Marketing, demand and conversion · Ad transparency and creative intelligence
Meta Ad Library API
Licence or access: gated proprietary Graph API; high within scope
- status and fit
- gated proprietary Graph API; high within scope
- inputs outputs
- identity/app/token → paginated ads with eligible creative/date/platform/payer/demographic/geography/impression/spend ranges
- limitations
- primarily political/social issue/election worldwide plus broader supported UK/EU scope; not universal commercial ads; Graph limits
- useful measures
- range-preserving spend/impressions, concentration, payer relationship, creative survival
- official source
- Access · Reference
Official sources
- Access https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/api/
- Reference https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/ads_archive/
Catalogued at the 2026-09-01 research baseline. Verify the licence, free-tier limits, API schema and source terms again before deployment, and record a version-pinned registry entry for whatever you select.
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