Google Ads Transparency: Search/YouTube/Display Ad Spy
Pricing
$0.80 / 1,000 ad scrapeds
Scrape Google's public Ad Transparency Center: every Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play ad a brand runs. Start from a keyword (auto-resolves top advertisers) or an advertiser ID. Get creative HTML, image/video URLs, dates, formats, regions. For competitor spy, agencies, ad research.
Single search query — paste an advertiser name (e.g. 'Nike') or an advertiser ID (e.g. 'AR02981058906626719745'). Strings starting with 'AR' are treated as direct IDs; everything else is resolved via the autocomplete to the top matching advertisers.
Advanced: multiple brand/advertiser names at once. Use this OR searchQuery, not both. Example: ['Nike','Adidas'].
Advertiser IDs from the Ad Transparency Center (e.g. 'AR02981058906626719745'). Skips the keyword lookup and fetches creatives directly. Find them in the URL on adstransparency.google.com.
ISO country code to filter ads by where they were shown (US, FR, GB, DE, IT, ES, CA, JP, AU, BR, MX, NL). Use 'ANYWHERE' for any region.
Advanced: Google's internal region ID (e.g. 2250 = US, 2012 = FR). Overrides the ISO mapping above when set — use this for regions the ISO mapping doesn't know yet.
Filter by Google platforms. Note: the string → numeric mapping is reverse-engineered and may need fixes — if the results don't match the platform you expect, use the numeric platformIds override below instead.
Advanced: bypass the string mapping and pass Google's internal platform integers directly (subset of [1,2,3,4,5]). Read them off the Ad Transparency Center URL when you apply a platform filter in the UI.
Only return ads of this creative format.
Only return ads shown on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for no lower bound.
Only return ads shown on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for no upper bound.
When searching by keyword, how many top matching advertisers to scrape per query (autocomplete returns ~10).
Cap on creatives per advertiser. Google's API caps at 100 per request and the public cursor isn't exposed, so values above 100 are treated as 100. For broader coverage of large advertisers, run separate queries per region.
Enable only if Google rate-limits your runs — the Ad Transparency Center API works fine from Apify datacenter IPs (free, no rate limit observed). Residential rotation is available as a fallback for high-volume runs.
