Google Ads Transparency Leads Scraper — Advertisers & Live Google Ads

Hunting brands on the Google Ads Transparency Center by hand does not scale. Paste one URL and get verified advertisers, live creatives, and run dates as clean JSON in seconds — built for competitor research, agency prospecting, and compliance workflows.

Engineering Excellence & Reliability 🚀

• One URL, two superpowers: Domain or advertiser pages return every matching ad creative; keyword URLs (q=) return advertiser leads (names, IDs, regions, ad-volume bands, related domains).
• Official public data: Same disclosures anyone can open in the Transparency Center — Search, YouTube, Display, Shopping, and more.
• Pagination handled for you: Large pulls keep going up to your maxItems; duplicate creatives are skipped.
• We bypass the website limitation and go beyond it. Duplicates are skipped.
• Optional fetchFullDetails: When Google returns a full creative record, you get the richer JSON in the same row — no second export step.
• Clean exports: JSON, CSV, Excel, or API — ready for CRMs, dashboards, and AI pipelines.

🛠️ How to Play

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrl	String	(Required) Transparency Center URL — see examples below.
maxItems	Number	Max ads or leads to save (default 100).
fetchFullDetails	Boolean	Detail RPC (EU impressions / countryStats), preview script fetch, optional OCR.
ocrAdText	Boolean	OCR simgad images for on-creative copy when details are on (default true).

Example 1 — Competitor ads by domain (US)

Copy the URL from your browser after searching a site on Ads Transparency Center.

{
  "startUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&domain=nike.com",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchFullDetails": false
}

Example 2 — Advertiser lead list by keyword

Use q= (or query=) for advertiser and domain suggestions — ideal for outbound prospecting.

{
  "startUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&q=insurance",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "fetchFullDetails": false
}

Example 3 — Deep creative payload

{
  "startUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=DE&domain=booking.com",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "fetchFullDetails": true
}

🆓 Free tier limitations

Try the actor before you scale:

• Up to 5 items per run on the free plan.
• 5 runs per calendar day (UTC).
• At least 60 seconds between runs.

Need higher volume? Upgrade to a paid Apify plan for full maxItems and no cooldown.

📦 What’s in the Box?

Each ad is one JSON object aligned with Store actors (Lexis / vulcandata field names — not raw RPC keys):

{
  "recordType": "ad",
  "id": "CR11870357563881029633",
  "creativeId": "CR11870357563881029633",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "landingDomain": "nike.com",
  "format": "IMAGE",
  "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR11870357563881029633?region=US",
  "originUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&domain=nike.com",
  "firstShownAt": "1669826175",
  "lastShownAt": "1792091177",
  "firstShown": "2022-11-30",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-15",
  "numServedDays": 1090,
  "impressions": null,
  "shownCountries": ["United States"],
  "countryStats": [],
  "audienceSelections": [],
  "variants": [{ "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/...", "images": ["https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/..."] }],
  "previewHtml": "<img src=\"https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/...\">",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/...",
  "searchTotalAdsMin": "8000",
  "searchTotalAdsMax": "9000",
  "region": "US",
  "searchDomain": "nike.com"
}

TEXT/VIDEO rows include previewUrl / contentJsUrl; TEXT ads get copy from the overlay= parameter when present. IMAGE ads with fetchFullDetails + ocrAdText run Tesseract on simgad previews (~1s/ad) so plain image creatives still get searchable adText (adTextSource: "ocr"). Detail uses the public GetCreativeById shape {5:{1,2,3:geo}} (field 17 → countryStats / EU impression bands); the actor retries viewer geo US/DE/GB/FR.

Each advertiser lead (keyword search) looks like this:

{
  "recordType": "advertiser_lead",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "region": "US",
  "adsCountMin": 9000,
  "adsCountMax": 10000,
  "verified": true,
  "advertiserUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233?region=US",
  "searchKeyword": "nike",
  "startUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?region=US&q=nike"
}

Domain leads use recordType: "domain_lead" with domain, transparencySearchUrl, and searchKeyword.

Contact 📬

Need a custom solution? Have a feature request or just want to chat? We'd love to hear from you!

• 💬 Discord: @azzouzana
• 📧 Email: labs@azzouzana.com

⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. It collects only public information published in the Google Ads Transparency Center. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Google’s terms. Learn more about scraping legality on the Apify blog.

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