# See a competitor's new Meta ad creatives

**Use case:** 

Your competitor just launched 40 new ad creatives this week and you're still running the same three. This example pulls every active ad a brand is running on Meta from the public Ad Library, keeps a running history, and flags only what's new since last check - plus the marketing angle behind each. Swap in your own competitor's Ad Library URL.

## Input

```json
{
  "sourceActorId": "apify/facebook-ads-scraper",
  "sourceActorInput": {
    "startUrls": [
      {
        "url": "https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=US&search_type=page&view_all_page_id=20531316728"
      }
    ],
    "activeStatus": "active"
  },
  "historyStoreName": "meta-ads-competitor-history",
  "onlyNewAds": true,
  "maxAds": 500,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "advertiser": {
    "label": "Advertiser",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "headline": {
    "label": "Headline",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "primaryText": {
    "label": "Primary text",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "cta": {
    "label": "Call to action",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "landingPageUrl": {
    "label": "Landing page URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "firstSeenAt": {
    "label": "First seen at",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "isNew": {
    "label": "New ad",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "marketingAngle": {
    "label": "Marketing angle",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "offerSignals": {
    "label": "Offer signals",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "creativeFormat": {
    "label": "Creative format",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "adLibraryUrl": {
    "label": "Ad Library URL",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Meta Ads Competitor Intelligence](https://apify.com/0xgollum/meta-ads-competitor-intelligence.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/0xgollum/meta-ads-competitor-intelligence.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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