Meta Ad Library API, Google Ads Transparency Center and LinkedIn ads: what a competitor is running right now

What 100 of these actually costs

Subscription figures are provider list prices recorded in olywork.com’s own catalog grid; per-call prices are what olywork.com charges today, with $0.000 added.

What’s the best way to ask ChatGPT?

set up olywork — https://olywork.com/llms.txt

Using olywork, list every Facebook and Instagram ad this Page has run in the US in the last 30 days, show me the price first, then group them by landing page and tell me which creatives have been live longest.

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Why this prompt works

Why go through olywork.com

What ChatGPT sees before it calls

olywork.com does not choose for you. It hands ChatGPT this comparison, with the price shown before any call, and ChatGPT picks. Or you tell it how: "cheapest", "most reliable", "the one that takes what I have", or a provider by name.

Which ad library API is cheapest?

Those units are not interchangeable: one call can return many results, so compare on the unit you will actually be billed in.

How do the providers compare, per network?

Google Keyword Data

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
Adyntel	$0.011 per found	company_domain, media_type, continuation_token, extract_text	not yet measured	2026-09-22
SerpApi	$0.015 per found	engine, text, advertiser_id, region, political_ads, platform	not yet measured	2026-07-28

LinkedIn

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
HarvestAPI	$0.0016 per call	keyword, accountOwner, countries, dateOption, startdate, enddate	not yet measured	2026-09-10
ScrapeCreators	$0.00188 per call	company, keyword, companyId, countries, startDate, endDate	not yet measured	2026-07-28
Adyntel	$0.011 per found	company_domain, linkedin_page_id, continuation_token, extract, live_ads, keyword	not yet measured	2026-09-22

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
ScrapeCreators	$0.00188 per call	query, sort_by, search_type, ad_type, country, status	not yet measured	unverified
Apify	$0.005 per result	maxItems, maxTotalChargeUsd, timeout, startUrls, resultsLimit, activeStatus	not yet measured	2026-07-31
Adyntel	$0.011 per found	keyword, country_code, continuation_token, company_domain, facebook_url, media_type	not yet measured	2026-09-22
Meta Ad Library	free, your own account	search_terms, search_type, ad_reached_countries, fields, ad_active_status, ad_type	not yet measured	unverified

Run one

olywork call adyntel.google.ads.transparency --data '{"company_domain":"tesla.com"}'

Swap the id for any provider above. All 13 endpoints behind this job, with their parameters and captured responses, are on the Google Keyword Data, LinkedIn, Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) shelf.

How these numbers are made

What people actually struggle with

Ad intelligence is a crowded shelf: about seventeen tools were pitched across the ~65 on-topic posts on Reddit and X in August 2026, including one founder posting a dozen times. These four are people who tried the official libraries first.

Meta's identity check is the first wall, and it does not always answer

“I've sent my id however 4 days passed and there is no answer. It is still "in progress".” r/FacebookAds

What this page can do about it: The official API waits on that check; the scraper rows do not. Start on a per-call provider today, and register your own Meta token when the verification lands so the official calls run free.

There is no spend number, so people watch launch velocity instead

“Meta doesn't expose dollar spend for non-political ads, so "velocity" = ad-launch volume not actual budget” r/FacebookAds

What this page can do about it: True, and no provider here changes it. What the rows do carry is start date, stop date and platform per ad, which is enough for an agent to count new creatives a week and flag the ones that have survived a month.

Google only lets you look at one advertiser at a time

“Google only lets you look up one advertiser at a time. There's no way to answer "who is running ads on roof repair right now?"” r/marketingagency

What this page can do about it: Still the case through the API, because it is the Center's own shape. The honest workaround is a list: give the agent the advertisers you already know and let it loop, at a flat rate per lookup.

The library gives you data, not intelligence

“The Ad Library gives you data, but not much intelligence. You end up opening hundreds of ads manually” r/FacebookAds

What this page can do about it: The rows come back as JSON with the creative text, so grouping by landing page, clustering hooks and ranking by run length is the agent's job on top, and it is the part that used to be a weekend of tabs.

What actually differs

The official Meta route is free and it is yours to set up: a one-time government-ID verification at Facebook, then a Meta app and an access token, which you register with olywork.

com as your own key. The forum wait for verification runs from days to never. The two scraper providers on the Meta row need none of that and bill per call or per ad, which is why most people start there and register a token later, if ever.

Spend is not on the page for ordinary ads.

Meta publishes spend and impression ranges for political and issue ads only, and richer fields for ads reaching the EU under the DSA, so a European pull carries more than a US one. For everything else the working signals are how long a creative has run and how many variants a Page is testing.

Google is a lookup, not a search.

The Transparency Center lists what one advertiser runs, by advertiser or domain, and that is what the SerpApi engine here returns, with region, format and date filters. There is no keyword search across every advertiser, which is a limit of the Center, and the copy of a search ad comes back as text only where Google renders it as text.

What is the Meta Ad Library API?

The Meta Ad Library is the public record of every ad running on Facebook and Instagram, and the Ad Library API is its official query interface: search by keyword or by Page, filter by country, date and status, and get the creative, the delivery dates and the platforms back as data. Google's equivalent is the Ads Transparency Center, which has no official API and lists ads per advertiser; LinkedIn's is its ad library. The providers here answer all three, either through the official API on your own token or by reading the public library pages.

Before you start

Do I need Meta Ad Library API access?

Not to start. ScrapeCreators and Apify read the public library without any Meta app, billed per call or per ad. If you have completed Meta's identity verification and hold a token, register it and the official calls run free on your own key, never metered.

Can I see how much a competitor is spending?

Only for political and issue ads, where Meta publishes ranges. For everything else no provider has the number, and this page will not invent one. Run length, variant count and the platforms an ad reaches are what the data does carry.

Does this cover Google Ads?

Yes, per advertiser, through the Ads Transparency Center engine at SerpApi's flat per-search rate. You look up an advertiser or a domain; searching every advertiser for a keyword is not something the Center offers.

Which provider should my agent use?

The network decides the shelf; on Meta, the cheapest verified row or your own token. olywork.com shows the rows side by side with the rate and measured success; it compares, it does not route or fail over for you.

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