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title: "Scrape Creators API / Ad Transcript"
description: "ScrapeCreators tool scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript on looot: input fields, $0.00188 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Retrieves a transcript for a single Facebook Ad Library video ad by ID or URL. If Facebook exposes captions, those are used. Otherwise we try to transcribe the public video URL. Credits are only deducted when transcript is returned. If the ad has no video or no transcript is available, transcript will be null and no credit is charged. Send one of: id, url.

- **Tool id:** `scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript`
- **Provider:** [ScrapeCreators](/providers/scrapecreators)
- **Job:** [Transcribe a video from its URL](/reference/jobs/video-transcript-get) (`video.transcript.get`)
- **Price:** $0.00188 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `cache_max_age` | string | no | Example: "7d" |
| `id` | string | no |   |
| `url` | string | no | Example: "https://www.facebook.com/ads/library?id=1020359190509080" |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

<CodeGroup>

```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript","input":{"id":"<id>","url":"<url>","cache_max_age":"7d"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript",
    input: {
      id: "<id>",
      url: "<url>",
      cache_max_age: "7d",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "scrapecreators-facebook-adlibrary-ad-transcript",
        "input": {
            "id": "<id>",
            "url": "<url>",
            "cache_max_age": "7d",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:video.transcript.get` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/video-transcript-get).