LinkedIn Competitor Ads Scraper

LinkedIn Competitor Ads Scraper shows you every ad a company runs on LinkedIn. Paste a competitor's LinkedIn company page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/), its company ID or just its name, and get its ads from the public LinkedIn Ad Library: ad copy, headline, format, image or video, carousel cards, call to action — and, with one switch, who paid, run dates, impressions, impressions by country, targeting and the landing page with its UTM parameters. One row per ad, no LinkedIn login. $1.6 per 1,000 ads, no start fee.

What is LinkedIn Competitor Ads Scraper?

A LinkedIn ad spy tool for B2B marketers, agencies and founders who want to know what competitors advertise on LinkedIn — without opening the Ad Library one company at a time. Put ten competitors in the list and get one table: who runs how many ads, in which formats, with which offers, since when, and — for ads that reached the EU — where and to whom they were shown.

The company page URL is turned into LinkedIn's numeric company ID automatically, so you get exactly that company's ads, not those of partners or agencies with a similar name. A plain name uses LinkedIn's own advertiser-name search, which is broader.

What data do you get for each competitor ad?

Field	Example
advertiserName, advertiserType	HubSpot, company
format	Single Image Ad, Video Ad, Carousel Ad, Document Ad, Event Ad, Message Ad…
text, headline	Remote-first and built on trust…, Sell from anywhere, close everywhere.
imageUrl, videoUrl, carouselCards	the creative itself
isThoughtLeaderAd, memberName	a company promoting an employee's post, and whose
url, adId	https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1560106944
companyInput, searchTerm, position	the company you entered, its ID 68529, rank of the ad (newest first)

With Add impressions, countries, targeting and landing page on, each row also gets:

Field	Example
paidBy	HubSpot, Inc.
ranFrom, ranTo, runDays	2026-09-14, 2026-10-02, 19
impressions, impressionsMin, impressionsMax	50k-100k, 50000, 100000
impressionsByCountry, topCountry	United Kingdom 43%, Ireland 19%, Germany 18%…; United Kingdom
targetingLanguages, targetingLocations, targetingExcludedLocations	["English"], ["Dallas, TX", "Germany", "Chicago, IL"…], ["India"…]
targetedParameters	["Company", "Job"] — whether they target by company list, job, audience, demographics
ctaText, landingUrl, landingDomain, utmParameters	Learn more, the landing page, its domain and utm_* / hsa_* parameters

LinkedIn publishes impressions, run dates and targeting for ads that reached the EU (the Digital Services Act). Put DE, FR or NL into Countries to see those ads with every field; in our test 10 of 10 HubSpot ads shown in Germany came with impressions by country and targeting.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape competitor 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.

A typical check of 5 competitors × 24 ads costs about $0.19 on the Free plan; with details about $0.38.

How to see all LinkedIn ads of a competitor

1. Press Try for free (an Apify account is free).
2. In Competitors paste company pages, one per line: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce/. A company ID (68529) or a name (Pipedrive) works too.
3. Set Ads per company (24 by default, up to 5,000).
4. Optionally pick Countries and a Date range, and turn on impressions, countries, targeting and landing page.
5. Press Start — the default run (HubSpot, 24 ads) takes about 30 seconds.
6. Download the table as Excel, CSV or JSON.

⬇️ Input

{
    "companies": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce/",
        "Pipedrive"
    ],
    "maxAdsPerSearch": 50,
    "countries": ["DE"],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "dateRange": "last-30-days"
}

Field	What it does
companies	Company page URL, company ID or name — one competitor per line
maxAdsPerSearch	Ads per company, newest first (default 24, max 5,000)
countries	Only ads shown in these countries (US, GB, DE…)
includeDetails	Impressions, countries, targeting, landing page ($)
dateRange, startDate, endDate	When the ads ran
sortOrder	newest or oldest
onlyNewRowsStore	Memory name: later runs return only new ads

Company page, ID or name?

• Company page URL — linkedin.com/company/<name>/ (also /showcase/ pages). The Actor opens the public page once, reads the company ID and returns exactly that company's ads.
• Company ID — the number LinkedIn uses (68529 is HubSpot, 1337 is LinkedIn). Fastest, exact.
• Name — LinkedIn's advertiser-name search. Partial matching: hubspot also returns partners such as IXTENSA 🧡 HubSpot. Useful when you want the whole ecosystem around a brand.

⬆️ Output

{
    "type": "ad",
    "adId": "1560106944",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1560106944",
    "advertiserName": "HubSpot",
    "format": "Single Image Ad",
    "headline": "Sell from anywhere, close everywhere.",
    "text": "Remote-first and built on trust. Sell from wherever you're sharpest, on your own rhythm…",
    "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",
    "impressions": "50k-100k",
    "topCountry": "United Kingdom",
    "targetedParameters": ["Company", "Job"],
    "ctaText": "Learn more"
}

A company with no ads in the Ad Library returns one free row: "error": "Not found: no ads in the LinkedIn Ad Library for this search — this company may not advertise on LinkedIn right now". A company page that does not exist returns a free row saying so.

🔁 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

Weekly competitor ad report

Five competitors, a memory name, a weekly schedule: every Monday you get only the ads they launched that week, ready for Slack or a Google Sheet.

Positioning and messaging research

Read every headline and offer a competitor tests. Formats and runDays show what they keep paying for — the ads that work.

Where competitors spend

impressionsByCountry and targetingLocations show which markets get the budget; targetedParameters shows whether they target job titles, company lists or audiences.

Agency pitches

Show a prospect exactly what their competitors run on LinkedIn, with impressions and targeting, before the first call.

Integrations

Apify API (Python and JavaScript)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("blueskyscraper/linkedin-competitor-ads-scraper").call(run_input={"companies": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce/"], "maxAdsPerSearch": 50})
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-competitor-ads-scraper').call({ companies: ['https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/'], countries: ['DE'], includeDetails: true });
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-competitor-ads-scraper to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask in plain words — for example "Which LinkedIn ads did HubSpot and Salesforce launch in the last 30 days, and what do they offer?" The input fields are written so an agent can call the Actor correctly without reading this page.

🤖 For AI agents

Actor blueskyscraper/linkedin-competitor-ads-scraper. Purpose: every LinkedIn ad of the companies you name. Minimal input: {"companies": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot/"]}. A company URL or numeric ID is exact; a plain name uses partial advertiser-name matching. includeDetails: true adds impressions, impressions by country, run dates, payer, targeting and landing page (empty when LinkedIn does not publish them — EU-reached ads have them). 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 Competitor 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 do I find a company's LinkedIn ID?

You do not need to: paste the company page URL and the Actor finds the ID. If you want it anyway, it is advertiserCompanyId in any detailed row, and searchTerm in every row found through a company URL.

Does it show ads the company ran in the past?

It shows what the LinkedIn Ad Library keeps, newest first. Use Date range (last 30 days, this month, this year, last year) or Start date / End date to pick a period, and Order: oldest first to start from the oldest.

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Also known as: LinkedIn competitor ads, LinkedIn ad spy, competitor ads scraper, LinkedIn company ads, see competitor LinkedIn ads, LinkedIn Ad Library by company, B2B ads tracker.