Facebook ad library scraper
Pricing
$0.75 / 1,000 ads
Facebook ad library scraper
Scrape facebook ads search and ads run by facebook pages - Fast and lightweight
2.4 (12)
Pricing
$0.75 / 1,000 ads
153
Monthly users
883
Runs succeeded
99%
Response time
45 days
Last modified
2 days ago
Actor is unusually slow
Closed
"The actor is unusually slow. Please report the issue to the developer or try with a different input"
for 5 mins it got back only 300 ads. Used to be >1k. What could have been wrong?
Alpmedia
There are more cases. Problem remaining
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Alpmedia
I tried 1)both cloud API calls and manual search 2) Changed the parameters (different timeframe). The same issue
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Hi, Thanks for opening the issue and helping me to make this actor better. I am trying to find out a solution, but meanwhile you can reduce the memory assigned to avoid this issue
Alpmedia
Interesting, I thought more memory would only make it faster.
I will do that. It will be a huge help if this gets fixed ^
Okay, the reason is this - we can't scrape multiple pages simultaneously due to scroll based pagination. so concurrency doesn't go more than 1 If you enable 'Scrape ad details' option, then you can set more RAM and more concurrency, because we can scrape multiple ad details simultaneously
Alpmedia
Hey thank you for checking it for me
- All the runs I listed here didn't turn on "Scrape ad details", so I assume this should not be the problem
- From my testing, the issue exists when I just run 1 search (Run ID: DYCwksBtZEcjWFo3E )
- I tested again this morning. The issue remains (Run ID: lDwtebGbF00rprVqT 5Y0PIb4pTxtRbzgcG ). Scraping stopped under 1000 results for "The actor is unusually slow. Please report the issue to the developer or try with a different input"
This breaks my client flow, and my client is asking me to consider alternative API...
Hope we can resolve this since it had been working well except the recent 2 weeks
You can't run the actor with single search url but more than 512MB RAM because it will cost me more and reduce my profits. Here are your options:
- Use low memory like 512MB if you want to scrape single ad search url
- Pass multiple search urls
You can contact me at heycuriouscoder@gmail.com to discuss more about this and a solution that works both of us
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per resultThis Actor is paid per result. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for each dataset of 1,000 items in the Actor outputs.
Price per 1,000 items
$0.75
