# Save ads with the Chrome extension

> Install Sellify Ad Spy from the Chrome Web Store, connect it to your workspace with a setup code and save ads from the Meta Ad Library and Instagram.

The Sellify Ad Spy extension puts a **Save to Sellify** button on ads in the Meta Ad Library and on Instagram. Ads you save land in **Saved ads**, ready to organize into boards.

It is for people who research directly in the Ad Library and do not want to find the same ad twice.

Open **Ad Spy → Extension** to set it up. The page has **Add to Chrome**, **Open Meta Ad Library** and the setup-code panel, and walks through the same steps as below.

## Before you start

You need Google Chrome and permission to install extensions on your machine. The extension only works against a workspace that has Ad Spy and the extension turned on. If either is off, saving fails with a message saying Ad Spy, or the Ad Spy Chrome extension, is not enabled for this workspace.

Saving an ad through the extension costs about 0.15 credits when Sellify has to fetch it from Meta. Saves completed from Sellify's own archive, and attempts to save an ad that is already saved, do not incur the charge. See [Understand credits](https://sellify.ai/docs/credits).

## Set it up

You do this once per workspace.

1. **Install from the Chrome Web Store**

   Select **Add to Chrome** on the extension page. It opens the Chrome Web Store listing for Sellify Ad Spy; select **Add to Chrome** there and confirm **Add extension**.

2. **Pin Sellify in your toolbar**

   Select the extensions icon in Chrome, find Sellify and pin it. Pinning keeps the extension visible while you research.

3. **Open the extension**

   Select the Sellify icon in your toolbar. The popup opens on **Connect your workspace**.

4. **Create your setup code**

   Back on the Sellify extension page, select **Create setup code**. Sellify copies it to your clipboard and shows it once, so copy it now if the clipboard was blocked.

5. **Paste the setup code into the extension**

   In the popup, paste the code into **Workspace setup code**, tick **I understand and agree to this data use**, and select **Save connection**. Confirm the Sellify app URL the popup shows matches the one on the setup page. The popup then reads **Connected to Sellify**.

6. **Open Meta Ad Library**

   Select **Meta Ad Library** under **Open a source** in the popup. Chrome opens the Meta Ad Library in a new tab.

7. **Save an ad and add it to boards**

   On any ad, select **Save to Sellify**. Once it reads **Saved to Sellify**, select **Add to boards** to file it in one or more boards.

## Instagram works too

The extension adds the same **Save to Sellify** button on Instagram. Select **Instagram** under **Open a source** in the popup to get there. The setup page only talks about the Meta Ad Library, so this one is easy to miss.

## What happens to a saved ad

If Sellify already holds a usable copy of the ad in its archive, it saves that copy directly. Otherwise it fetches and verifies the ad from Meta before adding it, so what lands in your workspace matches the real ad rather than whatever was on screen.

Saved ads go to **Saved ads**. Add them to boards from the **Add to boards** dialog the extension shows straight after saving, or later from [Saved ads](https://sellify.ai/docs/ad-spy/boards).

## Setup codes and data use

Setup codes are per workspace and per person. The extension page lists your active codes with when each was created and last used, and lets you revoke one. You can hold up to 10 active codes; revoke an old one if you hit the limit. Revoking a code stops the extension that used it from saving until you connect it again.

The popup has a **Data use** switch. While it is on, saving sends the public ad identifier and your workspace token to Sellify. Switch it off and the extension pauses: no ad identifiers and no save requests are sent until you turn it back on. The popup still checks its connection status with your workspace token when it opens. **Disconnect** clears the connection entirely.

## If something's not right

### The Save to Sellify button doesn't appear

**Why this happens:** the extension is not installed or enabled, you are not connected yet, or the tab was already open when you installed it.

**What to do:** reload the Ad Library tab first, since extensions do not apply to tabs that were already open. If the button reads **Open Sellify to connect** instead, you are not connected; redo the setup-code step.

### It saves but nothing shows up in Sellify

**Why this happens:** the extension is connected to a different workspace than the one you are looking at. Ads go to whichever workspace issued the setup code.

**What to do:** open **Ad Spy → Extension** in the workspace you want, create a fresh setup code, open the popup, select **Manage connection**, paste the new code and select **Update connection**. Check the app URL the popup shows under **Connected to Sellify** matches too.

### The popup says Update required

**Why this happens:** this version of the extension is older than the minimum Sellify accepts, so saving is refused.

**What to do:** select **Update Sellify** in the popup, or update the extension from the Chrome Web Store, then reload the Ad Library tab.

### It says Ad Spy is not enabled for this workspace

**Why this happens:** the workspace does not have Ad Spy, or the Chrome extension feature, turned on, or its subscription does not include them.

**What to do:** open Ad Spy in the app for that workspace. If it does not load there either, see [Understand plans, credits and workshop access](https://sellify.ai/docs/credits/plans-and-access).

### Saving is paused

**Why this happens:** the **Data use** switch in the popup is off.

**What to do:** open the popup and turn **Data use** back on. Saving resumes immediately.

## Related

[Organize saved ads into boards](https://sellify.ai/docs/ad-spy/boards) · [Discover and save competitor ads](https://sellify.ai/docs/ad-spy/discover-and-save) · [Understand credits](https://sellify.ai/docs/credits)