LinkedIn Ads Scraper

LinkedIn Ads Scraper turns the public LinkedIn Ad Library into a table of ads: advertiser, format, ad copy, headline, image or video, carousel cards, document and event details — and, with one switch, who paid for the ad, when it ran, total impressions, impressions by country, targeted languages and locations, the targeting criteria used, the call-to-action button and the landing page with its UTM parameters. One row per ad.

Search by keyword, advertiser name, payer or LinkedIn company ID, add competitors by their company page, or paste any Ad Library link. Filter by country and date. No LinkedIn account, no login, no cookies. $1.6 per 1,000 ads, $3.2 per 1,000 ads with details, no start fee.

What is LinkedIn Ads Scraper?

A LinkedIn ads scraper and unofficial LinkedIn Ads API for B2B ad research. LinkedIn publishes every ad that runs on its platform in the Ad Library; this Actor reads that library for you and returns clean, flat rows you can sort, filter and load into a spreadsheet, a BI tool, a CRM or an AI agent — no official API needed.

Typical questions it answers: Which companies advertise on LinkedIn for "crm" in the US? Which ads is my competitor running right now? Which formats and offers do they test? Which countries see their ads and how many impressions do they get? Who do they target — by job, company or audience? Which landing pages and UTM campaigns do they use?

What data can LinkedIn Ads Scraper extract?

Field	Example	Meaning
advertiserName	HubSpot	Company or person shown as the advertiser
advertiserType	company	company or person
format	Single Image Ad	LinkedIn's own format name: Video Ad, Carousel Ad, Document Ad, Event Ad, Message Ad…
text	Occupancy challenges? Let's chat!…	Ad copy (a ~120-character preview from search; full text with details)
headline	Attending SMASH 2026?	Headline of the creative
imageUrl	https://media.licdn.com/…	Ad image, video cover, article cover, document page or first carousel card
url, adId	https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1630618696	The ad's page in the Ad Library
isThoughtLeaderAd, memberName	true, Charlotte Davies	A company promoting a member's post, and whose post it is
carouselCards	[{title, imageUrl}]	Carousel ads: every card
documentTitle, documentTotalPages	How AI Is Changing Commerce, 13	Document ads
eventName, eventTime, eventLocation	CIO Summit, February 3, 2026, Basel, CH	Event ads
searchTerm, position	crm, 1	Which search found the ad and its rank

📊 Impressions, targeting and landing page (details option)

Turn on Add impressions, countries, targeting and landing page and every ad's own page is opened and added to the row:

Field	Example
paidBy	HubSpot, Inc.
ranFrom, ranTo, runDays	2026-09-14, 2026-10-02, 19
impressions, impressionsMin, impressionsMax	50k-100k, 50000, 100000
impressionsByCountry, topCountry	[{country: "United Kingdom", share: "43%", percent: 43}, {country: "Ireland", share: "19%"…}], United Kingdom
targetingLanguages, targetingLocations	["English"], ["Dallas, TX", "Germany", "Chicago, IL"…]
targetingExcludedLocations	["India", "New Zealand", "United Arab Emirates"]
targetedParameters, excludedParameters, targetingCriteria	["Company", "Job"]
ctaText	Learn more
landingUrl, landingDomain, utmParameters	the page the ad sends people to, its domain, and its utm_* / hsa_* parameters
advertiserUrl, advertiserCompanyId	https://www.linkedin.com/company/68529, 68529
videoUrl	MP4 file of a video ad

Where impressions and targeting come from. LinkedIn publishes run dates, impressions and targeting for ads it reports under the EU Digital Services Act — ads that reached people in the EU. In our test every ad found with a German country filter had an impressions range (150 of 150) and 143 of 150 had targeting; ads shown only outside the EU carry the advertiser, payer and creative but no impressions. The Actor never estimates numbers LinkedIn does not show.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape LinkedIn ads?

Pay per ad, nothing else. Every row is billed once, by what it contains:

Event	Free plan	Starter (Bronze)	Scale (Silver)	Business, Platinum, Diamond
Ad — one ad from the Ad Library search	$0.0016 ($1.6 / 1K)	$0.00144 ($1.44 / 1K)	$0.00128 ($1.28 / 1K)	$0.00112 ($1.12 / 1K)
Ad with details — the same ad plus impressions, countries, targeting and landing page	$0.0032 ($3.2 / 1K)	$0.00288 ($2.88 / 1K)	$0.00256 ($2.56 / 1K)	$0.00224 ($2.24 / 1K)
Searches with no ads, error rows, start of a run	free	free	free	free

An ad is billed as either an ad or an ad with details, never both. On the Apify Free plan the monthly $5 credit buys about 3,125 ads or 1,562 ads with details. For comparison, the most-used LinkedIn ads actor in Apify Store charges $2 per 1,000 ads and $4 per 1,000 ads with details on the Free plan (Store prices on 3 October 2026) — this Actor is 20% below that. Max cost per run in the run options is respected to the cent: the run stops by itself, green, once the next ad would go over it.

How to scrape LinkedIn ads

1. Open the Actor and press Try for free (an Apify account is free).
2. In Search terms type what you are looking for, one per line — a keyword (crm), an advertiser (hubspot) or a company ID (1337).
3. Pick Search by: keyword, advertiser name, payer or LinkedIn company ID.
4. Optionally add Countries (US, GB, DE…), a Date range, or Companies by their LinkedIn page.
5. Turn on Add impressions, countries, targeting and landing page if you need them.
6. Press Start. The default search — 24 ads about CRM shown in the US — finishes in about 20 seconds.
7. Download the table as Excel, CSV or JSON, or send it to Google Sheets.

⬇️ Input

{
    "searchTerms": ["cybersecurity"],
    "searchType": "keyword",
    "countries": ["DE", "FR"],
    "maxAdsPerSearch": 100,
    "includeDetails": true,
    "dateRange": "last-30-days"
}

Field	What it does
searchTerms	One search per line
searchType	keyword, advertiser, payer or companyId
countries	Two-letter country codes; empty = all countries
maxAdsPerSearch	Ads per search line, 1–5,000 (default 24)
includeDetails	Impressions, countries, targeting, landing page ($)
companies	Competitors by LinkedIn page URL, company ID or name
dateRange	any, last-30-days, current-month, current-year, last-year
startDate, endDate	Exact range, YYYY-MM-DD
sortOrder	newest (default) or oldest
startUrls	LinkedIn Ad Library links (searches or single ads)
onlyNewRowsStore	Memory name for only-new-ads monitoring

Search LinkedIn ads by keyword

"searchType": "keyword" finds ads whose copy contains the word — the way to map a whole category (crm, cybersecurity, webinar, hiring).

Search LinkedIn ads by advertiser, payer or company

"searchType": "advertiser" matches the advertiser's name; matching is partial, so hubspot returns HubSpot's ads and those of HubSpot partners. For exactly one company use "searchType": "companyId" with the number from its LinkedIn URL, or put the company page into Companies — https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/ is turned into its ID automatically. "searchType": "payer" matches the Paid for by entity, which often differs from the advertiser (agencies, legal entities).

Paste LinkedIn Ad Library URLs

Set up any search on linkedin.com/ad-library and paste the address into Ad Library URLs — every filter of the page is kept. A single ad's link (/ad-library/detail/<id>) returns that ad with full details.

⬆️ Output

One JSON object per ad. A shortened example with details on:

{
    "type": "ad",
    "adId": "1560106944",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1560106944",
    "advertiserName": "HubSpot",
    "advertiserType": "company",
    "format": "Single Image Ad",
    "text": "Remote-first and built on trust. Sell from wherever you're sharpest…",
    "headline": "Sell from anywhere, close everywhere.",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/…",
    "searchType": "companyId",
    "searchTerm": "68529",
    "companyInput": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/",
    "position": 1,
    "detailsScraped": true,
    "paidBy": "HubSpot, Inc.",
    "ranFrom": "2026-09-14",
    "ranTo": "2026-10-02",
    "runDays": 19,
    "impressions": "50k-100k",
    "impressionsMin": 50000,
    "impressionsMax": 100000,
    "topCountry": "United Kingdom",
    "impressionsByCountry": [
        { "country": "United Kingdom", "share": "43%", "percent": 43 },
        { "country": "Ireland", "share": "19%", "percent": 19 },
        { "country": "Germany", "share": "18%", "percent": 18 }
    ],
    "targetingLanguages": ["English"],
    "targetingLocations": ["Dallas, TX", "Germany", "Chicago, IL", "England", "United Kingdom"],
    "targetingExcludedLocations": ["India", "New Zealand", "United Arab Emirates"],
    "targetedParameters": ["Company", "Job"],
    "ctaText": "Learn more",
    "advertiserCompanyId": "68529",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T00:10:00+00:00"
}

The Console shows four tabs: Ads (the overview), Impressions & targeting, Creative and Errors.

Error rows

When a search finds nothing, an input cannot be read (a country code like USA, a company page that does not exist) or LinkedIn refuses a page several times, you get a row with type: "error" and a plain-English error. Error rows are never charged.

🔁 Get only new LinkedIn ads — schedule it

A one-off export is useful once; a feed of new ads is useful every day. Fill Only new ads — memory name (for example competitors-weekly) and the Actor remembers every ad it delivered under that name. Every later run with the same name writes — and charges — only ads you have not received before. Ads delivered earlier are skipped before their page is even opened, so details are not paid twice either.

1. Run once with the memory name to load the current ads.
2. Open the run → Actions → Schedule (or Schedules) and pick daily or weekly.
3. Read the new ads from each run's dataset, or connect a webhook, Slack, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Each memory name is separate: one per competitor list or market. To start over, use a new name.

Use cases for LinkedIn ads data

Competitor B2B ads monitoring

Track every ad a competitor launches, the offers and formats they test and how long each one runs. runDays shows which creatives they keep paying for.

Market and category research

Run a keyword like payroll software across US, GB and DE and see who advertises, with which messages and formats.

Ad impressions by country

impressionsByCountry shows where a campaign actually reached people — compare competitors' footprint across European markets before entering one.

Targeting research

targetedParameters and targetingLocations tell you whether a competitor targets by job title, company list, audience or demographics, and where.

Creative inspiration and AI analysis

Pull hundreds of ads in your category with headlines, copy, CTAs and images and feed them to an LLM to find patterns in hooks and offers.

Agency prospecting

Companies that advertise on LinkedIn have budget. Search a category, collect the advertisers and pitch them.

Integrations

Apify API (Python and JavaScript)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("blueskyscraper/linkedin-ads-scraper").call(run_input={"searchTerms": ["cybersecurity"], "countries": ["DE"], "maxAdsPerSearch": 100, "includeDetails": True})
for ad in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(ad.get("advertiserName"), ad.get("format"), ad.get("impressions"))

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('blueskyscraper/linkedin-ads-scraper').call({ searchTerms: ['crm'], countries: ['US'], maxAdsPerSearch: 200 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

No-code: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets

Use the Apify app in n8n, Make or Zapier: Run Actor → Get dataset items. For Google Sheets, use the Google Sheets integration on the Actor's Integrations tab, or download the run as Excel or CSV.

MCP server for AI agents

Connect https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=blueskyscraper/linkedin-ads-scraper to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask in plain words — for example "Which companies run LinkedIn ads about cybersecurity in Germany, and which got the most impressions?" The input fields are written so an agent can call the Actor correctly without reading this page.

🤖 For AI agents

Actor blueskyscraper/linkedin-ads-scraper. Purpose: one row per LinkedIn ad from the public LinkedIn Ad Library. Minimal input: {"searchTerms": ["hubspot"], "searchType": "advertiser"}. Behaviors: startUrls and companies run alongside searchTerms; startDate/endDate override dateRange; maxAdsPerSearch defaults to 24 per search line; text is a ~120-character preview (textTruncated: true) unless includeDetails is on; empty impressions mean LinkedIn does not publish them for that ad, not zero; advertiser matches names partially, companyId or a company URL in companies is exact. Billed per row as ad or ad-with-details; error rows are free.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape the LinkedIn Ad Library?

The Ad Library is a public transparency tool that LinkedIn publishes for anyone to search without logging in, and this Actor reads only those public pages. It does not log in or touch private profiles. Ads can contain names of people (Thought Leader ads, message senders); if you store or process them, the GDPR and similar laws apply to you. Check LinkedIn's terms and consult a lawyer for your specific use.

Does it need a LinkedIn account or cookies?

No. Nothing is logged in, so there is no account to get restricted, and no browser either — runs finish in seconds.

Can I use LinkedIn Ads Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. Every run can be started and read over the REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients above, so it works as an unofficial LinkedIn Ads API for ad intelligence.

Can I use it through an MCP server?

Yes, through the Apify MCP server — see Integrations.

Can I integrate it with other apps?

Yes: n8n, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks, and anything that can call an HTTP API.

Why are impressions or targeting empty for some ads?

LinkedIn publishes run dates, impressions and targeting only for ads it reports under the EU Digital Services Act — ads that reached people in the EU. For ads shown only outside the EU those fields stay empty. Impressions by country appear once LinkedIn publishes them, which can take up to 48 hours after an ad starts; very fresh ads show the total impressions range but no country split yet. The Actor never estimates numbers LinkedIn does not show.

What happens when a search finds nothing?

You get one free row with type: "error" saying so, with a hint (remove the country filter, widen the dates). A search with no ads is a valid answer, not a failure, and nothing is charged.

Is it one row per ad?

Yes. The same ad found by two searches or two companies in one run appears once.

How many ads can I get per search?

Up to 5,000 per search line per run. LinkedIn serves 24 ads per page; 1,000 ads from two keywords took about two minutes in our test.

How much does a typical run cost?

The default run (24 ads) costs about $0.0016 × 24 ≈ $0.04 on the Free plan. 1,000 ads cost $1.6, 1,000 ads with details $3.2, less on paid plans.

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Also known as: LinkedIn ads scraper, LinkedIn Ads API, LinkedIn ad library scraper, LinkedIn ad library API, LinkedIn ad spy tool, scrape LinkedIn ads, LinkedIn sponsored content scraper, B2B ads intelligence.