# Scrape.ly, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Extract public ads from the Meta Ad Library by page, keyword, or Ad Library URL: creatives, run dates, platforms, and delivery status, ready for competitor ad research.

Scrape.ly's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. Scrape.ly's docs list all 7 key fields we check: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
We haven't run Scrape.ly through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 133 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 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.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt), [AdLibAPI](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adlibapi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Metapi](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/metapi/299-monthly-scale-post-v1-tasks-from-url/llms.txt) are the best Facebook Ad Library API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrape.ly/v2/actors/echofield~facebook-ads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/facebook-ads-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scrape.ly (https://scrape.ly?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Ad status: ✓
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Call to action: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 587 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract public ads from the Meta Ad Library by page, keyword, or Ad Library URL: creatives, run dates, platforms, and delivery status, ready for competitor ad research.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You decide what you collect and for what purpose, and you are solely responsible for Your Content, for having all rights, permissions and legal bases, and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites your runs access. [...] Some Actors find or collect information about people, if you use them you are the controller of the results and must meet your duties to the people concerned. You must not use them to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, housing or benefits, to stalk, harass or expose anyone, or for any other unlawful purpose. [...] If you run Actors that find information about people, you must have a lawful purpose for each run and must not use the results to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or benefits (or for any other purpose that makes them a consumer report under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar law), to stalk, harass, intimidate, dox or locate anyone against their will, for illegal surveillance, to discriminate, or for unsolicited marketing. [...] You must not use the Services to: 1. break any law, or infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, database, trademark and trade-secret rights, 2. create, store or distribute child sexual abuse material, terrorist content or other illegal content, 3. commit or support fraud, phishing, scams, identity theft or money laundering, 4. send spam or unsolicited bulk messages, or create fake accounts, engagement, reviews or traffic, 5. run malware, ransomware, spyware, backdoors or keyloggers, or any code designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system, 6. carry out denial-of-service attacks, or scan or test systems you are not authorised to test, 7. mine cryptocurrency, or use our resources for purposes unrelated to the Actors you run, 8. engage in a practice prohibited by Article 5 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), such as manipulative or exploitative techniques, social scoring, or building facial-recognition databases by untargeted scraping of facial images, 9. breach sanctions or export control law, 10. probe, scan, attack or overload our infrastructure, escape the run environment, or access other users' data, runs or accounts, 11. avoid or manipulate billing, usage limits, spending caps or rate limits, including by misusing an Actor's charging mechanism, 12. hold more than one free account per person or organisation, or use fake identities or other methods to obtain free or promotional credit, 13. resell, sublicense or provide access to the Services as a service to third parties, except by running Actors to deliver your own products and services, or with our written consent, 14. manipulate Store rankings, ratings, reviews, usage statistics or bookmarks, or post false reviews or issues, 15. impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation, or 16. help or encourage anyone else to do any of these things.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5 a month
- Enough for: about 1,014 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 16.67
- Concurrent: 5

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: startUrls. Optional: resultsLimit, activeStatus, sorting, onlyAdsNewerThan, onlyAdsOlderThan, onlyTotal, includeAboutPage, isDetailsPerAd, enrichWithEcommerceData, proxyConfiguration
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/actors/echofield~facebook-ads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 with full legal capacity

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, page ID, page name, is active, start date, end date, publisher platforms, ad title, ad text, call to action text, call to action type, link URL, images, videos, cards, spend, reach estimate

## Scrape.ly's plans (5)

- [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/19-monthly/llms.txt): $4.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.57 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/999-monthly/llms.txt): $2.89 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrape.ly, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Scrape.ly's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/actors/echofield~facebook-ads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items`: [Scrape.ly, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrape-ly/free/llms.txt)

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## Scrape.ly: 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
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads, List Facebook Ad Library company ads, full](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack-pro-get-v1-facebook-adlibrary-company-ads-list-facebook-ad-library-company-ads-full/llms.txt): $3.101 per 1,000, 86% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://scrape.ly/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/facebook-ads-library-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/api/linkedin-profile-api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/docs/api-overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/acceptable-use.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/legal/terms.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrape.ly/store/echofield/facebook-ads-scraper.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing