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n8n Automated Ad Poller

Runs daily at 6am. Scrapes all your tracked competitors from Meta Ad Library, deduplicates against your existing swipe file, calculates Days Active and Longevity Tier, and pushes new ads to Airtable automatically.

Default Setup

The workflow ships with Alex Hormozi as the default aspirational hook farm. He tests 200 ads at any time -- the Long-Runners are proven winners.

Cost warning: Hormozi has 2000+ ads in the Ad Library. The first scrape pulls all of them (~$0.10 Apify credits). After that, daily runs only find new ads so costs drop to near zero. Apify free tier gives $5/month -- enough for ~5 competitors scraped daily.

You can add or change competitors anytime by editing your Competitors table in Airtable. The workflow scrapes whatever is there.

Setup (5 minutes)

1. Import the workflow

  • Open your n8n instance
  • Go to Workflows > Import from File
  • Select ad-poller-workflow.json

2. Set your credentials

Airtable:

  • Go to n8n Credentials > Add New > Airtable Personal Access Token
  • Paste your Airtable PAT
  • Name it "Airtable Token"

Apify:

  • In n8n, go to Settings > Variables (or use Environment Variables)
  • Add: APIFY_TOKEN = your Apify API token

3. Update the placeholder IDs

Open the workflow and update these in the Airtable nodes:

Placeholder Where to find it
YOUR_AIRTABLE_BASE_ID Airtable > Your base URL contains app...
YOUR_COMPETITORS_TABLE_ID Airtable > Table URL contains tbl...
YOUR_SWIPE_FILE_TABLE_ID Airtable > Table URL contains tbl...

These appear in 3 nodes: "Read Competitors", "Read Existing Ads", and "Write to Airtable".

4. Add Hormozi to your Competitors table

Add this row to your Competitors table in Airtable:

Name Facebook Page ID Niche Tier Status
Alex Hormozi 116482854782233 Aspirational Active

Want more? Add any competitor -- just need their name and Ad Library Page ID. Run /ads-setup in Claude Code to auto-resolve Page IDs from Facebook URLs.

5. Activate

Toggle the workflow ON. It runs daily at 6am. You can also trigger it manually anytime.

How it works

Daily 6am
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Read active competitors from Airtable
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Read existing ads (for dedup)
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For each competitor: build Ad Library URL
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Call Apify scraper (active + inactive ads, sorted by impressions)
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Dedup, calculate Days Active, assign Longevity Tier
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Push new ads to Airtable in batches of 10

Longevity Tiers (auto-calculated)

Days Active Tier
60+ Long-Runner (proven winner)
30-59 Performer
14-29 Solid
7-13 Testing
<7 Killed

Changing competitors

Just edit your Competitors table in Airtable. The workflow reads it fresh every run. Add rows, change status to "Paused" to skip, or remove them entirely.

To add a new competitor without knowing their Page ID, run /ads-setup or /ad-poller in Claude Code -- it auto-resolves Page IDs from Facebook page URLs.

Optional: Add Slack alerts

Add a Slack node after "Write to Airtable" to get a daily summary in your channel. Use the "Build Summary" node output for the message.

Customization

  • Change scrape time: Edit the cron in "Daily 6am" node (e.g. 0 9 * * * for 9am)
  • Change country: In "Build Scrape URLs" code node, change const COUNTRY = 'ALL' to 'GB', 'US', etc.
  • Change max ads per competitor: In the same code node, change const MAX_ADS = 50
  • Run twice daily: Change cron to 0 6,18 * * *