Scraping Facebook Is Hard. But Not Impossible.
I wanted to scrape the Facebook Ad Library for my SaaS, SpreshApp . On paper, the plan was simple: launch Puppeteer, open the Ad Library, scroll until nothing new loads, collect the data. Done. Reality had other plans. Facebook’s Ad Library behaves less like a webpage and more like a suspicious nightclub bouncer. The moment it senses automation, it quietly changes behavior. No dramatic CAPTCHA, no big red error screen. Just silence....