Ad Copies

Updated: May 15, 2025

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Reading

The copies of this ad.

Example

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GET /v25.0/{ad-id}/copies HTTP/1.1
Host: graph.facebook.com

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Parameters

Parameter	Description
`date_preset` enum{today, yesterday, this_month, last_month, this_quarter, maximum, data_maximum, last_3d, last_7d, last_14d, last_28d, last_30d, last_90d, last_week_mon_sun, last_week_sun_sat, last_quarter, last_year, this_week_mon_today, this_week_sun_today, this_year}	Preset date range used to aggregate insights metrics
`effective_status` list<string>	Filter Ads by effective status
`time_range` {‘since’:YYYY-MM-DD,’until’:YYYY-MM-DD}	Time range used to aggregate insights metrics `since` datetime A date in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD", which means from the beginning midnight of that day. `until` datetime A date in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD", which means to the beginning midnight of the following day. Show child parameters
`updated_since` integer	Filter ads by updated since time

Fields

Reading from this edge will return a JSON formatted result:

{
"data": [],
"paging": {},
"summary": {}
}

data

A list of Ad nodes.

paging

For more details about pagination, see the Graph API guide.

summary

Aggregated information about the edge, such as counts. Specify the fields to fetch in the summary param (like summary=__type__).

Field	Description
`insights` Edge<AdsInsights>	Analytics summary for all objects
`total_count` unsigned int32	Total number of objects default

Error Codes

Error Code	Description
104	Incorrect signature

Creating

Targeting DSA Regulated Locations (European Union)

To copy an ad set targeted in the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) regulated locations, please set the payor/beneficiary information first. Otherwise the copying request may respond with one of the following errors:

Payor missing error

{
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid parameter",
    "type": "FacebookApiException",
    "code": 100,
    "error_data": "{\"blame_field_specs\":[[\"dsa_payor\"]]}",
    "error_subcode": 3858079,
    "is_transient": false,
    "error_user_title": "No payor provided in DSA regulated region",
    "error_user_msg": "The DSA requires ads to provide payor information in regulated regions. Updating/creating ad needs to provide payor of the ad.",
    "fbtrace_id": "fbtrace_id"
  },
  "__fb_trace_id__": "fbtrace_id",
  "__www_request_id__": "request_id"
}

Beneficiary missing error

{
  "error": {
    "message": "Invalid parameter",
    "type": "FacebookApiException",
    "code": 100,
    "error_data": "{\"blame_field_specs\":[[\"dsa_beneficiary\"]]}",
    "error_subcode": 3858081,
    "is_transient": false,
    "error_user_title": "No payor/beneficiary provided in DSA regulated location",
    "error_user_msg": "The DSA requires ads to provide beneficiary information in regulated regions. Updating/creating ad needs to provide beneficiary of the ad.",
    "fbtrace_id": "fbtrace_id"
  },
  "__fb_trace_id__": "fbtrace_id",
  "__www_request_id__": "request_id"
}

Creative Parameters

When making a copy of an ad, you may overwrite fields on the creative spec by using the creative_parameters argument. Currently, this supports overwriting the API spec at the top-level parameter level, i.e. when creative_parameter supplied, the new creative will use all of the newly provided value for any valid parameter. Otherwise, the values from the source ad’s creative will be used.

Find out more about the available fields in our documentation for ad creatives.

Creative spec overwrite example

Original creative

{
  "body": "original ad body",
  "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
    "creative_features_spec": {
      "text_optimizations": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      },
      "inline_comment": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      }
    }
  },
  "image_url": "https://example.com/my-image-url",
  "name": "original ad name",
  "title": "original ad body"
}

Supplied input for copy operation

{
  "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
    "creative_features_spec": {
      "text_optimizations": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      },
      "image_touchups": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      }
    }
  },
  "image_url": "https://example.com/my–other-image-url",
  "url_tags": "source=fb_ad"
}

Resulting creative

{
  "body": "original ad body",
  "degrees_of_freedom_spec": {
    "creative_features_spec": {
      "text_optimizations": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      },
      "image_touchups": {
        "enroll_status": "OPT_IN"
      }
    }
  },
  "image_url": "https://example.com/my–other-image-url",
  "name": "original ad name",
  "title": "original ad body",
  "url_tags": "source=fb_ad"
}

Note the following:

body, name, title are not supplied in the input spec, so they are carried over from the original

url_tags is defined in the input spec, but not in the original spec. It is defined in the new spec

image_url is defined in both. The input value is used in the new spec.

degrees_of_freedom_spec defines opt-ins for text_optimizations and inline_comment in the original spec, and only text_optimizations and image_touchups in the new spec. The input degrees_of_freedom_spec completely overrides the old one, and previously defined sub-fields are not used.

/{ad_id}/copies

You can make a POST request to copies edge from the following paths:

/{ad_id}/copies

When posting to this edge, an Ad will be created.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
`adset_id` numeric string or integer	Single ID of an adset object to make the parent of the copy. Ignore if you want to keep the copy under the original adset parent.
`creative_parameters` AdCreative	Creative inputs which will be used to construct the creative in the new ad. Overwrites happen at the top level. If no input is provided, the new ad will be created with an identical ad creative. If some input is provided, those parameters will be assigned to the ad creative created by this API call. Accepts all ad creative parameters as specified in /documentation/ads-commerce/marketing-api/reference/ad-account/adcreatives supports emoji
`rename_options` JSON or object-like arrays	Rename options `rename_strategy` enum {DEEP_RENAME, ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME, NO_RENAME} Default value: `ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME` `DEEP_RENAME`: will change this object's name and children's names in the copied object. `ONLY_TOP_LEVEL_RENAME`: will change the this object's name but won't change the children's name in the copied object. `NO_RENAME`: will change no name in the copied object `rename_prefix` string A prefix to copy names. Defaults to null if not provided. `rename_suffix` string A suffix to copy names. Defaults to null if not provided and appends a localized string of `- Copy` based on the ad account locale. Show child parameters
`status_option` enum {ACTIVE, PAUSED, INHERITED_FROM_SOURCE}	Default value: `PAUSED` `ACTIVE`: the copied ad will have active status. `PAUSED`: the copied ad will have paused status. `INHERITED_FROM_SOURCE`: the copied ad will have the parent status.

Return Type

This endpoint supports read-after-write and will read the node represented by copied_ad_id in the return type.

Struct  {
copied_ad_id: numeric string,
}

Error Codes

Error Code	Description
100	Invalid parameter
200	Permissions error

Updating

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.

Deleting

You can't perform this operation on this endpoint.