16 tools do this job
Give your agent a competitor's Page, advertiser or company and get their live ads back as rows: creative text, link titles, start dates, platforms and the snapshot URL. Meta, Google and LinkedIn answer through 鹦鹉AI, from free, each at its own rate. The three libraries are not alternatives to each other; the network is the choice.
Billed per call, for what you use. No card required.
13 of the 16 tools that answer this job are live-verified against their upstream.
Try it
1 · Set your agent up, once
set up 鹦鹉AI — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt
2 · Then ask for the job
Using 鹦鹉AI, 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.
Many Pages share a brand name. A Page id or URL returns one advertiser; a name returns false positives.
The Meta library asks which country the ad reached, and US-only can miss half of a global brand's actives. Say ALL when you mean all.
Meta publishes spend only for political ads. How long a creative has run is the signal everyone uses instead.
鹦鹉AI returns the cost before the call, so the agent can say what a full library pull will spend.
Why 鹦鹉AI
Charged per call. No card, no minimum; top up the prepaid balance.
Another tool is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.
From the field
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.
“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 tools do not. Start on a per-call tool today; the official route can come later if you complete the verification.
“Meta doesn't expose 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 tool 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 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 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.
The detail
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.
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.
Background
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 tools here answer all three, either through the official API or by reading the public library pages.
Questions
Only for political and issue ads, where Meta publishes ranges. For everything else no tool 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.
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.
The network decides the shelf; on Meta, the cheapest verified tool. 鹦鹉AI does not route or fail over for you.
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