Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Scrape public ads from Google's Ads Transparency Center by advertiser, domain or ad URL, all into one dataset with one schema. Every ad row has the advertiser, the ad format (text, image or video), the website it points to, when it was first and last shown, how many days it ran, and the ad itself as an image or a preview link.

Filter by region, format and date range. Optional extras, each off by default and charged only when you turn it on:

• Ad details: the countries each ad ran in, with first and last shown dates per country.
• Ad text: for text ads, the headline, description and display URL, plus sitelinks or store locations, where Google provides the ad's text. Google shows most text ads only as an image, so this covers some text ads, not all; you pay only for ads whose text was found.
• Advertiser details: legal name, country and verification.

No Google account, login, cookies, browser or proxy needed, and no start fee: you pay only for data delivered.

What you can scrape

Input	Example	What you get
Advertisers	Nike, Inc., AR16735076323512287233, or https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR…	That advertiser's ads
Domains	nike.com or https://www.nike.com/	Every ad that points to that website, from any advertiser
Ad URLs	https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR…/creative/CR…	One row per ad, always with its ad details

Mix them freely in one run. An ad found by several sources is delivered (and charged) once. One run takes up to 100 advertisers, 100 domains and 1,000 ad URLs; split bigger lists across runs.

Advertiser names: Google lists many advertisers with similar names (searching "nike" returns a one-ad "Nike" account in Kenya before Nike, Inc.). A name is matched to the advertiser with the most ads whose name contains it, and the log and run summary say which one was used. For an exact match, give the advertiser ID (the AR… in its Transparency Center URL) or the domain.

How many results

Max ads (whole run) is the total for the run, split evenly across your sources unless you set Max ads per source.

Run it with no input and it does a short demo: 10 ads for nike.com.

Input examples

Image ads for nike.com shown in the UK

{
    "domains": ["nike.com"],
    "maxAds": 100,
    "region": "GB",
    "format": "image"
}

An advertiser's ads with their text

{
    "advertisers": ["AR16735076323512287233"],
    "maxAds": 50,
    "includeAdText": true
}

Where specific ads ran, with the advertiser's details

{
    "adUrls": ["https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/<AR-id>/creative/<CR-id>"],
    "includeAdvertiserDetails": true
}

An advertiser and a domain, every extra on (the input behind the sample output below)

{
    "advertisers": ["AR16735076323512287233"],
    "domains": ["booking.com"],
    "maxAds": 20,
    "includeAdDetails": true,
    "includeAdText": true,
    "includeAdvertiserDetails": true
}

Ads shown this year, every extra on

{
    "domains": ["nike.com"],
    "maxAds": 20,
    "shownFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "includeAdDetails": true,
    "includeAdText": true,
    "includeAdvertiserDetails": true
}

Output

One row per ad. The run's output has four tabs:

• Ads: one row per ad, with its image.
• Ad text: headline, description and display URL (with Include ad text on).
• Ad regions: one row per ad and country it ran in (with Include ad details on, and for ad URLs).
• Advertisers: the advertiser columns (with Include advertiser details on).

All fields

Sample ad row

One row from the run above: a Nike, Inc. text ad with every extra on. The preview URL is shortened here; the real output has it in full.

{
    "adId": "CR05391377373272735745",
    "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
    "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
    "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR05391377373272735745",
    "format": "text",
    "domain": null,
    "firstShownAt": "2023-11-16T22:18:40.000Z",
    "lastShownAt": "2026-11-07T01:48:51.000Z",
    "daysShown": 920,
    "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/7873886143592880939",
    "previewUrl": "https://displayads-formats.googleusercontent.com/ads/preview/content.js?client=ads-integrity-transparency&…",
    "headline": "Nike® Official Site",
    "description": "Built on defiance, tradition, and a legacy larger than game. Shop Nike® Jordan shoes.",
    "displayUrl": "nike.com",
    "adText": {
        "headlines": [
            "Nike® Official Site"
        ],
        "descriptions": [
            "Built on defiance, tradition, and a legacy larger than game. Shop Nike® Jordan shoes."
        ],
        "displayUrl": "nike.com",
        "sitelinks": [],
        "locations": [
            {
                "name": "Nike Factory Store - Aurora Farms",
                "street": "549 South Chillicothe Road #321",
                "city": "Aurora",
                "postalCode": "44202",
                "country": "US"
            }
        ]
    },
    "regions": [
        {
            "country": "US",
            "firstShownDate": null,
            "lastShownDate": "2026-11-06"
        }
    ],
    "advertiser": {
        "id": "AR16735076323512287233",
        "name": "Nike, Inc.",
        "legalName": "Nike, Inc.",
        "country": "US",
        "verified": true
    },
    "source": {
        "type": "advertiser",
        "value": "AR16735076323512287233",
        "position": 4,
        "region": "anywhere"
    },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-07T02:38:53.679Z"
}

In the Ad regions tab, each entry of regions becomes its own row next to the ad's advertiser and link. A booking.com ad in the same run ran in 13 countries.

Ad fields

Field	Description
adId, advertiserId, advertiserName	The ad (CR…) and its advertiser (AR…)
adUrl	The ad's page on the Transparency Center
format	text, image or video
domain	The website the ad points to. Google gives it on domain searches only, so it is empty on rows from advertisers and ad URLs
firstShownAt, lastShownAt	When the ad was first and last shown
daysShown	How many days it was shown (not on ads given by URL)
imageUrl	An image of the ad, when Google shows one (text ads often come as a rendered image too)
previewUrl	Google's preview of the ad, when Google shows one instead of an image
headline, description, displayUrl	Text ads, with Include ad text
adText	With Include ad text: all headlines and descriptions, displayUrl, sitelinks, store locations
regions	With ad details: [{ country, firstShownDate, lastShownDate }] (two-letter country codes; Google often gives only the last-shown date per country)
advertiser	With advertiser details: { id, name, legalName, country, verified }
source	Which input found the ad: { type, value, position, region }

Fields an option didn't fill are null, never guessed.

Inputs that couldn't be scraped

They are never dataset rows: each is logged, and listed with its reason in the RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store (errors), along with counts, the advertiser chosen for each name, and request statistics. They are never charged.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay for each ad delivered, plus each extra you turn on: ad details per ad (always for ads given by URL), ad text per text ad whose text was decoded, and advertiser details once per advertiser per run. Inputs that couldn't be scraped and duplicates are free, and there is no start fee. See the Pricing tab for current rates. This README deliberately doesn't quote figures.

If you set a spending limit on a run, the Actor stops when it is reached and keeps everything already paid for.

🚦 Proxy policy

No proxy is needed for Google Ads Transparency searches at this Actor's conservative request rate. If Google starts limiting a run, the Actor switches to the Apify Datacenter proxy by itself. You can also choose Apify Datacenter yourself.

Apify Residential proxy is not supported. The Actor will fail at startup if apifyProxyGroups includes RESIDENTIAL. Reason: in pay-per-event Actors, residential bandwidth is billed per GB to the developer, not the run user, so a single bandwidth-heavy run could exceed the per-result event revenue.

If you genuinely need residential routing, supply your own residential provider via the proxy editor's Custom proxy URLs field. That traffic goes through your provider, not Apify, and is unaffected:

http://user:pass@proxy.iproyal.com:12321
http://user:pass@proxy.brightdata.com:22225
http://user:pass@proxy.oxylabs.io:7777

FAQ

Why is the total a range? Google reports how many ads a source has as a range (for example 50,000–60,000), not an exact number. It's in the run summary's sourceReports.

What is {KeyWord:…} in ad text? Keyword insertion: the ad shows the searcher's keyword in that place. The text after the colon is what everyone else sees.

Why do most text ads have no text? The text is decoded from Google's ad preview. Google shows most text ads only as an image of the ad: in testing, 89–100% of an advertiser's text ads, depending on the advertiser. For those, the text stays null and you aren't charged for it; the image (imageUrl) still shows the ad. The Actor doesn't read text out of images.

Why does a headline say " That's a Dynamic Search Ad: Google writes the headline from the advertiser's landing page for each search, and the Transparency Center shows this placeholder instead. The Actor returns Google's text as it is.

Can I download the videos? No. Video ads come with their preview link. The Actor doesn't download creatives.

Do the image links last? They are Google-hosted and have stayed available in testing, but Google can change them. Save what you need.

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Data and privacy

This Actor collects only what Google's Ads Transparency Center shows publicly, which Google publishes so the public can see who advertises. Most advertisers are businesses, but some are individuals, so advertiser names can be personal data. You are responsible for having a lawful basis to process them and for following the laws that apply to you, including the GDPR where relevant, and Google's terms. Ad creatives belong to their advertisers.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google.