Spy on competitor ads in the Google Ads Transparency Center: every Google ad a company or website runs (Search, YouTube, Display, Shopping) with ad text, format, first/last shown dates, previews and countries, plus new-ad alerts. Pay per ad plus a small start fee, no platform fees.
First release: ads and advertisers from the Google Ads Transparency Center by advertiser name, website domain, advertiser ID or pasted Transparency Center link.
Filters: region (any country or anywhere), ad format, shown-between dates or "shown in the last N days".
Google Ads ids per ad (customer, ad group, creative) from the preview link, where Google includes them.
Name search picks the matching advertiser accounts (exact matches first, look-alike names never used).
Ad details (optional): countries shown with first/last shown per country, variations, YouTube video of video ads, landing page.
Only new ads: monitoring memory in a named key-value store; scheduled runs return and charge only ads not delivered before.
Each ad is delivered and charged once per run, even when several searches find it.
Pay per event (run start, ad, ad details, advertiser); progress saved before every charge; maximum cost per run respected across parallel searches; resumes after migrations without double charges.
Refused requests (429, "unusual traffic") are retried from new proxy sessions with growing pauses and an automatic residential fallback; CAPTCHAs are never solved.
Near the run's timeout, retries stop early so the run always saves its OUTPUT summary.
Advertisers mode: each advertiser is delivered and charged once per run, also with parallel searches.
With a region, advertiser rows from a name search keep only accounts that have ads in that country.
If Google's answer format changes, searches fail with a clear message (free) instead of returning an empty success.
Detail lookups stop after Google refuses them for 3 ads in a row; ads keep coming without details.
"Dr.Oetker"-style brand names are searched as names, not domains. Single-ad links look through at most 5,000 ads.
From the first live run: Ad details now read the ad's text (headline, description, display URL, business name) and Shopping product title and image from Google's preview; countries shown are country codes (Google publishes no per-country dates); image ads get an image from their preview; the unreliable "verified" field is removed.
Ad text: HTML entities such as & are decoded.
Launch listing: title "Competitor Ad Library", tiered prices by Apify plan (ads from $1.20 per 1,000), README rebuilt around our own live sample, main markets first in the region list, billing helper that plans budgets with tiered prices.
