How to Automate Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence with n8n

Tracking your competitors’ Facebook ad strategies is crucial for staying ahead, but manually gathering this intel from the Facebook Ad Library is tedious, time-consuming, and easy to overlook. Facebook’s interface is not built for quick weekly overviews or side-by-side comparisons—researchers, product marketers, and competitive analysts typically end up with messy screenshots or scattered notes. Automating this process manually with scripts often falls short due to login requirements, dynamic page content, and the need for structured, actionable summaries.

Airtop’s Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence Agent with n8n changes the game by scheduling a reliable, weekly extraction of your competitor’s Facebook ads using real browser sessions. The automation securely logs in where needed, bypasses captchas and authentication (OAuth, 2FA included), and pulls up to 30 active ads directly from the Facebook Ad Library. Each ad is summarized to highlight messaging, CTAs, format, and audience clues—key for analyzing trends and creative strategy. The output is formatted in an easy-to-read HTML brief, automatically delivered by email so your team never misses a change in the competitive landscape. For professionals using Facebook regularly for marketing, campaign planning, or competitor monitoring, this approach surfaces actionable ad intelligence with zero manual effort.

Using n8n as the automation engine makes workflows simple to set up, schedule, and scale. You can quickly customize triggers, change email recipients, or add new competitors—all with reliable, authenticated data extraction and structured reporting that takes the pain out of Facebook ad intel gathering.

Who is this Automation for?

• Product marketing teams tracking competitor positioning, messaging, and campaign launches

• Growth marketers monitoring ad trends, offers, and winning formats in their niche

• Competitive intelligence analysts conducting weekly landscape scans for management

• Agencies reporting and benchmarking clients’ brand share-of-voice versus competitors

Key Benefits

• Real browser sessions for reliable Facebook data extraction, including authenticated pages

• Automated, scheduled reports sent directly to your inbox in clean HTML format

• Summarized, structured ad data (messaging, CTAs, durations, audience) for fast analysis

• Seamless integration with your n8n workflows, no manual scraping or extensions required

Use Cases

• Receive weekly summaries of competitors' latest Facebook creatives for trend analysis

• Monitor seasonal messaging and promotional timing across key industry players

• Benchmark your brand’s share of advertising voice and creative strategies

• Prepare executive-ready intelligence briefs for strategic decision-making

• Alert teams to pivots in competitive ad targeting, messaging, or product launches

• Automate collection and archiving of competitor ad creative for long-term analysis

• Power agency reporting and client benchmarking with automated Facebook ad data

Getting Started with the Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence Agent Automation

Get up and running in minutes with this guided n8n workflow—no complex scripting or manual monitoring required.

How the Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence Agent Automation Works

This automation triggers weekly at your chosen time, launching a real browser session through Airtop to visit and extract all active ads from your specified competitor’s Facebook Ad Library page. Each ad is parsed and summarized for clarity (covering message, CTA, active duration, language, and audience hints), then formatted into an HTML email report. The final summary is sent through Gmail, reaching your inbox—ready to inform planning meetings and strategy sessions. Add more competitors or tweak the schedule easily using n8n’s drag-and-drop customizations.

What You’ll Need

• Free Airtop account

• n8n account

• Airtop API Key (generate here)

• Gmail OAuth2 credential for email delivery

• Competitor’s Facebook Ad Library page URL

Setting Up the Automation

1. Click on Try Automation on the automation page

2. Select "Use for free" and go through the n8n setup steps

3. Add your Airtop API Key and authenticate your browser profile to Facebook when prompted

4. Provide your Gmail credential and recipient address

5. Replace the workflow’s default competitor URL with your target’s Facebook Ad Library page

6. Run the automation. Optional: turn the scheduler switch on to automate weekly reports

Customize the Automation

Using n8n and Airtop, you can tailor the Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence Agent for a variety of business scenarios:

• Monitor multiple competitors by duplicating the Airtop extraction step and updating each with a new Facebook Ad Library URL

• Deep-dive into ad landing pages automatically to analyze creative-to-offer alignment

• Route ad summaries to Slack channels, shared Google Sheets, or internal dashboards

• Add advanced logic—such as custom keyword alerts or flagging dramatic shifts in creative types

Try this Automation

Automate competitive ad intelligence, save hours of research, and spot trends effortlessly. With the Competitor Facebook Ads Intelligence Agent for n8n, actionable insights from Facebook are delivered to your inbox, fully summarized and ready to use. Need help customizing this automation? Book a Demo today!