How to Scrape Facebook Ad Library — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Facebook Ad Library data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Facebook Ad Library Scraper - Meta Ads Spy Tool, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Facebook Ad Library login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

pageName
bodyText
publisherPlatform
status
startDate
spendLowerBound
adLibraryUrl
adArchiveId
pageId
pageUrl
pageProfilePicture
pageCategories
pageLikeCount
isActive

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/meta-ad-library-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install meta-ad-library-scraper

const scrape = require("meta-ad-library-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install meta-ad-library-scraper

from meta_ad_library_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`searchTerms`	array	Search terms (keywords / advertiser names)
`pageIds`	array	Advertiser Page IDs
`country`	string	Country
`adType`	string	Ad type
`activeStatus`	string	Active status
`mediaType`	string	Media type
`maxResults`	integer	Max results
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy

Common use cases

Build a fresh Facebook Ad Library dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Facebook Ad Library records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Facebook Ad Library data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.