Analyze competitor Facebook ads with AI and log to Google Sheets

Scrapes top-performing competitor Facebook ads, has AI summarize and rewrite the copy, and saves it all to a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each qualifying ad.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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A stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Knowledge Base & RAGSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
ApifyGoogle DriveOpenAIGoogle GeminiGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

You want to know what ads are actually working for your competitors, but scrolling through ad libraries and guessing what's performing well eats up hours. Turning what you find into new ad copy ideas takes even longer.

Who it fits

Marketing agencies and advertisers who want to track competitor ad creative.

How it works

  1. You run the automation with a target keyword for the Facebook Ad Library
  2. It pulls recent, active ads and keeps only the ones with strong engagement
  3. AI analyzes each video, image, or text ad and summarizes what makes it work
  4. AI rewrites the ad copy into a new draft you can adapt
  5. Each ad's summary and rewritten copy is added to your Google Sheet
What you get

Competitor ad concepts ready for your review

You get top performing competitor Facebook ads summarized and rewritten into fresh draft copy, saved to a spreadsheet for your team.

What you get

A Google Sheet of competitor ads with AI-written summaries and rewritten ad copy you can use for inspiration.

What you need

An Apify account, Google Drive, an OpenAI API key, a Google Gemini API key, and a Google account for Sheets.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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