Track political ad spending on Facebook in the US
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Export political and issue ads from the Meta Ad Library with spend and impression ranges, who paid for them, platforms and dates. Spend comes as Meta's text range plus lower and upper numbers, ready for charts. This example collects active and inactive US ads about climate. For journalists, researchers and campaign analysts.
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For each political or issue ad, the political ad spend task returns Meta's spend and impression ranges as text plus lower and upper numbers, the currency, the paid-for-by line, platforms and start and end dates.
Meta publishes political ad spend and impressions only as ranges, such as $1K to $5K. The political ad spend task keeps Meta's text and adds numeric lower and upper bounds, so you can add them up and chart them.
Change the keyword and the country in the political ad spend task. Meta keeps political and issue ads in its Ad Library for 7 years, active and inactive.
The Meta Ad Library is a public transparency tool. The political ad spend task collects only what Meta shows publicly. Results can include public names of political advertisers, so use them for a legitimate purpose.
The political ad spend task costs $0.60 per 1,000 ads on the Apify Free plan and $0.50 on Starter, less on Scale and Business, plus $0.003 per run. Failed sources and duplicates are never charged.