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Build a competitor ad database with a four-table schema, an API ingestion pipeline with dedup, and eight SQL queries for velocity, formats, and hooks.
By the time a competitor's launch shows in your metrics, it has run for weeks. Use first-seen dates, daily diffs, and spike alerts to catch it in days.
Turn a competitor ad into a finished creative brief in 20 minutes: find the winner via the AdLibrary API, enrich it, and let an LLM draft the brief.
Filter ad search to Shopify stores, then sort by runtime and engagement to surface proven DTC creative. Full workflow with real API code samples.
Google ships no official Ads Transparency Center API. What ATC exposes, how AR-id and domain queries work, and how to pull Google and YouTube ads in code.
AI ad analysis via API: turn 200 competitor ads into queryable rows of hooks, claims, and creative structure. Batch enrichment, cost math, caching.
Track competitor ads across Meta, Google, and LinkedIn in one pipeline: resolve IDs, curate with one call, dedup by ad key, report from a unified timeline.
How to find any brand's advertiser ID on Meta, Google, and LinkedIn: manual lookup routes, one-call API resolution, and the ID mix-ups that kill workflows.
LinkedIn has no official ad library API. How programmatic access works: company IDs, the 25-result cap, B2B analysis angles, and a weekly workflow.
Five Make.com ad spy automation scenarios with exact HTTP module configs: watchlist sweeps, format dashboards, enrichment pipelines, winners reports.
Detect winning ads programmatically: why ad longevity beats vibes, how winner tiers and composite scores work, and a scan-to-brief workflow with real code.
Build scheduled competitor ad scans with GitHub Actions: cron YAML, API key secrets, diffable JSON history, auto-filed issues, and Slack alerts. No server.
Build zapier competitor ad tracking with 7 no-code zaps: Slack alerts, Notion swipe files, Airtable archives, and AI creative briefs via the AdLibrary API.
Meta's free Ad Library API stops at political ads, EU-only commercial coverage, bucketed spend, and 200 calls/hour. The 7 walls and the workarounds.
Build Slack competitor ad alerts in 30 minutes: an incoming webhook, a Node poll script with first_seen filtering, dedup on ad_key, and cron scheduling.
