LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper — Ads, Targeting & Reach | $1.75/1k

What does LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper do?

Get the ads companies run on LinkedIn as clean spreadsheet rows. The fast basic row comes straight from the search results: ad id, advertiser, ad format, ad text, headline, image or video poster and carousel cards. Switch on Include ad details and every ad also gets its advertiser's company page, the "Paid for by" entity, ad format (single image, video, carousel, document, text...), the full ad copy, headline, call-to-action button, landing URL, image and video links, the first and last day the ad was shown, the impressions range with the share per country, and the targeting the advertiser chose (language, locations, and which audience, company, job, education and demographic criteria were used).

Search the LinkedIn Ad Library by keyword, by advertiser (company) name or by payer, narrow it by country and date range, or paste Ad Library URLs and ad ids, and scrape LinkedIn ads into JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the Apify API. It works as a practical LinkedIn Ad Library API for marketers, agencies, analysts and AI agents: no LinkedIn account, no login, no cookies, nothing to install.

It reads only the public LinkedIn Ad Library, the pages LinkedIn shows to anyone who is not signed in. Only ads run by company pages are returned. Ads posted by individual members (including "thought-leader" ads, where a company promotes an employee's post) are skipped and never saved, so no member names, headlines, photos or profile links ever reach your dataset.

$1.75 per 1,000 ads (basic rows), $2.95 per 1,000 with details, plus $0.005 per run. Platform compute and residential proxy included.

Use cases for this LinkedIn ads scraper

• Competitor ad monitoring. Enter a competitor's name in Advertiser and schedule a weekly run: see every new creative, its CTA, landing page and how long it ran (firstShown, lastShown).
• Creative research and swipe files. Collect adText, headline, callToAction and imageUrl/videoUrl for a keyword like cybersecurity or payroll and see which hooks and formats B2B advertisers use.
• Targeting insights. targetingLocationsIncluded, targetingLanguage and targetingParameters show where and how a company aims its LinkedIn budget; impressionsByCountry shows where the ads were actually seen.
• Lead generation for agencies. Companies advertising on LinkedIn have a B2B marketing budget. Search your niche, group rows by advertiserName and advertiserUrl, and build a prospect list of active advertisers.
• Market and campaign research. Track how many ads a category runs per month with the date range filter, and which landing pages (landingUrl) they send traffic to.
• AI agents and automations. Call it with {"advertiser": "HubSpot", "maxItems": 50} from an MCP client, n8n, Make or Zapier and get structured rows back.

What data can LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper extract?

One row per ad. Fields marked D are filled only with Include ad details on (or when you give ad URLs/ids); detailsIncluded tells you which kind of row you have. The Overview table shows advertiserName, adFormat, adText, callToAction, landingUrl, firstShown, lastShown, impressionsRange, advertiserUrl, url, status and error.

Ad and advertiser

Field	Type	Description
adId	string	LinkedIn's numeric ad id, e.g. 1601068074.
url	string	The ad's Ad Library page, https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/<adId>.
advertiserName	string	Company page that ran the ad.
advertiserUrl	string	D The company's LinkedIn page.
advertiserCompanyId	string	D Numeric LinkedIn company id.
advertiserLogoUrl	string	Company logo image URL.
paidBy	string	D The entity in the "Paid for by" line.

Creative

Field	Type	Description
adFormat	string	Single Image Ad, Video Ad, Carousel Ad, Document Ad, Text Ad, Event Ad, ...
creativeType	string	LinkedIn's internal code, e.g. SPONSORED_STATUS_UPDATE, SPONSORED_VIDEO, SPONSORED_UPDATE_CAROUSEL.
adText	string	Ad copy (introductory text), line breaks kept. Basic rows carry LinkedIn's preview, which is cut after about 150 characters (ends with …); with details it is the full text.
headline	string	Headline under the image or video.
callToAction	string	D Button text, e.g. Learn more, Download, Sign Up, Register.
landingUrl	string	D Where the ad sends people (LinkedIn's own tracking parameter removed). Empty for ads without a link, e.g. lead-gen form ads.
imageUrl	string	Main image, or the poster frame of a video.
videoUrl	string	D Highest-quality MP4 of a video ad.
carouselCards	array	Carousel cards: title, imageUrl, and with details landingUrl.
detailsIncluded	boolean	true when the row was built from the ad's detail page (billed with the extra Ad details event), false for a basic row.

Dates, reach and targeting

Field	Type	Description
firstShown	string	D First day the ad was shown, YYYY-MM-DD.
lastShown	string	D Last day the ad was shown, YYYY-MM-DD.
impressionsRange	string	D Total impressions as LinkedIn reports them, e.g. < 1k, 1k-5k, 100k-250k.
impressionsByCountry	array	D Share of impressions per country: country, share (e.g. 28%).
targetingLanguage	string	D Targeted language(s).
targetingLocationsIncluded	array	D Targeted countries, regions and cities.
targetingLocationsExcluded	array	D Excluded locations.
targetingParameters	array	D Each targeting category (Audience, Demographic, Company, Education, Job, Member Interests and Traits) with targeted and excluded flags.

LinkedIn publishes dates, impressions and targeting for ads that were shown in the EU (Digital Services Act transparency). For ads shown only outside the EU those fields are empty.

Row status

Field	Type	Description
status	string	ok, not_found or error (below).
error	string	Reason when status is not ok.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 time the row was written.

status	Meaning	Billed?
ok	An ad run by a company page.	Yes
not_found	LinkedIn answered, but there is nothing to return: an unknown ad id, a search with no ads, or an ad posted by an individual member (skipped for privacy).	No
error	LinkedIn could not be read after retries. error says why.	No

How to scrape the LinkedIn Ad Library

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Type a Keyword and/or an Advertiser (company) name - or paste LinkedIn Ad Library URLs or ad ids into Ad Library URLs or ad ids.
3. Optional: add Countries (two-letter codes such as US, DE, GB) and a Date range (last 30 days, current month, current or last year, or your own start and end date).
4. Set Maximum results (the default 20 shows you the output in about a minute).
5. Click Start, then open the Output tab or export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

To automate it, use the API tab (Node.js, Python, curl) or add a Schedule.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	-	Keyword or phrase from the ad copy, e.g. cybersecurity.
advertiser	string	-	Company/advertiser name, e.g. Microsoft. Works alone or with a keyword.
payer	string	-	The "Paid for by" entity.
countries	array of strings	all	ISO two-letter codes of the countries where the ads were shown.
dateRange	string	all	last-30-days, current-month, current-year, last-year or custom-date-range.
startDate / endDate	string	-	YYYY-MM-DD for a custom range (LinkedIn keeps the last 12 months).
startUrls	array of strings	one example search	Ad Library search URLs (all filters kept), ad URLs or bare ad ids. The example is skipped as soon as you fill in Keyword, Advertiser or Paid for by.
maxItems	integer	20	Stop after this many ads.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Open every ad's detail page for the D fields (company page, landing URL, CTA, full text, dates, impressions, targeting). Billed as an extra Ad details event per ad.
datacenterProxy	boolean	false	Use Apify's datacenter proxy instead of residential. LinkedIn blocks most datacenter IPs on the Ad Library; leave it off.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL	Residential proxy, included in the price. Leave the proxy country empty: the Actor picks the exit countries LinkedIn serves best (the ads you get depend on Countries, not on the proxy).

Example input:

{
    "advertiser": "HubSpot",
    "countries": ["US", "GB"],
    "dateRange": "last-30-days",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Output

A basic row (default, from the search results):

{
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1648309166",
    "status": "ok",
    "adId": "1648309166",
    "advertiserName": "Ronin Advisory",
    "adFormat": "Video Ad",
    "advertiserLogoUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D560BAQGOcZYU-wShwA/company-logo_100_100/...",
    "creativeType": "SPONSORED_VIDEO",
    "adText": "We took AI for a spin. Things escalated quickly. ...",
    "headline": "The Chase Is Fictional. The Strategy Is Real.",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5610AQFLKgWOj7niZQ/videocover-high/...",
    "detailsIncluded": false,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T09:53:54.568Z"
}

A row with Include ad details on (ad text shortened):

{
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1601068074",
    "status": "ok",
    "adId": "1601068074",
    "advertiserName": "Quantum Security Defence",
    "advertiserUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/101691424",
    "advertiserCompanyId": "101691424",
    "paidBy": "Quantum Security and Defense Working Group lts",
    "adFormat": "Video Ad",
    "creativeType": "SPONSORED_VIDEO",
    "adText": "You don't need to be a physicist to understand why quantum technology matters. ...",
    "headline": "Quantum Business Bootcamp For Executives",
    "callToAction": "Learn more",
    "landingUrl": "https://quantumsecuritydefence.com/business-bootcamp/",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E10AQF15zCAsTRFng/videocover-high/...",
    "videoUrl": "https://dms.licdn.com/playlist/vid/v2/D4E10AQF15zCAsTRFng/progressive-servable-video/...",
    "firstShown": "2026-10-17",
    "lastShown": "2026-10-18",
    "impressionsRange": "< 1k",
    "targetingLanguage": "English",
    "targetingLocationsIncluded": ["Ireland", "United Kingdom"],
    "targetingParameters": [
        { "parameter": "Audience", "targeted": false, "excluded": false },
        { "parameter": "Company", "targeted": true, "excluded": false },
        { "parameter": "Job", "targeted": true, "excluded": false }
    ],
    "detailsIncluded": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T08:49:17.920Z"
}

An ad posted by an individual member is never returned. Basic rows simply skip it; when a detail page reveals one, its row is free and carries no member data:

{
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1595579694",
    "status": "not_found",
    "error": "Ad posted by an individual LinkedIn member (member or thought-leader ad), not by a company page; skipped for privacy.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-19T08:47:21.862Z"
}

How much does it cost to scrape LinkedIn ads?

Pay per event, platform compute and residential proxy included:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Ad (status: ok company ad)	$0.00175 per ad ($1.75 per 1,000)
Ad details (extra, only rows with detailsIncluded: true)	$0.0012 per ad ($1.20 per 1,000)

Examples: the default 20-ad run costs $0.04; 1,000 basic ads cost $1.755; 1,000 ads with details $2.955; 10,000 ads with details $29.505. Ad URLs or ids you paste are always read from the detail page, so they bill both events. Rows with status not_found or error are never billed. Cap spending with Maximum results and the run's Max total charge; the Actor stops cleanly when either is reached.

Speed and reliability

LinkedIn answers requests from most server and many residential IP addresses with "blocked". The Actor uses Apify's residential proxy, checks every proxy session with one tiny request before using it, and prefers the exit countries LinkedIn currently serves best, so blocked addresses never cost you rows. A session that gets blocked or throttled later is dropped and the request is retried at once on the next checked session. Basic rows come 24 ads per search page, at about 200 ads per minute (500 ads in about 2.5 minutes); with details expect about 60 ads per minute. The default 20-ad run takes well under a minute.

Tips

• One search shows ads in LinkedIn's order (newest first). For large advertisers, split by Countries or Date range to get more distinct ads.
• Keyword searches for broad words (leadership, career) return many member posts, which are skipped; an Advertiser search or a business keyword gives more company ads per page.
• Paste a search URL from the Ad Library in your browser to keep exactly the filters you set there.

Limitations

• Only ads by company pages are returned; member and thought-leader ads are skipped by design.
• Dates, impressions and targeting exist only for ads LinkedIn reports under EU transparency rules (ads shown in the EU); other ads have the creative and advertiser fields only.
• LinkedIn keeps about 12 months of ads; custom date ranges outside that return nothing.
• Impressions are ranges (e.g. 1k-5k), not exact numbers; spend is not published by LinkedIn.
• Ads without a destination link (lead-gen forms, some video ads) have no landingUrl.
• The run needs Apify Proxy: residential is on by default and included in the price.
• Basic rows include only ads whose advertiser shows a company logo; a company without a logo appears only with Include ad details on.

FAQ

Do I need a LinkedIn account or cookies? No. The Actor reads the public LinkedIn Ad Library without logging in.

Is it legal to scrape the LinkedIn Ad Library? The Ad Library is a public transparency tool, and the Actor collects only ads run by companies, no member data. You are responsible for how you use the data; read the notice below and LinkedIn's terms.

Basic rows or details? Basic rows answer "who advertises what": advertiser, format, text preview, headline, creative. Turn on details when you need landing pages, CTAs, run dates, impressions or targeting.

Why did I get fewer rows than Maximum results? The search had fewer company ads, some results were member ads (skipped, free), or the run's charge limit was reached. The run log says which.

Can I get the ad spend? No. LinkedIn does not publish spend, only impression ranges.

Can an AI agent call it? Yes. With no input at all it returns 20 recent cybersecurity ads. Agents can pass query, advertiser, countries and dateRange as plain values, and every row says whether it is data (ok), an empty answer (not_found) or a failure (error).

How fresh is the data? Every run reads LinkedIn live; nothing is cached.

Related Actors

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• LinkedIn Jobs Scraper - use it to see which advertisers are also hiring, and for which roles.
• Domain Intelligence Report - use it to profile the landing-page domains the ads send traffic to.
• Keyword Suggestions Scraper - use it to expand ad keywords into the search terms buyers type.
• Google Trends Scraper - use it to check demand for the topics competitors advertise.

Legal and data-protection notice

This Actor extracts only ads that LinkedIn publishes in its public Ad Library to visitors who are not signed in. It does not log in, does not solve challenges, and does not extract member data: ads posted by individual members are skipped, and no names, headlines, photos or profile links of members are returned. Ad copy is written by advertisers and can still mention a person; personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other laws worldwide, so do not use such data without a legitimate reason. You are responsible for complying with LinkedIn's terms of service and applicable law when you use the extracted data.

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by LinkedIn Corporation. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.