Facebook Ad Library: API-Sourced Archive of Social Media Advertisements

A collection of advertisements retrieved from the Facebook Ad Library API, maintained by user Lejo1. The records provide a snapshot of social media advertising content and metadata as of March 2026. It serves as an archived copy of data typically accessed through Facebook's transparency tools.

Use Cases

• Analyzing political or social issue messaging trends using ad creative text
• Identifying advertiser behavior and entity relationships through advertiser identity fields
• Conducting social science research on digital transparency and platform accountability

Strengths

• Sourced directly from the official Facebook Ad Library API
• Provides a static archive of ephemeral social media advertising data
• Includes ad creative text for natural language processing

Limitations

• Unknown record count and schema details
• Potential lack of associated image or video binary files
• No information on the geographic or temporal filters used during API extraction

Provenance

Source

Facebook Ad Library API

Collection Method

API extraction

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.