LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper

LinkedIn Ad Library 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, which targeting criteria were 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, or paste any Ad Library link. Filter by country and date. No LinkedIn account, no login, no cookies — it reads the same public pages anyone can open, so no account of yours is ever at risk.

From $1.44 per 1,000 ads on paid plans. Impressions, targeting and landing page: from +$0.96 per 1,000. On the Apify Free plan: $1.60 and +$1.60 per 1,000. No start fee. Searches that find nothing and errors are free.

Tested head-to-head — 15 October 2026

Same job for this Actor and the five most-used LinkedIn ad library Actors in the Store: HubSpot's ads shown in the US, 20 ads, with ad details.

	This Actor	Other LinkedIn ad library Actors
Ads delivered (asked for 20)	20	0–20 (one returned an empty table with a green status, one stopped at 10 on the Free plan)
Columns per ad	47	17–30
Headline filled	19 of 20	1 of 20 at the most-used Actor
Image or video cover filled	20 of 20	13 of 20 at the most-used Actor
Time	27 s	5–56 s (53 s at the most-used Actor)
Price per 1,000 ads with details, Free plan	$3.20, no start fee	$4.00 + start fee at the most-used Actor

Impressions, run dates and targeting exist only for ads LinkedIn reports under the EU Digital Services Act — for a US-only search every Actor gets them for the same one ad in 20.

What is LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper?

A LinkedIn ads scraper and unofficial LinkedIn Ads API for competitor research on B2B advertising. LinkedIn has to publish 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.

Typical questions it answers: Which ads is my competitor running on LinkedIn 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 send people to?

It runs from the Apify Console, the API, a schedule, n8n, Make, Zapier or an MCP client, and it works without a browser, so even large exports finish in seconds.

What data can LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper extract?

Every ad row carries these fields:

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
text	Your CRM bill grows every time you hire…	Ad copy (shortened preview on search results; full text with details)
headline	Live-Webinar am 14.10.2026 um 11 Uhr	Headline of the creative
imageUrl	https://media.licdn.com/…	Ad image, video cover, article cover, document first page or first carousel card
url, adId	https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1558746953	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
senderName	Isla Sutherland	Message ads: who the message comes from
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 to every ad ($) and the Actor opens each ad's page in the Ad Library and adds:

Field	Example
paidBy	IXTENSA GmbH & Co. KG
ranFrom, ranTo, runDays	2026-09-24, 2026-09-30, 7
impressions, impressionsMin, impressionsMax	1k-5k, 1000, 5000
impressionsByCountry, topCountry	[{country: "Germany", share: "100%", percent: 100}], Germany
targetingLanguages, targetingLocations	["English"], ["Germany"]
targetedParameters, excludedParameters, targetingCriteria	["Audience", "Company", "Job"]
ctaText	Sign Up
landingUrl, landingDomain, utmParameters	https://lp.ixtensa.de/webinar…, lp.ixtensa.de, {utm_campaign: …, hsa_cam: …}
advertiserUrl, advertiserCompanyId	https://www.linkedin.com/company/7267658, 7267658
videoUrl	MP4 file of a video ad
text	the full ad copy instead of the shortened preview

Where impressions and targeting come from. LinkedIn publishes run dates, impressions by country and targeting for ads it reports under the EU Digital Services Act — ads that reached people in the EU. For an ad shown only outside the EU, LinkedIn's page carries the advertiser, payer and creative but no impressions or targeting, and those fields stay empty in your row. In our tests every ad found with a German or French country filter had impressions and targeting (64 of 64); with a US and UK filter, 3 of 10 did. The Actor never estimates numbers LinkedIn does not show.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape the LinkedIn Ad Library?

Pay per result, nothing else:

Event	Free plan	Starter (Bronze)	Scale (Silver)	Business (Gold)
Ad (from search results)	$0.0016 ($1.60 / 1K)	$0.00144 ($1.44 / 1K)	$0.0008 ($0.80 / 1K)	$0.00044 ($0.44 / 1K)
Ad details — impressions, countries, targeting, landing page	+$0.0016 (+$1.60 / 1K)	+$0.00096 (+$0.96 / 1K)	+$0.0004 (+$0.40 / 1K)	+$0.00036 (+$0.36 / 1K)
Searches with no ads, error rows, start of a run	free	free	free	free

So 1,000 ads with all details cost $2.40 on Starter, $1.20 on Scale, $0.80 on Business and $3.20 on the Free plan. Platinum and Diamond plans pay the Business price.

On the Apify free plan the monthly $5 credit buys about 3,100 ads without details or 1,550 with details. For comparison, the most-used LinkedIn ad library Actor in the Store charges $2 per 1,000 ads without details and $4 with details on the Free plan, $1.80 and $3.00 on Starter, $1.00 and $1.50 on Scale, $0.55 and $1.00 on Business, plus a start fee per run (Store prices on 15 October 2026). This Actor is 20% cheaper on every plan and has no start fee.

Monitoring is cheaper still: with Only new ads on, a daily run pays only for ads you have not received before — see below.

How to scrape LinkedIn ads

1. Open the Actor in the Apify Console 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…) and a Date range.
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 under 20 seconds.
7. Download the table as Excel, CSV or JSON, or open it in Google Sheets.

⬇️ Input

{
    "searchTerms": ["hubspot"],
    "searchType": "advertiser",
    "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, targeting, landing page ($)
dateRange	any, last-30-days, current-year, last-year
startDate, endDate	Exact range, YYYY-MM-DD
sortOrder	newest (default) or oldest
startUrls	LinkedIn Ad Library links instead of search terms
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).

Search LinkedIn ads by advertiser or company

"searchType": "advertiser" matches the advertiser's name. Matching is partial: hubspot returns HubSpot's own ads and those of HubSpot partners. For exactly one company use "searchType": "companyId" with the number from its LinkedIn URL — linkedin.com/company/1337 is LinkedIn itself; you can paste the whole URL. "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": "1558746953",
    "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1558746953",
    "advertiserName": "IXTENSA 🧡 HubSpot",
    "advertiserType": "company",
    "format": "Single Image Ad",
    "text": "Viele HubSpot-Kunden kämpfen mit denselben Problemen …",
    "headline": "Live-Webinar am 14.10.2026 um 11 Uhr",
    "imageUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/…",
    "isThoughtLeaderAd": false,
    "searchType": "advertiser",
    "searchTerm": "hubspot",
    "position": 1,
    "detailsScraped": true,
    "advertiserUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/7267658",
    "advertiserCompanyId": "7267658",
    "paidBy": "IXTENSA GmbH & Co. KG",
    "ranFrom": "2026-09-24",
    "ranTo": "2026-09-30",
    "runDays": 7,
    "impressions": "1k-5k",
    "impressionsMin": 1000,
    "impressionsMax": 5000,
    "topCountry": "Germany",
    "impressionsByCountry": [{ "country": "Germany", "share": "100%", "percent": 100 }],
    "targetingLanguages": ["English"],
    "targetingLocations": ["Germany"],
    "targetedParameters": ["Audience", "Company", "Job"],
    "ctaText": "Sign Up",
    "landingUrl": "https://lp.ixtensa.de/webinar-hubspot-probleme?utm_campaign=…",
    "landingDomain": "lp.ixtensa.de",
    "utmParameters": { "utm_campaign": "Webinar HubSpot Probleme", "hsa_cam": "775147223" },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T08:13:39+00:00"
}

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

Error rows

Explanations come after the ads, never above them, and are never charged:

• type: "notice", kind: "no-results" — a search that found no ads, with a hint what to change (error holds the text). A search with no ads is a valid answer, not a failure.
• type: "notice", kind: "input" — something in the input was corrected or ignored (an unknown country, Start date after End date — the two are swapped); the text is in notice. Country names such as Germany or USA are understood and need no correction.
• type: "error" — a line that could not be searched (a company name typed as an ID, a link that is not from the Ad Library, a search term without letters) or an ad page LinkedIn refused several times; the text is in error.

🔁 Get only new LinkedIn ads — schedule it

A one-off export is useful once; a feed of competitors' new ads is useful every day. Fill Only new ads — memory name (for example my-ads-watch) 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 set 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 ad runs. runDays and the order of ranFrom show which creatives they keep paying for.

Ad impressions by country and market sizing

impressionsByCountry shows where a campaign actually reached people. Compare competitors' footprint across European markets before you enter 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 copywriting

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 pitches and sales prospecting

Find companies that advertise on LinkedIn in a category (they have budget), then enrich them with our LinkedIn Company Scraper.

Landing page and UTM analysis

landingUrl and utmParameters reveal campaign names, LinkedIn campaign IDs (hsa_cam) and funnel pages.

Integrations

Apify API

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("lergassy/linkedin-ad-library-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchTerms": ["1337"],
    "searchType": "companyId",
    "maxAdsPerSearch": 50,
    "includeDetails": True,
})
for ad in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(ad["advertiserName"], ad["format"], ad.get("impressions"))

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('lergassy/linkedin-ad-library-scraper').call({
    searchTerms: ['crm'], countries: ['US'], maxAdsPerSearch: 100,
});
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 Sheets, use the Google Sheets integration on the Actor's Integrations tab.

MCP server for AI agents

Connect https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=lergassy/linkedin-ad-library-scraper to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask: "Which ads did HubSpot run in Germany in the last 30 days, and which countries got the most impressions?"

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Actor lergassy/linkedin-ad-library-scraper. Purpose: one row per LinkedIn ad from the public LinkedIn Ad Library; answers which ads an advertiser runs, in which formats, with which copy, and — with includeDetails — who paid, run dates, impressions by country, targeting and landing page.

Minimal input: {"searchTerms": ["hubspot"], "searchType": "advertiser"}

Output fields: type, adId, url, advertiserName, advertiserType, format, creativeType, text, textTruncated, headline, imageUrl, isThoughtLeaderAd, searchType, searchTerm, position, searchUrl, detailsScraped, scrapedAt; optional advertiserHeadline, advertiserLogoUrl, memberName, memberHeadline, memberPhotoUrl, description, carouselCards, documentTitle, documentPages, documentTotalPages, eventName, eventTime, eventLocation, senderName, senderPhotoUrl; with details advertiserUrl, advertiserCompanyId, paidBy, ranFrom, ranTo, runDays, impressions, impressionsMin, impressionsMax, topCountry, impressionsByCountry, targetingLanguages, targetingLocations, targetingExcludedLocations, targetedParameters, excludedParameters, targetingCriteria, ctaText, landingUrl, landingDomain, utmParameters, videoUrl, variantCount.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• startUrls overrides searchTerms. startDate/endDate override dateRange.
• maxAdsPerSearch defaults to 24 per search line.
• text is a ~120-character preview (textTruncated: true) unless includeDetails is on.
• Impressions and targeting exist only for ads LinkedIn reports under the EU DSA; empty means LinkedIn does not show them, not zero.
• advertiser matches names partially; use companyId for one exact company.
• Billed per ad row (ad) and per detailed ad (ad-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.

Can I use LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes — every run can be started and read over the REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients above. It works as a LinkedIn Ads API for ad intelligence.

Can I use it through an MCP server?

Yes, through the Apify MCP server; see Integrations. The input fields are designed so an agent can call the Actor correctly without reading this page.

Can I integrate it with other apps?

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

How much does a typical run cost?

On the Starter plan: 24 ads without details about $0.035, 1,000 ads with all details $2.40. On the Free plan: about $0.04 and $3.20. You see the cost of each run in the Console.

How many ads can I get per search?

Up to 5,000 per search line per run. LinkedIn serves 24 per page; 300 ads took 37 seconds in our test.

Why are impressions empty for some ads?

LinkedIn shows impressions, run dates and targeting only for ads it reports under the EU Digital Services Act. Ads that never reached the EU have no such data on LinkedIn's page.

Is it one row per ad?

Yes. The same ad found by two search lines in one run appears once.

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