Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper

See every Google ad a competitor is running: Search, Display, Shopping and YouTube ads from the official Google Ads Transparency Center. Search by brand name, website domain or advertiser ID, filter by country and format (text, image, video), and get first and last shown dates, preview links and a direct link to each ad. You pay only per ad delivered.

What you get

Field	Description
advertiserName, advertiserId	The verified advertiser behind the ad
creativeId	Google's ID of the ad
format	TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO
firstShown, lastShown	When the ad was first and last shown (ISO dates)
previewUrl	Google's preview of the ad (image, or render script for text ads)
imageUrl	Direct image for image ads and video thumbnails
adUrl	Link to the ad in the Transparency Center
search, matchedAdvertiser	Which of your searches produced the ad, and the advertiser it matched

Example item:

{
  "search": "patagonia.com",
  "advertiserName": "PATAGONIA, INC.",
  "advertiserId": "AR13494478831020408833",
  "creativeId": "CR15911562773100756993",
  "format": "IMAGE",
  "firstShown": "2026-08-02T10:15:00.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-09-28T21:40:00.000Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/...",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR13494478831020408833/creative/CR15911562773100756993?region=US"
}

How to use

1. In Advertisers, enter one or more of:
   • a website domain, such as nike.com (most precise: every advertiser that advertises that site);
   • a brand name, such as Nike (matched to the advertiser with the same name, otherwise the one with the most ads; the match is shown in matchedAdvertiser);
   • an advertiser ID starting with AR.
2. Pick a Country (or anywhere) and optionally an Ad format.
3. Set Max ads per advertiser and run. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it through the API, Make, Zapier or n8n, or from an AI agent via MCP.

Use cases

• Competitor research: what your competitors advertise, in which formats, since when.
• Creative inspiration: collect image and video ads in your niche.
• Agency prospecting and audits: check whether a brand is advertising on Google at all.
• Market monitoring: schedule the Actor weekly and track new ads.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 ads ($0.0015 each), charged only for ads delivered. Searches that find no advertiser or no ads are reported and free. Equivalent searches (nike.com, https://www.nike.com/) run once, and an ad found by more than one of your searches (for example a domain and an advertiser ID) is delivered, and charged, only once, under the first search. The run stops by itself when your spending limit is reached.

Errors (not charged)

• ADVERTISER_NOT_FOUND: no advertiser matches the name; try the website domain.
• NO_ADS: the advertiser has no ads for this country.
• INVALID_INPUT: empty search or unsupported country.
• BLOCKED / RATE_LIMITED / UPSTREAM_ERROR: Google refused the request after all retries (the Actor retries automatically through datacenter and residential proxies).

FAQ

Is this legal? The Ads Transparency Center is a public database that Google publishes so anyone can see who advertises and what. This Actor reads only that public information and does not log in.

Why does a brand name return a different company? Several advertisers can share a name. Use the website domain or the advertiser ID for exact results.

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