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Track new and removed competitor ad creatives

Problem

You don’t just want a snapshot of a competitor’s ads today — you want to know when they launch something new or pull a creative.

Actors used

1. Facebook Ads Library Scraper (or Google Ads Transparency Scraper) — pulls current ads
2. Ad Creative Change Detector — diffs two snapshots

Inputs

{
  "pageNames": ["Nike"],
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}

Steps

1. Run Facebook Ads Library Scraper (or the Google equivalent) to get the advertiser’s current ad creatives.
2. Save that run’s output as previousAds the next time you run it, and pass the new run’s output as currentAds to Ad Creative Change Detector — it returns exactly what’s new, removed, or edited.

Sample result shape

Illustrative — derived from the Actor’s real dataset schema, not live data.

{
  "page_name": "Nike",
  "ad_id": "1033781512449452",
  "creative_fingerprint": "72d59c3e9383543bdfc5f5d1c7c55c06...",
  "is_active": true
}

Try it live

Public Task example

Code

curl

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/om_kh~vigia-ads-library-monitor-quickstart/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"pageNames": ["Nike"], "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1}'

JavaScript

const token = process.env.APIFY_TOKEN;
const res = await fetch(
  `https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/om_kh~vigia-ads-library-monitor-quickstart/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=${token}`,
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({ pageNames: ["Nike"], maxTotalChargeUsd: 1 }),
  }
);
const ads = await res.json();

Next step

Also want to see if the same competitor is hiring for a related push? See Jobs & Hiring.