Free LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper — B2B Competitor Ad Spy

The free LinkedIn Ad Library scraper built for B2B competitor ad spy. Search any company on LinkedIn's official Ad Library and get the full ad — type, body text, headline, content images, advertiser logo, and detail deeplinks — as clean JSON.

The only practical free alternative to paid SaaS B2B ad-spy tools that charge $99-$499/month for the same data.

What you get

• Ad ID + deeplink to LinkedIn's ad detail page
• Advertiser company name + logo
• Ad type — Single Image, Video, Carousel, Document, Article
• Body text + headline
• Content image URLs (filters out profile / logo thumbnails)
• For person-promoted ads: person name + person title
• Total ad count for the search (from LinkedIn's own counter)
• Country + date-range filtering

Why scrape the LinkedIn Ad Library

LinkedIn's Ad Library is publicly accessible at /ad-library/search, but the page is server-side rendered with no public API. To programmatically pull LinkedIn ads at scale you have to scrape the HTML and parse the markup — which changes every few months.

This Actor handles the parsing for you and ships ready-to-use structured JSON. No LinkedIn login, no Sales Navigator subscription, no Marketing-Partner-API access required.

Input

Field	Default	Description
search	required	Company name or keyword
country	all	ISO 2-letter country code (filter the search results)
date_range	all	last_30_days / this_month / this_year / last_year
sort	NEWEST	NEWEST or OLDEST

Use cases

• B2B competitor ad spy — the cheapest way to track what your B2B competitors are advertising on LinkedIn
• SaaS / agency / consulting creative intelligence — what's working in your niche right now
• ABM monitoring — which competitors are running ads to your target account industries
• Personal brand / thought-leadership tracking — LinkedIn shows person-level promoted posts; this scrapes those too
• Competitive content research — Document Ads and Article Ads reveal what gated assets competitors are pushing

Output (sample)

{
  "ad_id": "1384570116",
  "deeplink": "https://www.linkedin.com/ad-library/detail/1384570116",
  "advertiser_name": "Asana",
  "ad_type": "Single Image Ad",
  "body_text": "Danone drives impact and innovation with Asana.",
  "headline": "Get your team aligned",
  "images": ["https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5610AQ…"],
  "advertiser_logo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E0BAQ…",
  "country": "US",
  "date_range": "all",
  "sort": "NEWEST",
  "total_ads_in_search": 24
}

Limits

• LinkedIn returns roughly 25 ads per search-result page; the Actor returns whatever's on the first page — use total_ads_in_search to know what you're missing
• LinkedIn rate-limits aggressively — if a run returns zero items, wait 10-30 minutes before retrying with the same query
• HTML parsing is fragile to LinkedIn redesigns — open an issue if a layout change breaks parsing

Related Actors — Free Ad Spy Suite

Pair this actor with the rest of the suite for full cross-platform competitor ad intelligence:

• Free Facebook Ad Library Scraper — every active Meta ad for any brand or page
• Free TikTok Ad Library Scraper — TikTok competitor ads with video URLs and dates
• Free Google Ads Transparency Scraper — every ad an advertiser ran on Google Search, YouTube, Display, Shopping

Run all four on the same competitor and you have the complete picture of what they're advertising across every major surface.