---
title: "Show the creatives behind Meta ads"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/tools/meta_get_ad_creatives/execute"
tags: ["Meta Ads"]
---

# Show the creatives behind Meta ads

`POST /api/v1/tools/meta_get_ad_creatives/execute`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://adako.ai`
- URL: `https://adako.ai/api/v1/tools/meta_get_ad_creatives/execute`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Lists the creatives used by one ad, or by every ad in an ad set: headline, primary text, destination link, format and thumbnail.
Use when: the user asks what an ad actually says, before rewriting copy, or to find a creative_id to reuse with meta_add_ad.
Do not use for performance numbers — meta_get_ad_performance answers which creative works.
Returns one row per creative with its id, format and text, plus the raw spec in the data for follow-up questions.
Pass either ad_id or ad_set_id. Carousel creatives report their card count; flexible creatives report how many text and image assets they carry.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `arguments` object
    - `ad_account_id` string: Meta ad account id such as act_1234567890. Omit it to use the primary account; if several accounts are active and none is primary the call fails and lists the valid ids.
    - `ad_id` string: One ad whose creative should be shown.
    - `ad_set_id` string: An ad set; every ad in it is included.
    - `limit` integer: Maximum ads to inspect (default 25).
    - `raw_data` boolean: Return compact JSON only (no markdown). Use when you will compute on the result.

## Response `200`

The tool ran. A write returns proposal_id and approve_url while the change waits for approval.

- SuccessEnvelope
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `tool` string, required
  - `data` object, required: Machine-readable result.
  - `markdown` string, required: The same result written for a person or a model.
  - `quota` Quota: Task usage for the current billing period.
    - `plan` string
    - `used` integer
    - `limit` integer
    - `period_end` string
    - `upgrade_url` string
  - `proposal_id` string: Present for writes. Nothing changes on the ad platform until it is approved.
  - `approve_url` string: Where a person approves the proposal.
  - `request_id` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid arguments, or the ad account could not be resolved.
- `401`: Missing, invalid, revoked or expired API key.
- `402`: Monthly task quota used up, or the plan does not include this tool.
- `403`: The connected ad account lacks the access level this tool needs.
- `404`: Unknown tool name.
- `409`: Not connected, reconnect needed, confirmation required, a proposal already pending or no longer pending, an identical create that failed earlier today (proposal_failed_before), a create that duplicates an approved one (duplicate_create), the ad-account limit of the plan reached (account_limit), or an Idempotency-Key reused with different arguments.
- `429`: Rate limited by Adako or by the ad platform. See Retry-After.
- `500`: Unexpected error inside Adako.
- `502`: The ad platform returned an error.

---

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