Free TikTok Ad Library Scraper — Competitor Ad Spy

The free TikTok Ad Library scraper. Search TikTok's official Ad Library by keyword, advertiser name, or business ID across 50+ regions — get video URLs, cover images, impressions, spend ranges, dates, and rejection info as clean JSON.

Built for TikTok competitor ad spy, creator marketing intelligence, and brand monitoring on TikTok.

What you get

• Ad ID, advertiser name, audit status, ad type (image / video / carousel)
• First-shown / last-shown dates + total days running
• Estimated audience size + impression bucket + spend bucket
• Video URLs + cover image URLs (downloadable directly)
• Image URLs (carousel ads)
• Rejection reasons + affected regions where TikTok disclosed them
• Pagination via offset + search_id
• 50+ region support (Note: TikTok Ad Library does not support region=US — use region=all to include US ads in the global result set)

Why use a TikTok Ad Library scraper

TikTok's Ad Library has no public API. Their official site library.tiktok.com requires a browser session and JavaScript rendering, and aggressively rate-limits unauth requests. To programmatically pull TikTok ads at scale you have to scrape the internal /api/v1/search endpoint and parse the responses.

This Actor handles the rotating IPs, the parameter validation, and the audit-status / ad-type translation so you get clean structured JSON ready for analysis.

Input

Field	Default	Description
search	—	Advertiser name or keyword. One of search / ad_id / adv_biz_ids is required
ad_id	—	Specific ad ID lookup (returns deeplink only — TikTok has no public detail API)
adv_biz_ids	—	TikTok advertiser business ID
region	all	ISO country code or all. NOT US (TikTok policy)
query_type	1	1 = by advertiser name, 0 = by keyword
sort	last_shown_date,desc	See INPUT_SCHEMA enum for all options
start_date	-365d	YYYY-MM-DD lower bound
end_date	now	YYYY-MM-DD upper bound
limit	20	1-100 ads per request
offset	0	Pagination offset

Use cases

• TikTok competitor ad spy — see every ad a brand is running
• Creator / influencer benchmarking — pull ad creatives by category
• Brand monitoring on TikTok — alert on new creative refreshes
• Cross-platform creative analysis — pair with Meta + Google + LinkedIn ad library scrapers for full competitor intelligence
• Ad-rejection research — see which categories TikTok rejects most often in which regions

Limits

• TikTok Ad Library does not support region=US — returns 400 for any US-region query (TikTok policy)
• TikTok has no public ad-detail API — ad_id lookup returns the deeplink only
• Spend / impression are bucket strings (e.g. $1k-$5k), not exact numbers
• Some regions return zero results when the advertiser is not active there

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 LinkedIn Ad Library Scraper — B2B ad spy across LinkedIn
• 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.