Turn Competitor Meta Ads into Creative Briefs (Apify + OpenAI)

Turn Competitor Meta Ads into Weekly Creative Briefs (Apify + OpenAI)

Want to stop guessing what’s working in Meta Ads? This n8n workflow automatically scrapes active competitor ads from the Meta Ads Library every week, analyzes recurring angles and hooks with OpenAI, and saves a ready-to-use creative brief to Google Sheets.

What this workflow does

• Runs on a schedule: executes every Monday at 09:00.
• Sets competitor research parameters: configure search terms, country, and a max results limit.
• Scrapes active ads with Apify: runs the dami_studio~meta-ads-library-scraper actor to retrieve currently active ads for your search terms.
• Improves signal quality: filters out ads with too little readable copy and removes ads already seen in previous executions.
• Generates a JSON creative brief with OpenAI: bundles the remaining ad copy into a prompt and uses your OpenAI chat model (gpt-5-mini) to produce a JSON output including angles with counts, offers, hooks, proof, and gaps.
• Publishes results: appends the weekly brief as a new row in Google Sheets.

Use cases

• Weekly creative strategy for SaaS teams tracking competitors’ Meta Ads Library messaging.
• Automation engineers who want an end-to-end pipeline: Apify scraping → OpenAI analysis → Google Sheets reporting.
• Marketers and operators using n8n to turn ad intelligence into actionable briefs without manual research.

Technical details

• Integrations / nodes: set, code, slack, filter, notion, sticky note.
• Apify: requires an Apify API token and access to the dami_studio~meta-ads-library-scraper actor.
• OpenAI: add an OpenAI API key credential and confirm gpt-5-mini availability.
• Google Sheets: configure OAuth, then select the target spreadsheet and sheet name for the append step.

Perfect for n8n automation workflow users who need reliable, recurring Meta Ads competitor research and structured creative briefs.