Google Ads Transparency Scraper & Funnel Spy | $1.50/1K Ads

Google Ads Transparency Scraper — Ad Copy, Unlisted YouTube Video & Funnel Spy

Extract live and historical competitor ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center by domain, brand name, Advertiser ID (AR...), or pasted Transparency URL — enriched with exact landing page paths, unlisted YouTube video URLs, decoded ad copy, ad longevity (daysRunning), and landing page pixel/funnel teardowns.

Built on a stateless high-speed HTTP RPC engine (runs on just 256 MB RAM with near-zero compute overhead — no slow headless browser crashes, no login, and no cookies required).

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Why Performance Marketers & Agencies Choose This Actor

Most Google Ads scrapers only give you a bare creative ID or fail on pagination. This Actor goes three steps deeper:

1. Uncovers Hidden Creative Assets (includeCreativeDetails: true):
   • Extracts unlisted YouTube ad video URLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...) and high-res thumbnails from Video/Demand Gen preview bundles.
   • Extracts exact paid-traffic landing page subpaths (e.g., https://competitor.com/lp/free-trial instead of just competitor.com).
   • Captures multi-size creative variations, ad copy snippets, and regional impression dates.
2. Winner / Evergreen Ad Filtering (minDaysRunning):
   • Filter straight to ads running 14+, 30+, or 90+ days — if a competitor pays Google for the same creative for months, that angle converts.
3. Optional Landing Page & Pixel Teardown (analyzeLandingPage: true, off by default):
   • Runs only on exact landing URLs decoded from the creative (landingPageSource: "creative_preview"), so it needs includeCreativeDetails. The root-domain fallback (advertiser_domain_fallback) is never analyzed or charged.
   • Scans the destination page once per unique URL to extract Page Title, H1/H2 Hero Hooks, Pricing/Free-Trial Signals, CTA Copy, Retargeting Pixels (Meta Pixel, Google Ads gtag, GTM, TikTok Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, Clarity, Hotjar), and CMS/Commerce Stack (Shopify, Webflow, Next.js, Stripe, Klaviyo, HubSpot).
4. Scheduled Competitor Monitoring (onlyNewAds: true):
   • Schedule daily or weekly runs and connect to Slack, Telegram, Make, n8n, or Zapier to get alerted only when a competitor launches a brand-new ad creative.

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Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
domains	string[]	["shopify.com"]	Competitor domains to spy on (monday.com, notion.so, etc.).
queries	string[]	[]	Brand names or keywords (auto-resolves best verified AR... advertiser).
advertiserIds	string[]	[]	Direct Google Advertiser IDs (AR15972262369074085889).
startUrls	string[]	[]	Direct URLs pasted from adstransparency.google.com.
resultType	"ads" | "advertisers"	"ads"	Extract ad creatives or discover verified advertiser accounts. advertisers searches queries plus domains (a domain with no direct match is retried as its brand name, e.g. shopify.com → shopify).
region	string	"US"	ISO-2 country code (US, GB, DE, FR, CA, AU, TR, BR, IN, JP, etc.).
adFormat	"ALL" | "TEXT" | "IMAGE" | "VIDEO"	"ALL"	Filter by ad format.
maxAdsPerTarget	integer	25	Max ads to extract per target (supports automatic multi-page token pagination).
minDaysRunning	integer	0	Keep only proven ads running at least N days.
onlyActiveAds	boolean	false	Keep only ads shown within the last 7 days.
includeCreativeDetails	boolean	true	Enrich variations, unlisted YouTube video URLs, exact landing URLs, and ad text.
analyzeLandingPage	boolean	false	Paid add-on: extract H1 hooks, offer signals, pixels, and tech stack from exact landing pages (requires includeCreativeDetails).
onlyNewAds	boolean	false	Stateful deduplication across scheduled runs.

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Sample Output Record

{
  "creativeId": "CR08249508655150000000",
  "advertiserId": "AR13684162165480030209",
  "advertiserName": "Shopify Inc.",
  "domain": "shopify.com",
  "landingPageUrl": "https://shopify.com/free-trial",
  "landingPageSource": "creative_preview",
  "format": "VIDEO",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "firstShown": "2026-08-14T10:15:00.000Z",
  "lastShown": "2026-11-12T06:20:00.000Z",
  "daysRunning": 90,
  "isEvergreenWinner": true,
  "region": "US",
  "youtubeVideoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIzUaZonnD8",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gIzUaZonnD8/hqdefault.jpg",
  "adCopySnippets": [
    "Start your free trial today",
    "Build and scale your online store on Shopify"
  ],
  "variationCount": 3,
  "transparencyUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR13684162165480030209/creative/CR08249508655150000000?region=US",
  "landingPageIntel": {
    "analyzedUrl": "https://shopify.com/free-trial",
    "httpStatus": 200,
    "fetchOk": true,
    "pageTitle": "Start a Free Trial — Shopify",
    "h1Hooks": ["Bring your ideas to life for $1/month"],
    "offerSignals": ["free trial", "$1/month"],
    "adPixelsDetected": ["google_ads_gtag", "google_tag_manager", "meta_pixel", "tiktok_pixel"],
    "techStackDetected": ["shopify", "cloudflare"],
    "funnelReadinessScore": 95
  }
}

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Pricing (Transparent Pay-Per-Event)

No monthly Apify subscription required — pay strictly for what you extract:

• Ad Creative Extracted (ad-scraped): $0.0015 per creative ($1.50 / 1,000 ads)
• Full Creative & YouTube/Copy Decode (creative-detail-fetched): $0.0015 per enriched creative (optional via includeCreativeDetails)
• Competitor Landing Page Funnel Teardown (landing-page-analyzed): $0.01 per unique landing URL analyzed (cached per run, optional via analyzeLandingPage, off by default)

How charging works:

• ad-scraped is charged first, per ad. Add-on events are only charged for ads that were already paid for.
• landing-page-analyzed is charged only after the page loads successfully (HTTP 2xx) and only for exact landing URLs decoded from the creative. Blocked or failed pages return landingPageIntel.fetchOk: false, funnelReadinessScore: null, and cost nothing. Root-domain fallbacks are never analyzed.
• If the run's maximum charge limit is reached, the Actor stops and pushes only what was paid for.

Failure Behaviour

If Google Ads Transparency Center blocks or fails every request in a run and no ads are returned, the run ends as FAILED with the upstream error in the status message, and nothing is charged. A run that reaches Google but finds no matching ads succeeds with an empty dataset.

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Popular Integrations

• Make / n8n / Zapier: Trigger weekly competitor ad digests into Slack, Notion, Airtable, or Google Sheets.
• AI Agents & MCP Pipelines: Feed verified competitor hooks, YouTube scripts, and landing page offers straight into Claude, GPT, or Gemini creative generators.