# Changelog of Google Ads Transparency Scraper · No Login · $0.2/1k (`alfalfa/google-ads-transparency-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alfalfa/google-ads-transparency-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/alfalfa/google-ads-transparency-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-17 (status, date presets, advertiser website)

- `adStatus`: `active` (shown within the last 30 days) or `inactive` (not shown for more than 30 days), judged by each ad's last-shown date on the day of the run.
- `datePreset`: `last7Days`, `last30Days`, `last90Days`, `lastYear`, the same choices as the date picker on Google's site; explicit shown-after / shown-before dates take precedence.
- A shown-after date alone and a shown-before date alone now work (before, one date without the other was ignored by Google), and shown-before includes the given day.
- New field `advertiserDomain`: the website the advertiser's ads lead to (searched domain for domain queries, confirmed against the advertiser's ads for names and IDs), also in the Overview table. `scrapeAdvertiserDomain: false` skips the lookup.
- With details on, an ad whose exact last-shown date falls outside the requested `adStatus` is dropped instead of saved.
- Queries with no ads (unknown advertiser, nothing for the filters) are listed in the run's status message and in a `NO_ADS_FOUND` record of the run's key-value store; they add no row, cost nothing and do not fail the run.

### 2026-09-17 (prices)

- Prices lowered: $0.30 per 1,000 ads on the free plan, $0.27 / $0.24 / $0.20 on Starter / Scale / Business (was $0.50 / $0.45 / $0.40 / $0.35). Still no start fee; the price per ad is the final price, platform usage included.

### 2026-09-14 (run log)

- Network error messages in the run log no longer include server addresses.

### 2026-09-14 (first release)

- Ads of any advertiser (by name, ID or page URL) or website domain from Google's Ads Transparency Center, without a login or an API key.
- Filters: region, platforms (Search, YouTube, Maps, Play, Shopping), formats, shown-after and shown-before dates.
- Details per ad: regions with last-shown dates, all preview variants; media option with YouTube video ids, thumbnails, image assets and the texts of shopping and local ads.
- $0.50 per 1,000 ads, no start fee. Run budget honoured before an ad is fetched.
- Unknown advertisers and empty searches end with a status message instead of a failed run.

### 2026-09-14 (review round, before the Store release)

- Advertiser identity (verified, legal name, country) for name sources comes from the advertiser record.
- The same ad reached through two sources (name and ID, or a domain) is saved and charged once.
- Media are read only for image and video ads; text ads are screenshots and were fetched for nothing.
- Image URLs in previews are unescaped correctly.
- A task starved by the run budget ends with a note instead of "failed"; format-filtered scans stop after 25 empty pages.