Company’s Meta Ads

Check what ads a company is running on Meta — give it a Facebook page, get back the ads that page has live.

What it does

• Returns the active ads running from a Facebook/Meta page, across all countries.
• page_id accepts either a Page ID or a full page URL. Either works.
• ad_type filters the category of ad. Default is "all ads".
• Cost is per ad scraped — 0.3 credits each — so max_results sets the ceiling on what a call can cost.

Built for competitor ad intelligence: what a competitor is promoting right now, in what wording, and to which markets.

Use cases

• Watch competitor campaigns. Active creative shows what a rival is promising, to which markets, right now.
• Read a prospect’s demand-gen motion. A company running Meta ads has an acquisition budget and someone accountable for it.
• Spot hiring pushes. Filtering to employment ads surfaces companies scaling teams through paid channels.
• Research messaging before a pitch. Their own ad copy tells you the words their market responds to.

How to use it

Analyse Meta ads for this Facebook page URL, max 20 results.

Get the active Meta ads for these three competitor pages, 20 each. Summarise
what each one leads with and where the messages overlap.

Get Meta ads for this page with ad_type set to employment, 20 results.

Example prompts

Best prompting practices

• Ask for 20, not 50. The ceiling is 20. Requesting more is the most common error on this tool.
• Pass the full page URL when you do not know the numeric Page ID — it is accepted directly.
• Leave ad_type alone unless you have a reason. "all ads" is the default and the widest net; the other values narrow to specific regulated categories.
• Run each competitor as its own call. One page per call keeps the comparison clean.
• Ask for the positioning, not the ad copy. “What do they lead with, and what do they never mention” is the usable output.
• Ask for the creative fields behind the read. Headline, body, format, first seen — so the positioning claim can be checked against actual ads rather than taken on trust.
• Say what an empty result means. No active ads right now is not “never advertises”. “Mark the page no active ads and note the date” — then re-run if you are tracking campaign cadence.
• Check B2B separately. This tool covers Facebook and Instagram page ads; B2B ad platforms come from b2b_ads_search.

Output

{
  "page_id": "123456789",
  "ads": [
    {
      "headline": "Close the books in two days.",
      "body": "Automate month-end for finance teams.",
      "started_at": "2026-07-14"
    }
  ]
}

Credits and limits

0.3 credits per ad scraped, not per call — so max_results is what you pay for. The default of 10 costs up to 3 credits and the 20 ceiling up to 6. A page with no active ads costs nothing. Run check_credits (free) before a large batch.

Parameters

Related tools

Next steps

• All MCP tools — the full catalogue with credit costs
• Research & Web Scraping — workflows that chain this tool into competitor research

Keep learning

Two courses take these tools past the reference page — clustered by GTM job, then chained into workflows.