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Monitor Competitor Facebook Ads with Airtop

Use Case

Monitor a competitor’s active Facebook ads and get a weekly HTML intelligence brief by email — saving time on manual research and helping you spot messaging, offers, and creative trends quickly.

What This Automation Does

• Runs weekly on a set schedule.
• Uses Airtop to visit the competitor’s Facebook Ad Library page and extract up to 30 active ads.
• Summarizes each ad with key points: message, topic, CTA, duration active, language, target audience.
• Sends the compiled HTML report via Gmail.

How It Works

1. Schedule Trigger – Fires once a week at the configured time.
2. Airtop Extraction – Loads the Ad Library URL and runs a prompt to extract and format the ads into HTML.
3. Email Delivery – Sends the HTML report to your specified recipient using Gmail.

Setup Requirements

1. Airtop API Key — Generate here.
2. Airtop Credential in n8n — Add your API key under “Airtop” in n8n.
3. Gmail OAuth2 Credential — Connect the Gmail account to send reports.
4. Competitor’s Ad Library URL — Replace the default view_all_page_id in the workflow with your target.

Next Steps

• Duplicate the Airtop step for multiple competitors.
• Enrich reports by visiting ad landing pages for deeper analysis.
• Send outputs to Slack or archive in a shared workspace.

Read about ways to monitor your competitors ads here