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Google Ads Transparency Scraper

See the ads any company runs on Google. Give an advertiser name, a website domain, or a link from the Google Ads Transparency Center, and the run returns that advertiser's ads the way the Transparency Center lists them: advertiser id and name, creative id, format, first and last shown dates, the countries each ad ran in, platforms, preview links and the ad text from Google's own preview.

Every value comes from the public Transparency Center. Nothing is estimated, guessed or filled in. When Google does not publish a value for an ad, the field is null.

What you get for each ad

Field	What it is
advertiserId, advertiserName	The advertiser account on the Transparency Center (ids start with AR)
advertiserCountry, verified	Country Google lists for the advertiser, and whether its identity is verified
advertiserTotalAds	How many ads Google lists for the advertiser in total (Google gives a range, for example 9000 to 10000)
creativeId (also adId)	The ad's id on the Transparency Center (starts with CR)
adFormat	TEXT, IMAGE or VIDEO
firstShown, lastShown, daysShown	First and last day Google showed the ad, and on how many days it ran
region	Country codes the ad ran in
regionDetails	Per country: first and last shown dates, and impression ranges and platforms where Google publishes them (mostly EU countries)
platform	Platforms Google reports for the ad: SEARCH, YOUTUBE, SHOPPING, MAPS, PLAY
imageUrl, imageUrls	Google's archived image of the ad, and images found in its preview
previewScriptUrl	Google's preview script for the ad (what the Transparency Center renders)
adText	Text lines read from Google's preview of the ad (headline, description, display URL and so on)
videoUrl, youtubeVideoId	The YouTube video of a video ad, when the preview names it
category, targeting, eeaImpressions, landingPageUrl	Extra details Google publishes for some ads (mainly ads shown in the EU)
transparencyUrl, advertiserUrl	Links to the ad and the advertiser on the Transparency Center
previewStatus, detailsStatus	Whether the preview and the per-country details were read

Three ways to pick the advertiser

By name (advertiserName). The run uses the Transparency Center's own advertiser search, keeps the names that contain every word you typed, and picks the one with the most ads that match your filters. The log and the OUTPUT record list the candidates it compared. Companies often advertise through several accounts (for example "Nike, Inc." and "Nike Retail BV"); set maxAdvertisers to include more than one. An advertiser id such as AR16735076323512287233 also works here.

By website (domain). Returns the ads that lead to a domain, for example homedepot.com, from every advertiser that runs them.

By link (advertiserUrl). Paste an advertiser page (https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR...), a single ad (.../advertiser/AR.../creative/CR...), or a domain search (?domain=...) from the Transparency Center.

If you fill in more than one, the run uses the first of: link, domain, name, search box text.

Filters

Input	Values	Default
region	US, GB, CA, AU, DE, FR, ES, IT, JP, BR, IN, or ALL	US
adFormat	ALL, TEXT, IMAGE, VIDEO	ALL
platform	ALL, SEARCH, YOUTUBE, SHOPPING, MAPS, PLAY (DISPLAY has no filter on the Transparency Center and returns every platform)	ALL
dateRange	7_DAYS, 30_DAYS, 90_DAYS, 1_YEAR, ALL_TIME	30_DAYS
maxAds	1 to 500 ads per advertiser (or per domain)	50
maxAdvertisers	1 to 5 advertiser accounts for a name search	1
includeCreatives	Read each ad's preview for its text, images and video	true
webhookUrl	Optional URL that receives each ad as JSON	none

Input examples

An advertiser by name, last 30 days, United States:

{
  "advertiserName": "Nike",
  "region": "US",
  "dateRange": "30_DAYS",
  "maxAds": 50
}

Video ads that lead to a website, last 90 days:

{
  "domain": "homedepot.com",
  "adFormat": "VIDEO",
  "dateRange": "90_DAYS",
  "maxAds": 20
}

One advertiser by its Transparency Center link, all countries, any time:

{
  "advertiserUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233",
  "region": "ALL",
  "dateRange": "ALL_TIME",
  "maxAds": 100
}

Output example

A real row (shortened) from a run with "advertiserName": "Nike":

{
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "advertiserCountry": "US",
  "verified": true,
  "advertiserTotalAds": { "min": 9000, "max": 10000 },
  "creativeId": "CR04739221842466701313",
  "adFormat": "TEXT",
  "firstShown": "2023-11-16",
  "lastShown": "2026-11-03",
  "daysShown": 949,
  "region": ["US"],
  "regionDetails": [
    { "regionCode": "US", "regionName": "United States", "geoId": 2840, "firstShown": null, "lastShown": "2026-11-03", "impressions": null, "platforms": [] }
  ],
  "platform": [],
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/1487710635456515896",
  "adText": ["Sponsored", "Nike", "nike.com", "Nike® Official Site", "Shop the official Nike® store for the latest shoes, apparel & gear."],
  "transparencyUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR04739221842466701313?region=US",
  "previewStatus": "ok",
  "detailsStatus": "ok"
}

When a lookup finds nothing, the dataset gets one free status row instead (status is advertiser_not_found, no_ads_found, not_found or error, with a message that says what to try).

What Google does not publish

• Spend. The Transparency Center shows spend only for political ads, so this Actor returns none for ordinary advertisers.
• Impressions and platforms outside the EU. Google publishes impression ranges and per-platform numbers mainly for ads shown in the EU and a few other regions. For a US-only ad, impressions is null and platform is empty.
• Searching ad text. The Transparency Center searches advertiser names and website domains, not the words inside ads. The searchQuery box works like the site's search box.
• Previews for every ad. For some ads Google cannot render a preview; previewStatus is then google_cannot_render_preview and adText is null.
• Per-country first dates. For some countries Google reports when an ad was first shown only within its reporting window, so a country's firstShown can be later than the ad's overall firstShown.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event billing:

Event	When it is charged	Price
Actor start	Once when the run starts, one event per GB of memory (minimum one). At the default 4 GB of memory a run starts at $0.40	$0.10 per GB
Ad Scraped	Per ad scraped from Google Ads Transparency Center	$0.10
Result	Each item written to the default dataset	$0.00001

An ad is charged once, after it is saved with its details. Status rows, ads whose details could not be read, and demo rows are not charged as ads. Set a maximum charge for the run and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Demo mode

Set demoMode to true to get 2 labeled sample rows (demo: true, with a _notice) that show the output format. Demo mode reads nothing from Google and charges no ads.

How it reads the Transparency Center

The Actor calls the same public endpoints the Transparency Center website uses, with the same filters, and paces its requests. When Google refuses a request it moves to an Apify residential proxy session, and as a last step to a stealth Firefox browser (Camoufox) that makes the same calls from inside the Transparency Center page. It never logs in to anything.

Troubleshooting

The run picked the wrong advertiser. Use the full name as Google shows it (for example "Home Depot U.S.A. Inc."), raise maxAdvertisers, or paste the advertiser's Transparency Center link. The OUTPUT record lists every candidate the run compared.

No ads found. Many advertisers run few ads in a given country or month. Try region ALL, a longer dateRange, or the advertiser's website domain.

The run failed with "did not answer". Google refused every request for a while. Run it again later.

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