# ShortsIntel, free: Facebook Ad Library API

> Search by keyword or Advertiser, filtered by country, status, kind, media type, placement and start date, in four sort orders.

ShortsIntel's Starter Grant plan for the Facebook Ad Library API costs $0.00 per 1,000 ads. ShortsIntel's docs list all 7 fields on our checklist: Ad status, Run dates, Platforms, Text, Media, Call to action, Advertiser.
We haven't run ShortsIntel through [our Facebook Ad Library API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 140 plans for Facebook Ad Library APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.79 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/shortsintel/free
- [Facebook Ad Library API: the 10 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-facebook-ad-library-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://www.shortsintel.com/v1/ads/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/reference/ads/search-ads?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- Sold by: ShortsIntel (https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## 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

- Extra fields: one-line summary, niches, languages, full transcription, timestamped transcription, hook text, hook archetype, angle, offer type: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Research a niche · Refresh a research's videos · Run a Creator Breakdown · Search videos by keyword · Look up a video by URL · Look up a video by id · Analyse a video · Score a video against its creator · Read a video's comments · Read a comment's replies · Look up a creator and baseline · Page a creator's stored videos · Look up a hashtag's trend · Page a hashtag's videos · Look up a sound's trend · Page a sound's videos · Sample a keyword search · Look up a Meta Ad by id · Get a TikTok Ad · Look up an advertiser profile · Start tracking a target · Run a tracker cycle now · Set or clear a tracker's focus · Preview a focus on a tracker

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search by keyword or Advertiser, filtered by country, status, kind, media type, placement and start date, in four sort orders.

## Data

- Freshness: 6 hours
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Derived works are permitted. You may analyse, transform, combine and build on the API output, and you may distribute and commercialise the results [...] Reselling the raw data is not permitted. You may not: resell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make available the raw records or bulk API output as a data product, feed, export or dataset, whether for a fee or free of charge, republish raw records in bulk, or mirror, replicate or reconstruct the ShortsIntel corpus or any substantial part of it, including by systematic enumeration of the API, use the API or its output to build, train or operate a substitute for the Service, or a competing short-form video data service, use the output to identify, target, profile, score or make decisions about individual people, including creators and commenters, or to enable anyone else to do so, remove, obscure or misrepresent the provenance of data obtained through the Service where you are permitted to display it. Upstream restrictions pass through. [...] Where those providers or platforms impose restrictions on the use, retention or redistribution of that data, those restrictions apply to you as well

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: library "meta", advertiser. Optional: country, status, kind, media_type, placements, started_after, started_before, limit, cursor, order_by, analyze, wait, max_credits, estimate
- Method: POST
- Path: /ads/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter Grant
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

ad archive ID, ad library URL, page ID, page name, is active, start date, end date, publisher platforms, ad title, ad text, call to action text, link URL, display format, media types, images, videos, thumbnail, impressions, spend, currency, targeted or reached countries, variant count, total active time, estimated audience size, next cursor, ad kind, winner score

## ShortsIntel's plans (5)

- [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $10 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/10-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/20-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/50-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours
- [ShortsIntel, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/100-pack/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 6 hours

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

- `POST /ads/search`: [ShortsIntel, free](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel's APIs (11)

- [ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook page API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-page-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok Ad Library API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-ad-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: video search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/shortsintel/free/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Facebook post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: Instagram post API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: TikTok video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle/llms.txt)
- [ShortsIntel: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans, GET /creators/{platform}/{handle}/videos](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/shortsintel/free-starter-grant-get-creators-platform-handle-videos/llms.txt)

## ShortsIntel: Facebook Ad Library API alternatives

- [Zembra, top-up from $6,862](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/zembra/top-up-from-6862/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Parse, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/parse/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/prolevelmax/10000-pack/llms.txt): $1.044 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads, List Facebook Ad Library company ads](https://datacircle.dev/facebook-ad-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-facebook-adlibrary-company-ads-list-facebook-ad-library-company-ads/llms.txt): $1.333 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 2026-11-07.

- https://www.shortsintel.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/authentication-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/docs/concepts/pricing-and-estimates?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/meta-ad-library-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/openapi.v1.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing
- https://www.shortsintel.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=facebook-ad-library-api-pricing