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

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 one treg.to key, from $0.005 at the provider's own rate with no markup, or free on the Meta Ad Library token you set up yourself. The three libraries are not alternatives to each other; the network is the choice.

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3 of 7 endpoints on this page are live-verified against the provider.

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Try it

What’s the best way to ask ChatGPT?

1Set your agent up, once

in your agent's chat

set up treg — https://treg.to/llms.txt

2Ask for the job

the prompt

Using treg, 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.

works in

Why this prompt works

Give the Page id, not the name

Many Pages share a brand name. A Page id or URL returns one advertiser; a name returns false positives.

Say the country

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.

Read longevity, not spend

Meta publishes spend only for political ads. How long a creative has run is the signal everyone uses instead.

Ask for the price first

treg.to returns the cost before the call, so the agent can say what a full library pull will spend.

Why treg.to

Why go through treg.to

One key, not 9 accounts

treg.to holds the provider keys. Neither you nor the agent sees them.

Price before the call

The provider's own rate, $0.000 markup, from a prepaid balance.

No subscription, no seats

Charged per call. $1.00 free per new team, no card to start.

Your own keys are free

Already pay Hunter? Register it and those calls are never metered.

Switch by changing a word

Another provider is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

Nothing to integrate

No SDK, no OAuth dance per vendor, no seats.

Behind the scenes

What ChatGPT sees before it calls

treg.to 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?

Cheapest per result

Apify at $0.005 · Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)

Cheapest per call

ScrapeCreators at $0.00188 · LinkedIn

Cheapest per found

SerpApi at $0.015 · Google Keyword Data

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

Which one is the most reliable?

Provider	Success	Median	Sample
ScrapeCreators	100%	3.0s	617 calls
ScrapeCreators	100%	4.3s	6 calls
Apify	100%	11.5s	34 calls

Measured on treg.to traffic: real calls, real inputs, and sample sizes differ by provider. Live reliability, not a controlled benchmark.

How do the providers compare, per network?

Google Keyword Data

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
SerpApi	$0.015 per found	engine, text, advertiser_id, region, political_ads, platform	not yet measured	2026-07-28

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
ScrapeCreators	$0.00188 per call	company, keyword, companyId, countries, startDate, endDate	100% (6 calls)	2026-07-28

Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram)

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
ScrapeCreators	$0.00188 per call	query, sort_by, search_type, ad_type, country, status	100% (617 calls)	unverified
Apify	$0.005 per result	maxItems, maxTotalChargeUsd, timeout, startUrls, resultsLimit, activeStatus	100% (34 calls)	2026-07-31
Meta Ad Library	free, your own account	search_terms, search_type, ad_reached_countries, fields, ad_active_status, ad_type	(1 calls)	unverified

Run one

the cheapest verified call

treg call apify.meta-ads.library.search --query maxItems=1 --query maxTotalChargeUsd=0.05 --query timeout=180 --data '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=US&q=project%20management"}],"resultsLimit":1,"activeStatus":"active","isDetailsPerAd":false,"onlyTotal":true}'

Swap the id for any provider above. All 7 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

PricesEach provider’s own published rate, converted to US dollars for one chargeable event of the unit they bill in. treg.to adds $0.000. Where a provider bills in credits, the conversion uses the rate on their public pricing page, last checked 2026-07-31.

Success ratetreg.to’s own served calls over the last 30 days: 2xx counts as a success, 5xx and timeouts as a failure. A 4xx is excluded, because it usually means the caller sent bad parameters and one bad query should not make a healthy endpoint look broken.

What this is notA controlled benchmark. These are real calls with real inputs, so sample sizes and the difficulty of what was asked differ by provider. Treat the rates as live reliability, not a like-for-like test.

VerifiedThe date treg.to last called the endpoint end to end and confirmed the shape of its response and the price it charged.

From the field

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.

The detail

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 treg.

to 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.

Questions

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. treg.to shows the rows side by side with the rate and measured success; it compares, it does not route or fail over for you.