📣 LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper

Returns the ads a company runs on LinkedIn, read from LinkedIn's public Ad Library without a login, a cookie or a browser. Enter an advertiser or a keyword and get one row per ad: advertiser, format, ad text, headline, picture and the link to the ad. On request each row also carries the full text, the landing page, the call to action, the video file, who paid for the ad, and for ads shown in the EU the run dates, impression range, countries and targeting.

Price: $1.50 per 1,000 ads on the Apify Free plan, down to $1.20 from the Gold plan up. Details add $2.00 per 1,000 (down to $1.60). A search without ads costs nothing. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🔎 What is the LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper?

LinkedIn publishes the ads of every advertiser in its Ad Library. The site shows them 24 at a time and has no export. This Actor reads the same pages a visitor gets and returns them as a table: 480 ads in about 39 seconds.

What data does it extract?

• Ad: id, link, format (single image, video, carousel, document, message, event, article, text ad), LinkedIn's internal type
• Creative: ad text, headline, picture
• Advertiser: name as shown on the ad
• With details: full ad text, landing page, button text, video file, every picture, the advertiser's company page, who paid for the ad
• With details, for ads shown in the EU: first and last day the ad ran, total impressions as LinkedIn's range, the countries with their share of impressions, language and location targeting, and which targeting parameters were used (audience, demographic, company, education, job, interests)

How it reads the site

	This Actor	A scraper that drives a browser
Memory	512 MB	1 to 2 GB
Filters	LinkedIn's own: advertiser, keyword, countries, period	Varies
Landing page	The ad's real link, LinkedIn's tracking parameter removed	Varies
A search without ads	No rows, no charge, and the status message says so	Varies

⬇️ Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
advertisers	array		Company names, one search each
keywords	array		Words in the ad text, one search each
urls	array		Search links copied from the Ad Library, links of single ads, or ad ids
countries	array	empty	Two-letter codes (DE, FR, US): only ads shown there
dateOption	string	any	last-30-days, current-month, current-year, last-year
startDate, endDate	string	empty	A custom period (YYYY-MM-DD), both needed
maxResults	integer	24	Ads to save per search, up to 5,000
includeDetails	boolean	false	Opens each ad's own page. Second charge event
onlyNewAds	boolean	false	Skip every ad an earlier run with the same monitor name delivered
monitorId	string	empty	Name of that memory

LinkedIn matches an advertiser name loosely: a search for "HubSpot" also returns ads of partners that carry the name ("HubSpot Platinum Partner"). To pin one company, set the advertiser in the Ad Library yourself and paste that search link into urls.

With an empty input the Actor reads the sample advertiser HubSpot, so a first run shows what the rows look like.

Example input

A competitor's ads in Germany and France in the last 30 days, with details:

{
  "advertisers": ["Personio"],
  "countries": ["DE", "FR"],
  "dateOption": "last-30-days",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Every advertiser that uses a phrase:

{
  "keywords": ["crm software", "marketing automation"],
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

A search link and a single ad:

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/search?accountOwner=salesforce&countries=DE&dateOption=last-30-days",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1578715144"
  ]
}

⬆️ Output

One row per ad. The first row of the default run:

{
  "adId": "1566665103",
  "adUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1566665103",
  "advertiserName": "HubSpot",
  "format": "Single Image Ad",
  "creativeType": "SPONSORED_STATUS_UPDATE",
  "text": "Outgrowing your CRM? See how scaling teams unified their data and automated more with AI.",
  "headline": "CRM slowing you down?",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D10AQEdZnzdWO4RFQ/image-shrink_1280/B4DaDugRnLJ0Ac-/0/1790707833528/IMAGE1png?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=Kq72LJ_SRzCFdNBd9D3UWEfI00GzOEfkhqsP0UZ1sF8",
  "query": "HubSpot",
  "position": 1,
  "hasDetails": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T15:50:02.272762+00:00"
}

With includeDetails, a row found for the keyword "crm software" in Germany:

{
  "adId": "1559111273",
  "adUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1559111273",
  "advertiserName": "Byner",
  "format": "Single Image Ad",
  "creativeType": "SPONSORED_STATUS_UPDATE",
  "text": "Verheddern Sie sich auch manchmal in Ihrer Recruiting-Software?\nMit Byner wird aus Chaos Struktur: Alles in einer Umgebung, nahtlos vernetzt.",
  "headline": "Vom Chaos zur Plug-and-Play-Lösung.",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D10AQG3mYlchmiU0g/image-shrink_1280/B4DZiiiPt.GgAM-/0/1755073543779/AirpodsDEpng?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=M36lYfkYcNL99HxfrzSqAjZ0xoDq8keywPfoLad5V6c",
  "query": "crm software",
  "position": 30,
  "hasDetails": true,
  "advertiserUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/28840076",
  "paidBy": "Byner",
  "startDate": "2026-09-27",
  "endDate": "2026-10-02",
  "impressions": "< 1k",
  "impressionsMin": null,
  "impressionsMax": 1000,
  "countries": [
    {"country": "Germany", "share": "89%"},
    {"country": "Switzerland", "share": "9%"},
    {"country": "Austria", "share": "2%"}
  ],
  "targetingLanguage": "Targeting includes English",
  "targetingLocation": "Targeting includes DACH",
  "targeting": {"Audience": "targeted"},
  "callToAction": "Learn more",
  "destinationUrl": "https://byner.com/de/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=q4_2026_de&utm_content=aw_hp",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D10AQG3mYlchmiU0g/image-shrink_1280/B4DZiiiPt.GgAM-/0/1755073543779/AirpodsDEpng?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=M36lYfkYcNL99HxfrzSqAjZ0xoDq8keywPfoLad5V6c"
  ],
  "videoUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T15:51:08.844981+00:00"
}

The run also writes a SUMMARY record with the searches that returned nothing and the reason a run stopped.

💰 What a run costs

Apify plan	Per 1,000 ads	Per 1,000 ad details (added)
Free	$1.50	$2.00
Bronze	$1.40	$1.90
Silver	$1.30	$1.80
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$1.20	$1.60

Apify's standard start event ($0.00005) is the only other charge; proxies are included. Not charged: a search without ads, an ad already delivered in only-new mode, and the same ad found a second time in one run. A single ad opened by its link always comes with its details and is charged as one ad plus one detail. Set the run's maximum charge and the Actor stops at it with the rows it has saved.

⏱️ Measured on Apify (October 3, 2026)

Run	Ads	Time
Empty input (sample advertiser, one page)	24	8 s
One advertiser, 20 pages	480	39 s
Keyword, ad link and search link with details	121	49 s
Only-new watch on one advertiser in Germany, second run	0 new of 448	35 s

All at 512 MB. In the detail run, all 121 ads carried payer, run dates and impression range, 101 the countries, 86 a landing page and 8 a video file. Two aborted and resumed runs (480 ads, and 240 with details) saved no ad twice.

🔔 Watching for new ads

Turn on onlyNewAds, give the watch a monitorId, narrow the search with dateOption and put the run on a schedule. The first run delivers what is there. Later runs read the same search and deliver only the ads they have not delivered to you before; a run without news ends with zero rows and "Nothing new". The memory is a key-value store named linkedin-ad-library-monitor in your own account; delete a record there to start a watch over.

🤖 For AI agents

Smallest useful call:

{"advertisers": ["HubSpot"], "maxResults": 24}

Each row is one ad with advertiserName, format, text, headline, imageUrl and adUrl. Add "includeDetails": true for destinationUrl, callToAction, paidBy, startDate, endDate, impressions, countries and targeting. advertisers, keywords and urls take several entries at once. A search without ads returns no rows; the status message and the SUMMARY record name it. No credentials are needed.

💡 Use cases

• 🎯 B2B competitor research: what a competitor says in its LinkedIn ads, where the ads lead, and in which countries they run.
• ✍️ Ad copy research: hundreds of real ads for a keyword with text, headline and call to action in one table.
• 🔔 Launch monitoring: a scheduled watch that reports only the ads that are new.
• 🇪🇺 Reach and targeting in the EU: impression ranges, country shares and the targeting parameters an advertiser used.

⚠️ Limits, stated plainly

• Run dates, impressions, countries and targeting exist only where LinkedIn publishes them, which is for ads shown in the EU. An ad shown only elsewhere has its creative, advertiser and payer, and nothing more.
• The search list shortens long ad texts with "…". The full text is in the details.
• The advertiser search is a loose name match. Partners and resellers that carry the name are included; see the note under the input table.
• Landing page: 86 of 121 ads in the test had one. Message ads, event ads and promoted posts of employees often have none.
• Promoted posts of employees show the company as advertiser, the employee as payer, and no company page link.
• No spend. LinkedIn does not publish it.
• 5,000 ads per search is the upper limit; use countries or a period to split a larger advertiser.
• LinkedIn limits how often one address may ask. The Actor changes addresses by itself, which is why 480 ads take 39 seconds and not 5. If LinkedIn stops answering in the middle of a search, the rows saved so far stay and the status message says which search was cut.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account or cookies? No. The Ad Library is public and the Actor reads it as a visitor. Your own LinkedIn account is never involved.

How do I get the ads of exactly one company? Open the Ad Library, pick the company in the advertiser field, copy the link of the result page and paste it into urls.

Why are run dates and impressions empty for some ads? LinkedIn publishes them for ads shown in the EU. Add EU countries to countries to get only such ads.

Why do I get fewer ads than LinkedIn's count? maxResults is 24 by default. Raise it. When a search stops at your limit, the status message quotes LinkedIn's count.

Can I search by keyword and advertiser together? Yes, through a search link: set both in the Ad Library and paste the link.

Does it download the videos? It returns the link of the video file in its best quality; the file itself is not copied.

Can I run it every day? Yes. Use a schedule with onlyNewAds so you pay only for ads you have not received.

How do I call it from code? With the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients; every run returns a dataset you can fetch as JSON or CSV. It also works as a tool through Apify's MCP server.

Is it legal? The Actor reads what LinkedIn publishes for everyone under its transparency rules. Payer names can be names of persons; GDPR, CCPA and similar rules apply to how you store and use them, and LinkedIn's terms apply to you as well.

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