# Track Political Ad Spending on Facebook and Instagram

**Use case:** 

Political and issue ads carry data commercial ads do not: spend ranges, impression ranges, reach estimates and the funding entity behind them. This searches that category specifically. On a verified run every ad returned a spend range and currency. Figures are published as buckets such as $350K to $400K, never exact numbers, and currency varies by market.

## Input

```json
{
  "searchMode": "search_ads",
  "searchTerms": [
    "climate policy",
    "immigration reform"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "US"
  ],
  "status": "ALL",
  "mediaType": "ALL",
  "searchType": "keyword_unordered",
  "sortBy": "total_impressions",
  "languages": [],
  "adType": "political_and_issue_ads",
  "maxItems": 30,
  "maxItemsPerTerm": 0,
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 0,
  "enrichment": false,
  "longRunningDays": 30,
  "advertiserProfiles": false,
  "landingPageReport": false,
  "separateTables": false,
  "getTranscript": false,
  "trim": false,
  "llmAnalysis": false,
  "strategySummary": false,
  "llmModel": "claude-opus-5"
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "_meta": {
    "label": "Mode / input",
    "format": "object"
  },
  "ad_archive_id": {
    "label": "Ad ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "adArchiveID": {
    "label": "Ad ID",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "page_name": {
    "label": "Page",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "pageName": {
    "label": "Page",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "name": {
    "label": "Company",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "is_active": {
    "label": "Active",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "isActive": {
    "label": "Active",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "publisher_platform": {
    "label": "Platforms",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "publisherPlatform": {
    "label": "Platforms",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "snapshot": {
    "label": "Creative",
    "format": "object"
  },
  "start_date_string": {
    "label": "Start",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "end_date_string": {
    "label": "End",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "startDateString": {
    "label": "Start",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "endDateString": {
    "label": "End",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Meta Ad Library Scraper - Facebook & Instagram [NO COOKIES] ✅](https://apify.com/unseenuser/meta-ads.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/unseenuser/meta-ads.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

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