Live read: Get one ad

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Asks the provider for one ad now, and gives its payload exactly as the provider sends it.

The keys are the provider’s. A Meta ad answers id, name, campaign_id, adset_id, status and a creative that holds one key, the creative id. A TikTok ad answers ad_id, ad_format, call_to_action, landing_page_url, video_id and image_ids. A Google Ads ad_group_ad answers id, name, status, adGroupId and campaignId.

The payload holds the fields AdCrunch asks the provider for, and no more. Read the creative under /observe/{advertiserId}/creatives for the material a Meta ad runs.

When there is nothing to give

404 — the provider holds no such ad on this ad account, the provider has no ad at all, or your organization does not own the advertiser in the path. They are deliberately not told apart: distinguishing them would confirm that a ad exists to somebody who cannot read it.

GET/observe/{advertiserId}/ads/{id}

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer token · headerrequired

Send Authorization: Bearer <credential>.

Use an API key (acr_…), from the AdCrunch console under Settings → API keys.

The credential names the organization, and no operation takes an organization parameter.

See https://docs.adcrunch.dev/api/authentication.

Path parameters

advertiserIdstringrequired

matches ^(acc_)[\s\S]{0,}$

idstringrequired

Responses

200

The payload the provider holds now, verbatim.

any

400

The request does not match the schema of this operation: a field is missing or has the wrong type, or the body is not valid JSON. error is invalid_request, and issues names each field. Nothing was changed.

issuesobject[]required

One entry for each field that does not match.

Show properties

Array of object

instringrequired

The part of the request that holds the field.

Allowed:bodycookieheadersparamsquery

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

pathstringrequired

A JSON Pointer into that part of the request, such as /filename. An empty string is the whole part.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:invalid_request

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

401

No API key, or one that does not resolve. See the security scheme. error is unauthorized.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:unauthorized

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

403

The caller does not hold observe:read. error is forbidden.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:forbidden

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

404

The provider holds no such entity on this ad account, the provider does not have this kind of entity, or your organization does not own the advertiser in the path. They are deliberately not told apart. error is not_found.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:not_found

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

409

This advertiser has no usable connection to its provider. A person must reconnect it. The stored read of the same resource, with advertiserId, still answers what AdCrunch holds.

providerstringrequired

The ad platform this failure came from: meta, tiktok or gads.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:provider_not_connected

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

501

AdCrunch cannot read this resource live from this advertiser’s provider. It is permanent. Read the stored copy instead, at the same resource without the advertiser in the path and with advertiserId.

providerstringrequired

The ad platform this failure came from: meta, tiktok or gads.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:live_read_unsupported

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

502

The provider refused the request, or could not answer it. Often transient, so a retry is worth making.

platformErroranyrequired

The provider’s own error object, unchanged. For Meta it carries code, error_subcode, type, error_user_title and error_user_msg — branch on the subcode for anything AdCrunch does not model. It never holds the request AdCrunch sent.

providerstringrequired

The ad platform this failure came from: meta, tiktok or gads.

errorstringrequired

A stable code for the failure. This is the field to branch on. It does not change for a given failure.

Allowed:provider_error

messagestringrequired

A sentence to show a person. Written to say what to do next. Reworded whenever it can be said better, so never branch on it.

Request

curl -X GET "https://api.pr-701.adcrunch.dev/observe/string/ads/string" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

const response = await fetch("https://api.pr-701.adcrunch.dev/observe/string/ads/string", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
  }
});

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.pr-701.adcrunch.dev/observe/string/ads/string",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
    },
)

Response

{
  "account_id": "1203456789012345",
  "adset_id": "120210000000001",
  "campaign_id": "120210000000000",
  "created_time": "2026-09-16T23:06:40+0000",
  "creative": {
    "id": "120210000000003"
  },
  "id": "120210000000002",
  "name": "Carousel — bestsellers",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "updated_time": "2026-09-20T10:26:40+0000"
}

{
  "issues": [
    {
      "in": "body",
      "message": "string",
      "path": "string"
    }
  ],
  "error": "invalid_request",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "error": "unauthorized",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "error": "forbidden",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "provider": "string",
  "error": "provider_not_connected",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "provider": "string",
  "error": "live_read_unsupported",
  "message": "string"
}

{
  "platformError": null,
  "provider": "string",
  "error": "provider_error",
  "message": "string"
}