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    "description": "Scrape facebook.com/ads/library by keyword or advertiser: ad copy, image and video URLs, landing page URL, start and end dates, and how many days each ad has run. Turn on EU transparency and every ad also carries its total EU reach with an age, gender and country breakdown.",
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            "title": "🔍 Search Term(s)",
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            "description": "Keyword(s) to search the Ad Library for — a brand, product, or phrase that appears in the ad copy or advertiser name. Required if no startUrls provided."
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            "description": "Paste raw Ad Library search URLs (https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?q=...&country=US or ?view_all_page_id=...). Each URL becomes its own search task; results are merged and deduped by ad archive ID across all URLs. When provided AND parseable, startUrls REPLACE the query field.",
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                "AUDIENCE_NETWORK",
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                "THREADS",
                "WHATSAPP"
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            "title": "🗣️ Ad Languages",
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            "description": "ISO language codes, e.g. en, de, da. Leave empty for all languages.",
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            "title": "📅 Started After",
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            "description": "Only ads that started running on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)."
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            "description": "Only ads that started running on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)."
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            "minimum": 1,
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            "description": "Maximum total ads to return. The Ad Library is cursor-paginated and hands back about 10 ads per request after the first page, so large numbers mean long runs.",
            "default": 25
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            "title": "🇪🇺 Fetch EU reach & audience per ad",
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            "description": "Fetches each ad's EU transparency record: total reach in the EU, the age/country/gender breakdown of who saw it, the targeting parameters the advertiser set, plus the advertiser's Instagram handle, follower count and page description. These numbers are not in the ad list — they come from one extra request per ad, so a run with this on takes noticeably longer and costs more. Reach and audience are published by Meta only for ads that target the EU; for other ads those fields come back empty.",
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            "title": "✂️ Description Max Length",
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            "title": "♻️ Incremental Mode",
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            "title": "🔑 State Key",
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            "description": "Optional. Stable identifier for the tracked search universe. Leave empty to auto-generate from search inputs."
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            "description": "When incremental mode is on, drop ads that re-run a creative you have already seen under a different ad ID. Matched on the creative itself (copy, destination and media), not on the ad ID.",
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            "title": "🔑 Telegram Bot Token",
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            "title": "🎮 Discord Webhook URL",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Discord incoming webhook URL. Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks → New Webhook."
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            "title": "💼 Slack Webhook URL",
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            "description": "WhatsApp Cloud API permanent access token (System User token from Meta Business). Recipient must have messaged the business number within the last 24h (service-conversation window — free since Nov 2024)."
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