# Changelog of Facebook Ads Library Scraper & Ad Intelligence (`fetch_cat/facebook-ads-library-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/facebook-ads-library-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/fetch\_cat/facebook-ads-library-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.1.46 — 2026-09-30

#### Documentation

- Corrected the release notes to show the versions that customers received.

### 0.1.45 — 2026-09-30

#### Fixed

- Restored Facebook Ads Library searches that could fail before ads were collected.

* 2026-09-25 - Improved the input form by keeping everyday controls visible and grouping specialized settings under Advanced options.

* 2026-08-03 - Change: Restored the default safe run window so normal and larger searches have time to complete.

* 2026-07-16 - Change: Empty sample runs now start with a default search instead of failing before scraping.

* 2026-07-16 - Change: Fixed missing saved results during local and health-check runs

**0.3.0 — 2026-07-15**

- Prevented masked green failures with fatal lifecycle, strict pre-charge validation, explicit blocked/failed/empty/partial summaries, and bounded source retries.
- Reduced Chromium memory pressure by blocking media bodies, isolating each source, streaming billed dataset chunks, and bounding optional enrichment concurrency.
- Added full Ads Library URL input, exact-phrase matching, platform/language filters, a safe run deadline, and backward-compatible `RUN_SUMMARY`/`OUTPUT` diagnostics.
- Stabilized creative variant IDs across expiring CDN query signatures while preserving existing inputs and output fields.
- Corrected charge-parity accounting for Apify's named item event plus synthetic default-dataset bookkeeping event, without double-billing customers.
- Added `RUN_SUMMARY` diagnostics for malformed inputs while keeping validation before all billing.
- Raised the default browser memory to 2 GB after published-task QA showed some valid pages approaching the old 1 GB limit.
- Improved recovery of creative image and video links that Meta loads after ad cards appear.
- Kept video assets available in video-only searches so direct creative links are returned when Meta exposes them.

**0.2.0 — 2026-07-10**

- Added complete image and video arrays for dynamic creative variants, plus downloadable-media manifests.
- Added CTA, page details, and public spend, reach, impressions, and currency fields when available.
- Added optional landing-page and ecommerce enrichment and media reachability checks.
- Added strict date and maximum-item limits before billing, variant-aware duplicate prevention, and partial, truncated, and blocked-result diagnostics.

**0.1.0**

- Added public ad search by text or advertiser page with country, status, type, media, and date filters.