I am trying to get all ads from different political pages on Facebook using the Radlibrary package in R -- which I have done a hundred times before with no problem at all. Now I experience that some ads are not returned -- there`s no system in which ads are not returned: for one party it is just a few ads in april 2022, for another it's all ads after 1/1/2021 -- but the thing in common is that I get some of the ads.
The problem is similar to the one described here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/Radlibrary/issues/103
Also, I know the ads are available since they are 1) displayed both in the browser version of the Ad Library but also if I download them as a .csv file from facebook.com/ads/library and 2) I have managed to get the ads that now are missing in a previous pull a couple of months ago
My code is (which only returns 117 out of 210 ads):
library("Radlibrary")
query_ad <- adlib_build_query(ad_reached_countries = 'DK',
ad_active_status = 'ALL',
search_terms = "NULL",
search_page_ids = "223040066022",
fields = c(
"id",
"ad_creation_time",
"ad_creative_bodies",
"ad_delivery_start_time",
"ad_delivery_stop_time",
"ad_snapshot_url",
"currency",
"page_id",
"page_name",
"publisher_platforms",
"impressions",
"spend"
))
response_ad <- adlib_get_paginated(query_ad, max_gets = 10, token = token)
results_tibble_ad <- as_tibble(response_ad, type = "ad",
censor_access_token = NULL)
This is resolved in the newest release.