STR Ad Spy

Find every short-term-rental management company advertising to owners in your market, and read their exact ads.

Give it a market. It comes back with the operators, their hooks and their offers.

"What are the short term rental management companies in Nashville advertising?"

Measured: that question returns 16 ads from about 10 real Nashville operators in roughly eight seconds.

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Setup (about 3 minutes, one time)

1. Download the setup file

Get STR-AD-SPY-SETUP.md — click it, then click the download button. Or grab the latest release if you'd rather have the zip.

2. Open the Claude Code desktop app

3. Drag STR-AD-SPY-SETUP.md into the chat box

4. Type: set this up

That's it. Claude reads the file and walks you through the rest, one step at a time. You do not need to read that file yourself.

You will not need a terminal. Connecting to Meta is a few clicks in the app's Settings, then a Facebook sign-in. Claude gives you each click.

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What you need

• Claude Code, on a paid plan
• A personal Facebook profile to sign in with, not a Page
• A Meta ad account. Almost everyone already has one. If you have ever opened Ads Manager, you have one. Claude checks for you.

No API keys. No Apify. No credit card. Nothing to pay for.

It runs on Meta's own Ad Library server, which is free. Meta is legally required to publish political and commercial ad data, and this reads it.

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Once it's set up

Ask in plain English:

What are the short term rental management companies in Austin advertising?

Swap in your market. Good follow-ups:

• "Which of these is advertising to owners rather than guests?"
• "Which one has run the same ad the longest?"
• "Rewrite the winning hook for my business."
• "What angle is nobody in my market using?"

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What's in here

File	What it is
STR-AD-SPY-SETUP.md	The installer. Drag this into Claude Code.
START-HERE.txt	The same instructions, plain text.
STR-Ad-Spy.zip	Both files, if you prefer a download.

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Notes from testing

A few things that were measured, so you know why it behaves the way it does:

• Search the service, never "property management." Nashville short term rental management returns 16 useful ads. Nashville property management returns 9,089, and none of the first 25 were in the market.
• A zero on the first phrase means nothing. Across nine markets the first phrase returned zero in four of them, and those markets were not empty. Destin looked dead and had the best ads of the whole set.
• Some markets advertise to guests, not owners. At the Jersey Shore every management phrase returned zero while real operators were running ads the whole time. The skill knows to switch vocabularies.
• Hundreds of results is a broken search, not a big market.

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