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This is a NAME match only, not a domain match (unlike some enrichment actors in this catalogue) — LinkedIn's Ad Library has no domain filter. Accepted formats: Notion, Brex, Stripe. You're only charged for the ones we actually find — a miss costs nothing.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "testRun": { "title": "Try it first — only process the first 5", "type": "boolean", "description": "Turn this on to test your input on a small sample before running the full list. Turn it off to process everything.", "default": false }, "onlyFound": { "title": "Hide rows with no result", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only keep rows where something was actually found. Misses are always free, whether or not you show them here.", "default": false }, "includeKeywords": { "title": "Only keep rows containing", "type": "array", "description": "Optional. Only keep results that mention at least one of these words (e.g. a job title, a city, a product name). Leave empty to keep everything.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "excludeKeywords": { "title": "Skip rows containing", "type": "array", "description": "Optional. Drop any result that mentions one of these words. Leave empty to skip nothing.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResults": { "title": "Stop after this many results", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Optional. Stop the run once this many results have been found — useful for a quick, cheap sample. Leave blank for no limit." }, "returnAds": { "title": "Also return one row per ad", "type": "boolean", "description": "Adds one row per active ad next to each company's summary row: Ad Library ID and link, creative type, text, headline, CTA, destination link, images/video, and EEA transparency details (run dates, impressions range, targeting parameters) where available. Each ad row is billed as an ad (see Pricing). Reads up to 'Max ads per company' ads.", "default": false }, "maxAdsPerBrand": { "title": "Max ads per company", "type": "integer", "description": "How many active ads to read per company when ad rows or monitoring are on, 1 to 24. Caps the ad rows (and the ad charges) per company. Default 10.", "default": 10 }, "downloadCreatives": { "title": "Download ad creatives (images, videos, posters)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Downloads each ad's images, progressive MP4 videos and poster thumbnails into the run's key-value store, adding a creativeFiles array to each ad row with direct KV store URLs, dimensions, sha256 hashes, and duration. Stored files are billed under the 'creative-file' event (see Pricing). Reads up to 'Max creatives per company' files. Default false.", "default": false }, "maxCreativesPerCompany": { "title": "Max creatives per company", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of creative files (images, videos, posters) to download per company when creative downloads are on, 1 to 100. Caps stored files and creative-file charges per company. Default 20.", "default": 20 }, "maxMb": { "title": "Max file size (MB)", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum file size in MB for any single creative download, 1 to 500. Files exceeding this limit are skipped with an error entry and not charged. Default 100.", "default": 100 }, "deltaMode": { "title": "Only return companies whose ad presence changed since the last run", "type": "boolean", "description": "Turns this actor into a competitor ad monitor. A company is reported only when it started or stopped running LinkedIn ads (the 'Active in last 30 days?' flag flipped), or when its ads in the last 30 days or its total ad count moved by more than 'Minimum change (%)' since the numbers it last reported. Companies that did not change come back as an uncharged 'UNCHANGED' row (hide them with 'Hide rows with no result'). The first run has nothing to compare against, so it reports every company and stores its numbers as the baseline. This watches presence and volume, not individual new ads: the Ad Library's first page is a small sample in no date order.", "default": false }, "alertOnNewAds": { "title": "New ads alert: return only ads not seen before", "type": "boolean", "description": "Returns ad rows only for ads this watchlist has never seen, so each scheduled run delivers just the competitor's new ads. Turns on monitoring and ad rows by itself. 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Naming a watchlist with the checkbox above off returns every company but still fills 'Presence changed?', 'Change type' and 'Change (%)', so you can filter them yourself in Sheets, n8n or Make.", "default": "" }, "quietRunOutput": { "title": "What a quiet monitoring run writes to the dataset", "enum": [ "summary", "none" ], "type": "string", "description": "A quiet run is a company with no new ads since the last run. \"One summary row\" (the default) keeps the company row with newAdCount 0. \"Nothing\" writes zero items, so a bot or integration reading the dataset never has to skip rows. A company that failed still returns its error row.", "default": "summary" }, "notifyUrl": { "title": "Send alerts to (Discord or Slack webhook, Telegram bot link, or any URL)", "type": "string", "description": "Optional. After the company is billed, each NEW ad is posted here as one message: advertiser, ad text, headline, creative, CTA, and link. Discord or Slack: paste the channel's webhook URL. Telegram: https://api.telegram.org/bot/sendMessage?chat_id=. Any other URL receives JSON. Messages are free, and a message that fails never fails the run (the row's notifyErrors says why). Stored encrypted, never logged or written to the results. Needs 'New ads alert' turned on." }, "notifyFormat": { "title": "Message format", "enum": [ "auto", "discord", "slack", "telegram", "json" ], "type": "string", "description": "Leave on \"Detect from the link\": discord.com links get Discord messages, hooks.slack.com Slack, api.telegram.org Telegram, anything else JSON. Pick one only to override that.", "default": "auto" }, "maxNotificationsPerRun": { "title": "Most alert messages per run", "type": "integer", "description": "Up to 100. Above this, one \"+N more\" message says how many more ads are in the run's dataset, so a busy first run never floods the channel. 0 sends only that one summary message.", "default": 20 }, "columns": { "title": "Which columns do you want?", "type": "array", "description": "Choose which pieces of information to include in each result row. 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