click Import. The dialog closes and the import runs in the background, in the usual upload progress panel, with progress for each file and a cancel option.

Limits and rules:

• Sharing: Drive links must be shared as Anyone with the link (Viewer). In Drive, open Share, set General access to Anyone with the link, then paste the link. Private Drive files only work through the picker above.
• Folders: folder links work for Google Drive only. One folder can hold up to 5,000 files and 64 GB of media. Split larger folders into smaller ones.
• Links: up to 250 file links per import.

Completed media is added to your Uploaded Media table next to the files already there. This includes files that finished before you cancelled. If you refresh the page during an active import, its progress picks up again.

The same dialog has a Partnership Ads Mode switch for importing Instagram ad codes, post URLs and post IDs instead of media. See Configure your ads.

Import Links from the MCP, CLI, or API

In the CLI, ads upload accepts URLs alongside local paths in the same batch, and ads upload:drive imports a public folder with per-file progress. Through the MCP, give your agent the links and it starts a background import job, then checks its progress. The file contents never pass through the conversation.

File naming detection (thumbnails, aspect ratio variants) works the same way for link imports, so a well-named Drive folder arrives already grouped.