# ScrapeWhale, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Active and recent ads for a Facebook page from the Meta Ad Library, including creative text, CTA, format, dates, and the raw ad nodes in data.

ScrapeWhale's Facebook Ad Library API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. ScrapeWhale's docs list 6 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
We haven't run ScrapeWhale through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 136 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.89 per 1,000 ads or less. [See how many Facebook Ad Library API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
[Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) 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/scrapewhale/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrapewhale.dev/api/v1/ads/meta`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/facebook-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeWhale (https://scrapewhale.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Run dates: ✓
- Platforms: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Call to action: ✓
- Advertiser: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 ads: $0.00
- Per: page of 30
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Repeat free: 6 hours
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 44 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Active and recent ads for a Facebook page from the Meta Ad Library, including creative text, CTA, format, dates, and the raw ad nodes in data.

## Data

- Freshness: 6 hours
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 credits
- Enough for: 5 pages

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: one of page_id, slug or url. Optional: max_pages
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/ads/meta

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up for an account, no credit card

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

page ID, total results, ad archive ID, start date, publisher platforms, ad text, ad title, call to action text, display format, images, videos

## ScrapeWhale's plans (4)

- [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 6 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $9.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapewhale/9-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 86% complete, 6 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $19.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapewhale/19-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.603 per 1,000, 86% complete, 6 hours
- [ScrapeWhale, $49.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapewhale/49-90-pack/llms.txt): $0.554 per 1,000, 86% complete, 6 hours

## ScrapeWhale's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/v1/ads/meta`: [ScrapeWhale, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/scrapewhale/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapeWhale: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [DataBlue, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/datablue/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.362 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Adyntel, top-up from $0.55](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/adyntel/top-up-from-0-55/llms.txt): $0.367 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £49 pack, Growth, GET /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads, List Facebook Ad Library company ads](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialcrawl/49-pack-growth-get-v1-facebook-adlibrary-company-ads-list-facebook-ad-library-company-ads/llms.txt): $0.544 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Zembra, top-up from $17,362](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zembra/top-up-from-17362/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 14% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/facebook-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/apis/linkedin-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://scrapewhale.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing