Remote view Facebook Adboard
Here's a script that let's you login with a facebook account and shows each advert from the adboard line by line, you could modify this code to insert unique url adverts into a database to study what sorts of adverts other advertisers are running.
This should make it easier for you to see where your adverts can be improved, you can then make subtle changes to your own adverts and hopefully increase your ctr and sales.
The script is in php and just requires you too modify two lines of code, these are your login details that are used within the curl login section, this is necessary with facebook as you must be logged in to retrieve the adboard. If you I'm to collect adverts then it may be advisable to create multiple accounts with different details such as age, gender, location to view the different adverts targeted at that type of user.
Warning Facebook do not approve of multiple accounts or remote data retrieval so I suggest using proxies to remain anonymous.
Here's the script, if you wish to download it then there is also a zipped attachment.
PHP Code:
<?
// Facebook Account Login - Possibly get banned if used too much
$login_email = "";
$login_pass = "";
//Nothing else needs editing
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.facebook.com/login.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'charset_test=%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E6%B0%B4%2C%D0%94%2C%D0%84&locale=en_US&email='.urlencode($login_email).'&pass='.urlencode($login_pass).'&pass_placeholder=&charset_test=%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E6%B0%B4%2C%D0%94%2C%D0%84');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, str_replace('\\','/',dirname(__FILE__)).'/fb_cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, str_replace('\\','/',dirname(__FILE__)).'/fb_cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 GTB5");
$html = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.facebook.com/ads/adboard/');
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