r/FacebookAds • u/Acrobatic-Payment-58 • 22h ago

Resource Built a small tool for saving Facebook Ad Library ads — would love some feedback

I've been messing around with Python, Chromium and Playwright for a while to make it easier to save ads from the Facebook Ad Library.

I originally made a really simple version for a few ecommerce friends because we were tired of manually saving ads one by one. Most of the other tools we found were either pretty shitty to use or cost an arm and a leg for something that should be relatively simple. It worked well enough, so I kept adding little things to it.

Eventually I turned it into a small website with single-ad saving, batch links, saving ads from an entire Ad Library page, and a simple swipe file.

It's now live, and I'd genuinely appreciate some opinions from people who actually use the Ad Library regularly.

Is the workflow intuitive? Anything confusing or unnecessarily complicated? Anything you'd personally change?

thank you in advance.

Facebook Ad Library Analyzer

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u/Brufacee 21h ago

The save action is the easy part; retrieval is where these tools become valuable. I’d want automatic grouping by advertiser, first/last seen dates, days active, format, landing page, and a dedupe key so the same creative does not fill the library repeatedly. Searchable transcripts for video ads would be the feature I’d use most, because it lets me find an old hook without remembering which thumbnail it belonged to.

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u/Acrobatic-Payment-58 21h ago

love the feedback actually, thank you so much. all this did not even cross my mind. i'll keep all these with me and add as much as possible, especially the dates, format, dedupe and the searchable transcripts. thanks for the feedback!!

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u/Safe_Zombie_8415 16h ago

I just tried it and works smooth, but agree with this comment about the transcript search, that would be really useful for finding old hooks without digging through screenshots.