Meta Ad Library & API
Discovery lead for political-ad archives and advertiser-level spend/impression ranges.
- Publisher
- Meta
- Country
- Nigeria
- Source type
- PLATFORM_DISCLOSURE
- Years
- Search-index description: rolling seven-year political-ad archive; Nigeria coverage untested
- Format
- API described; response schema untested
- Access
- Documentation indexed; fetch returned 403; API not connected
- Priority
- High
- Last checked
- 2026-10-03
Evidence
Official search results describe the Ad Library API for social-issue, election and political ads, and the library describes a seven-year archive. The documentation could not be fetched in this check.
Limitations
No Nigerian ads or API responses were retrieved. Country eligibility, registration requirements, API fields and retention must be confirmed before collection. Spend ranges are not exact expenditure.
Ingestion plan
Confirm Nigeria coverage and complete Meta's official API access process before ingestion. Retain ad IDs, disclaimers, date ranges and original spend bounds. Follow documented pagination and rate limits once access is granted. Proposed daily monitoring is not active.
Expected records, as stated: Not measured — source discovery only; no underlying records ingested.
Terms of use
Reuse licence, robots policy and automated-access permissions have not yet been established. Link to the publisher; do not redistribute or automate collection until reviewed.
Possible joins
- Ad library ID
- Advertiser page ID
- Evidence-backed campaign affiliation
Joins describe keys that could connect datasets. A link between ownership, contracts or finance records does not show causation or wrongdoing.
Referenced in coverage
- Digital ads, 2019: UNKNOWN
- Digital ads, 2023: PARTIAL
- Digital ads, 2027: UNKNOWN