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Report March 2026

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Commitment 11
Relevant Signatories commit to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) or other interfaces enabling users and researchers to perform customised searches within their ad repositories of political or issue advertising and to include a set of minimum functionalities as well as a set of minimum search criteria for the application of APIs or other interfaces.
We signed up to the following measures of this commitment
Measure 11.1 Measure 11.2 Measure 11.3 Measure 11.4
In line with this commitment, did you deploy new implementation measures (e.g. changes to your terms of service, new tools, new policies, etc)?
No
If yes, list these implementation measures here
Meta’s Ad Library application programming interface (“API”) allows users to perform custom keyword searches of ads stored in the Ad Library. Users can search data for all inactive ads about social issues, elections or politics. For people less familiar with the API solution, we provide a simpler research solution with our Ad Library report.
Do you plan to put further implementation measures in place in the next 6 months to substantially improve the maturity of the implementation of this commitment?
N/A
If yes, which further implementation measures do you plan to put in place in the next 6 months?
N/A
Measure 11.1
Relevant Signatories' APIs or other interfaces will provide a set of minimum functionalities and search criteria that enable users and researchers to perform customised searches for data in as close to real time as possible (in particular during elections) in standard formats, including for instance searches per advertiser or candidate, per geographic area or country, per language, per keyword, per election, or per other targeting criteria, to allow for research and monitoring.
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QRE 11.1.1 (for Measures 11.1-11.4)
Details extracted from JSON files.
The Ad Library API provides access data about ads about social issues, elections or politics from countries where the Ad Library is live, including European Union countries. The results returned from the API include: 
- Ad creatives 
- Ad performance data including total amount spent (range) 
- Total impressions an ad received (range) 
- Demographics: age, gender, and location of people reached (%) 
- Dates the ad ran 

The Ad Library API provides programmatic access to information about ads about politics or issues in the Library. You can search data for all active and inactive ads about social issues, elections or politics. In the EU, anyone with a Facebook account can complete these steps to access the API. 

Anyone can explore the ad library, with or without a Facebook account. However, reporting ads and viewing adult content both require the user to have an account and to be logged in.