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Facebook and Instagram ads from the Meta Ad Library as rows

Marketers study competitor creative in the Meta Ad Library. The rows below are real ads from one run with page, platforms, start date, call to action and media type as columns.

The data (4 real rows)

pageNameisActivestartDateplatformstitlectaTextmediaTypevariationsCount
Perfect themesTrue2026-05-19["FACEBOOK", "INSTAGRAM", "AUDIENCE_NETWORK", "MESSENGER", "THRE...𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕕𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕡𝕡 ！Install nowimage1
DepopTrue2026-05-22["FACEBOOK", "INSTAGRAM", "MESSENGER"]{{product.name}}Downloadimage1
NikeTrue2026-09-01["FACEBOOK", "INSTAGRAM"]{{product.name}}Shop nowimage1
NikeTrue2025-06-20["FACEBOOK", "INSTAGRAM"]{{product.name}}Shop nowimage1

Rows come from the free sample file for this actor, not a full run. Long values are shortened and personal contact fields are left out. Source: apify-actor-samples/meta-ad-library.

What this slice shows

How to get this yourself

  1. Open the Facebook and Instagram ads from the Meta Ad Library actor on Apify.
  2. Give search terms, advertiser Page ids or pasted Ad Library URLs, plus country, active status and media filters; get one flat row per ad with advertiser, ad text, headline, link, call to action, image and video URLs, dates, platforms and variation count.
  3. Run it, then export the dataset as CSV, JSON or Excel from the results tab.

Limits, stated plainly

Returns only what the Ad Library publishes: no targeting, no exact spend for commercial ads and no ad performance. Spend and reach ranges appear only on political and issue ads. Meta rate-limits datacenter IPs, so residential proxy is the default. Image and video URLs are Meta CDN links that expire after some days. This page shows a small sample, so counts here say nothing about the whole dataset.

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