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Facebook Ad Library Ad Transcript API reference

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Example request
curl "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/facebook/adlibrary/ad/transcript?id=<id>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $INSIGHTSOCIAL_API_KEY"

Step-by-step: Ad library aggregation · Video transcription

GET
/v1/facebook/adlibrary/ad/transcript

Returns the spoken words of a Facebook Ad Library video ad, from Facebook's captions when available or transcribed from the video itself.

Use it when you need what an ad says out loud; adlibrary/ad returns the creative and spend but not the speech.

100 credits per call.

Authorization

apiKey
x-api-key<token>

Your key from the dashboard. It starts with isk_.

In: header

Query Parameters

id?string

Facebook Ad Library ad ID. Ad ids rotate as campaigns end, so take a current one from /v1/facebook/adlibrary/company/ads rather than reusing an old one. Provide at least one of: id, url.

url?string

Facebook Ad Library URL for the ad. A page URL is rejected with a 400. Provide at least one of: id, url.

dry_run?"1"

Set to 1 to get the price of this call without making it: data.dry_run carries credits_min and credits_max. Nothing is charged.

Value in

  • "1"

Response Body

application/json

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curl -X GET "https://api.insightsocial.app/v1/facebook/adlibrary/ad/transcript"
{  "success": true,  "platform": "string",  "endpoint": "string",  "schema_version": "2",  "pagination": {    "next_cursor": "string",    "has_more": true,    "page_size": 0,    "stopped_at": "since"  },  "unavailable": [    "string"  ],  "credits_used": 0,  "credits_remaining": 0,  "request_id": "string",  "cached": true,  "idempotent_replay": true,  "charge_reason": "string",  "free_call": true,  "data": {    "transcript": {      "language": "string",      "text": "string",      "segments": [        {          "text": "string",          "start_seconds": 0,          "duration_seconds": 0        }      ]    }  }}

Trending GET

Returns the live Douyin hot-search board: roughly 50 trending topics with rank, hot value, view count, video count, and the time each topic broke.

Adlibrary › Ad GET

Returns one ad from the Facebook Ad Library: creative, CTA and link, run dates, display format, and the advertiser's page URL, likes and categories.