Scraping Facebook Is Hard. But Not Impossible.
Scraping meta ad library costs $40/month on searchapi.io. Apify charges $225 for ~300k ads per month. If there are scrapers out there that can achieve this so why cant I? Getting there wasnt easy, I thought I can achieve this with few prompts. It took 3 infrastructure rewrites and the discovery that Facebook doesn’t fight bots with captchas, it fights them with silence. Here’s everything that didn’t work, and the one stupid thing that did....