apify-ads-intelligence

apify-ads-intelligence is a skill for Claude Code from apify/awesome-skills. It costs 116 tokens per session (4,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research and analysis guide for finding public advertisements across Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, and, with limitations, X.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate ad creatives, campaigns, dates, targeting information, and related advertising activity through Apify data sources.
Why use it?
It brings competitor and campaign research into one process instead of requiring separate searches across each advertising platform.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the awesome-skills plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate ad creatives, campaigns, dates, targeting information, and related…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-ads-intelligence
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add apify/awesome-skills --skill apify-ads-intelligence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,424 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00116 $0.04424
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.02212
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00885
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00442

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7aeaa3af08f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apify-ads-intelligence scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/apify-ads-intelligence/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ads Intelligence Cluster

Answer natural language questions about ads, ad libraries, and competitor advertising activity by routing to the right Apify Actor and delivering a synthesized answer.

CLI rules: Always pass --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-ads-intelligence, --json (or the relevant --format flag on datasets get-items), and 2>/dev/null. The --user-agent flag is critical for telemetry — never omit it.

Note on platform coverage

  • Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn: real public ad libraries with rich data (creatives, targeting, dates, reach where disclosed).
  • X (Twitter): no public ad library exists. Coverage is a best-effort workaround that scrapes a brand's tweets and flags items with non-empty card field or source containing "Ads" as likely promoted. Always include the caveat in synthesis output.

Note on overlap with apify-ecommerce

That skill has an ads-intelligence intent that routes to apify/facebook-ads-scraper for shallow Meta-ad lookups. This skill is the deep dive across all five platforms. If you only need Meta ads as a side detail of an ecommerce question, stay in apify-ecommerce. If ads are the main task, use this skill.

Prerequisites

(No need to check it upfront)

  • Apify CLI v1.5.0+ (npm install -g apify-cli)
  • jq (recommended for response parsing and filtering; brew install jq on macOS, apt install jq on Linux)
  • Authentication via one of:

Verify auth: apify info --user-agent apify-awesome-skills/apify-ads-intelligence — should show username and userId.

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Task Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Detect intent and select Actor(s)
- [ ] Step 2: Fetch Actor schema
- [ ] Step 3: Ask user preferences (output format, result count, country)
- [ ] Step 4: Run the Actor (or Actors in parallel for cross-platform-audit) and fetch results
- [ ] Step 5: Synthesize a direct answer (not a data dump)

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 251 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 7aeaa3af08f7

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apify-ads-intelligence is a skill published in the GitHub repository apify/awesome-skills (248 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 4,424 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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