# AdScrape, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Programmatic access to the Meta Ad Library — search, ingest, download. One small REST surface, the same data the dashboard renders, ready in under a minute.

AdScrape's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Platforms, Text, Media, Advertiser.
We haven't run AdScrape through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 118 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.494 per 1,000 ads or less.
[Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 ads: $0.00074. Zapi charges for each page of results. We count 30 ads on each page to get the $0.00074 price.
[Metapi](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/metapi/299-monthly-scale-post-v1-tasks-from-url/llms.txt), [Adyntel](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/top-up-from-0-55/llms.txt) and [ScrapeCreators](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapecreators/47-pack/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: 7 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.adscrape.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.adscrape.in/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.adscrape.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.adscrape.in/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing#search
- Sold by: AdScrape (https://adscrape.in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- Ad status: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: Ad Analyser: 1 run · from the same budget: Continue a search · Brand autocomplete · Download a single creative

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Programmatic access to the Meta Ad Library — search, ingest, download. One small REST surface, the same data the dashboard renders, ready in under a minute.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Permitted use: Market research, creative inspiration, competitive analysis, journalism, academic research, political ad transparency reporting, internal dashboards and product integrations. Prohibited use: Re-identification of individuals from public ad records, building a paid mirror that undercuts Meta's policy obligations, training models that produce defamatory or deceptive political content, automated harassment, or any use that violates Meta's TOS. Attribution: When you display ad creatives publicly, credit "Meta Ad Library" as the source. [...] You may cache responses indefinitely for internal product use. If you republish creatives, honor any takedown signals from Meta within 72 hours. [...] You agree NOT to: Resell raw AdScrape data or our API in a way that competes with us, without a written commercial agreement. Use AdScrape to harass, dox, or target individuals. Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems without prior written consent. Circumvent rate limits or quotas through multiple accounts, scripted signups, or scraping our UI.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 10 results

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Concurrent: 8
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of query, page_id or ad_library_url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: max_results, sort_by, country, status, media_type, ad_type, exact_phrase
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over able to enter a binding contract in their jurisdiction

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

total ads, search type, search identifier, sort order, unique platforms, pages scraped, time taken, credits used, ad archive ID, page name, page ID, ad text, ad title, images, impressions, spend, publisher platforms, is active, next cursor, has more, results returned

## AdScrape's plans (4)

- [AdScrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [AdScrape, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/49-monthly/llms.txt): $9.80 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [AdScrape, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/99-monthly/llms.txt): $4.95 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [AdScrape, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/299-monthly/llms.txt): $2.99 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored

## AdScrape's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v1/search`: [AdScrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/free/llms.txt)

## AdScrape's APIs (1)

- [AdScrape: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adscrape/free/llms.txt)

## AdScrape: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [1Lookup, $2,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/1lookup/2990-yearly/llms.txt): $2.931 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Parse, $30 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/parse/30-monthly/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $12](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zembra/top-up-from-12/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Foreplay, $588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/foreplay/588-yearly/llms.txt): $4.90 per 1,000, 100% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://www.adscrape.in/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.adscrape.in/meta-ads/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.adscrape.in/meta-ads/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.adscrape.in/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.adscrape.in/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing