Find competitors, analyze their ads, and benchmark their products with Apify
See how you can map an entire market's competitors, the ads they're actively paying for, and the prices behind them from just one keyword and a country. Chain three Apify Actors in n8n and get a live competitor benchmark in Google Sheets, updated on your schedule. π’ *Facebook Ads Library Scraper* π https://apify.it/3TIWqzc π *Facebook Search Scraper* π https://apify.it/4xH1vpw π *E-commerce Scraping Tool* π https://apify.it/4jkUEP1 *Why research competitors before you launch?* π€ π‘ *Avoid a Crowded Launch*: Find out which brands already own the category in a new country before you commit inventory or ad budget. π― *Follow the Real Spend*: Active ads show what competitors are putting money behind right now, not campaigns they tested and dropped. π *Benchmark Pricing*: Match every ad to the price of the product behind it and see where you'd be the most expensive option. π *Spot Whitespace*: Sort by price to find segments nobody is advertising in, or ones everyone is crowding and undercutting. π± *Every Meta Surface*: See ads across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads in one dataset. *Run it from an AI agent* π€ Connect Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude or ChatGPT, then ask: "Find Facebook Pages for sneaker brands in Germany, pull their currently active ads from the Meta Ad Library, and scrape the product name, price, and currency from each ad's destination URL. Use Apify-managed Actors. Give me a table of competitor, ad message, product, and price." You'll need an Apify API token to connect. *Useful links* π§βπ» π§βπ» Sign up for Apify: https://apify.it/4rt9gxX π Integrate the Actors with your workflow: https://apify.it/4xHvqhw π Browse other Social Media Scrapers: https://apify.it/47eT7mp *How to map competitors, their ads, and prices?* π§βπ« 0:00 Introduction 0:47 Find competitor pages with Facebook Search Scraper 1:14 Pull active ads with Facebook Ads Library Scraper 1:29 Scrape product prices with E-commerce Scraping Tool 1:42 Plan the Google Sheet columns 2:12 Build the n8n workflow 2:40 Chain Facebook Ads Library Scraper 2:48 Why active ads only matters 3:19 Filter product URLs and merge the data 3:46 No n8n? Run the Tasks manually 3:54 Find pricing gaps in the final sheet 4:11 Wrap up