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How do you capture competitor ads from Meta Ad Library and turn them into your own cuts?

Capture competitor ads from Meta Ad Library by saving and deconstructing, not stealing pixels. Open Ad Library, capture structure and receipts, save into eonik if you use the extension, then recut with your footage and kit. Spy is input. The Mac app is where the ad gets made; You approve; You stay on the right side of rights.

Abinash·2026-07-25·Updated August 13, 2026

A phone and printed stills used as reference

The steps

01
Locate Target
Find competitors running active ads for more than 30 days.
02
Extract Video
Use a network inspector or Chrome extension to extract the raw MP4 URL.
03
Catalog Asset
Save the asset into a tagged swipe file (like Foreplay or Notion) for programmatic assembly reference.

How do you capture competitor ads from Meta Ad Library and turn them into your own cuts?

Search with a question

Do not browse until you drown. Pick a competitor, a category, or a claim type. Note what is still running. Running is a receipt, not a trophy.

Capture first-frame poster, first line, proof device, CTA, ratio, and landing page if shown.

Save, then write slots

Use Ad Library, screenshots, or the eonik extension to save ads you see. Immediately write slots: hook, body, CTA. If you cannot fill a slot with your assets, that is a shoot or generate task.

Do not download their video to reupload. That is their asset.

1. Search Ad Library with a question, not a binge.
2. Capture structure and receipts, not their pixels.
3. Write hook / body / CTA slots you can fill with your assets.
4. Assemble your version in eonik, approve, upload yourself.

Assemble your version

eonik Library. Connect local folders, browse your footage, use in a project

In eonik: your takes, your kit, your legal. Approve. Upload yourself. Recut doctrine: learn from Ad Library.

Compare vs Foreplay/MagicBrief honestly: they help you study. They do not finish the ad. Spy as a door: compare.

Capture vs recut

Step	Swipe file	Your cut in eonik
Search	Binge until you drown.	One competitor, one claim type.
Save	Pixels in a folder.	Structure + receipts. Extension is a sensor.
Slots	Never written.	Hook, body, CTA you can fill.
Ship	CapCut, blank.	Your footage, kit, you approve.

Meta Ad Library is a public receipt. Do not reupload their video. Spy is input.

What usually breaks

Reuploading competitor video.
Copying unsubstantiated claims.
Building a swipe file that never becomes slots.

Consider the next cut. Make it in eonik on Mac, approve every frame, then upload yourself. The loop is how to generate AI ads. eonik never spends.

“We view a behavior as more correct in a given situation to the degree that we see others performing it.”
Robert B. CialdiniInfluence: The Psychology of PersuasionInfluence, Social proof

That principle still holds. The next on-brand cut is yours to approve.

Sources

Questions

Is scraping Ad Library allowed?

Use Meta’s public Ad Library and official save paths. Do not build a pirate downloader. This guide will not help with that. Capture structure and receipts: poster, first line, proof, CTA, ratio; Running is a receipt, not a trophy; Recut with your footage and kit in eonik; Spy is input; You stay on the right side of rights; You still approve.

Does the extension replace Ad Library?

It saves ads you see across surfaces. Ad Library remains a public receipt. The Mac app is the product. Immediately write slots after you save: hook, body, CTA; If you cannot fill a slot with your assets, that is a shoot or generate task; Foreplay and MagicBrief help you study; They do not finish the ad; eonik does, with you on the gate.

Will their ad work for us?

Unknown. Recut and read your account. No oracle. Do not download their video to reupload; That is their asset; Claims you copy must be claims you can substantiate; Close the library before you assemble, or you will copy pixels by accident; Make your version in eonik, approve it, upload yourself; Structure only, not their talent or trademarked end cards.