# Weekly competitor Meta ads watch: an agent recipe

Searches the Meta ad library for your rivals and lists new ads with copy, format and start date. Your agent needs another tool for alerts.

## Prompt

Use looot to search the Meta ad library for these five competitors and list their new ads with copy, format and start date. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Connect my Supabase and create the table meta_ads. 3. Upsert on a natural key and never overwrite my edits. 4. Store source, endpoint, cost and fetched_at on every row. 5. Show any price over one cent first and stop at my daily budget. 6. On a re-run, write only what changed. 7. Report rows added, rows changed and total cost.

## Steps and providers

- Search the Meta ad library: scrapecreators, apify. 1 search per brand.

## Memory and schedule

The prompt writes rows to your own Supabase.

This recipe needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand.

## Can an AI agent watch competitor meta ads?

Yes. The agent runs one step through looot: search the meta ad library. You give it the prompt on this page and the inputs.

## How do I watch competitor meta ads with looot?

Paste the prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoint for each step, checks the price and runs the cheapest one that fits. Edit the names and numbers first.

## How much does it cost to watch competitor meta ads?

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider the agent picks. The web version of this page reads the cheapest price for each step live from the catalog and shows the cost per 1,000 brands when every step is priced.

## Which providers can watch competitor meta ads?

The providers behind this recipe are scrapecreators, apify. The catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it.

## Can I watch competitor meta ads on a schedule?

This recipe is a watch and needs scheduled runs, which are not available yet. You can run it by hand whenever you want, and the agent will report what changed.

## Where does the data go when I watch competitor meta ads?

The prompt tells your agent to write one row per result to your own Supabase project, with the source, the endpoint, the cost and the time. looot returns the data and bills the call. It does not store your rows.

## What can looot not do when I watch competitor meta ads?

looot returns data and does not do delivering alerts. Your agent needs another tool for that part.

## Related recipes

- /recipes/tiktok-ad-swipe-file
- /recipes/landing-page-teardown
- /recipes/ad-creative-generator

## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. The cost per 1,000 runs is read live from the catalog on the web page.