Facebook Ads Library Scraper
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Facebook Ads Library Scraper
Search the official Meta Ad Library API: the public archive of ads on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Audience Network, WhatsApp and Threads. Structured JSON per ad. Bring your own free Meta token. Free while in launch promo.
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Omar Gamal
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The Facebook Ads Library Scraper searches Meta's official Ad Library API - the same public ad archive behind facebook.com/ads/library - and returns structured JSON for ads running (or previously run) on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Audience Network, WhatsApp and Threads.
Free while in launch promo. No scraping, no proxies, no blocks: this actor is a thin wrapper over Meta's own API, so it is stable by design.
What you get per ad
- Advertiser: page ID + page name, and a live
adSnapshotUrlto view the creative - Creative: body text, link titles, descriptions, captions
- Delivery: start/stop times, creation time, platforms, languages, countries reached
- For political / social-issue ads also: spend range, impressions range, estimated audience size, aggregate demographic and per-region delivery breakdowns
What you need (5 minutes, free)
The Ad Library API requires your own free Meta access token. This is Meta's requirement, not ours - there is no way around it, and any tool claiming otherwise is scraping against Meta's rules:
- Confirm your identity with Meta at facebook.com/ID.
- Go to developers.facebook.com, create a free developer account, then create an app (type: any, e.g. "Business").
- In the app dashboard open Tools > Graph API Explorer.
- Click Generate Access Token and copy it.
- Paste it into this actor's Meta access token input and run.
Explorer tokens live about an hour; Meta's long-lived token docs explain the 60-day exchange.
Example
Search terms ["real estate"], countries ["AE"], max results 100: you get up
to 100 property ads currently reaching the UAE, each with advertiser page,
creative text, platforms and start date.
FAQ
Why a token? Meta gates the Ad Library API behind a free developer token; it keeps the data official and your account safe. Does it scrape Facebook? No - every row comes from Meta's official API. Historical ads? Commercial ads show currently active delivery; political and social-issue ads include archived spend/impression ranges.
Cost
The actor itself is free. Runs use a few seconds of Apify compute, so a typical run costs a fraction of a cent of Apify usage.
