Google Ads Transparency Scraper

Pull ads from the Google Ads Transparency Center (adstransparency.google.com): Search, YouTube, Display, Shopping and Maps ads from any advertiser. Track competitors' creatives, see when ads started and stopped running, and where they ran.

Why this one

• Fast and cheap: uses the Transparency Center's own JSON endpoints. No headless browser, so runs finish in seconds and cost very little.
• Reliable: retries with a fresh proxy session, never crashes the whole run, and failed targets are reported as rows (not charged).
• Four ways to search: domain (nike.com), advertiser ID (AR...), advertiser name, or a Transparency Center URL.
• Filters: region (country), format (text / image / video), last-shown date.
• Optional details: ad text (headline, description, display URL), all image links, YouTube video links, and every region the ad ran in, with last-shown date per region.

Input example

{
  "domains": ["nike.com"],
  "searchTerms": ["Adidas"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "all",
  "maxAdsPerTarget": 200,
  "includeAdDetails": true
}

Output (one row per ad)

{
  "advertiserId": "AR16735076323512287233",
  "advertiserName": "Nike, Inc.",
  "creativeId": "CR07396437088238829569",
  "format": "IMAGE",
  "firstShown": "2024-04-05T19:34:32+00:00",
  "lastShown": "2026-10-02T23:31:25+00:00",
  "imageUrl": "https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/archive/simgad/6050699815843337416",
  "adUrl": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR16735076323512287233/creative/CR07396437088238829569?region=US",
  "region": "US",
  "estimatedTotalAds": "500-600",
  "adTextLines": ["Nike", "nike.com", "The Official Nike Site", "..."],
  "youtubeUrls": [],
  "regionsShown": [{"region": "US", "lastShown": "2026-10-02"}]
}

adTextLines, imageUrls, youtubeUrls, regionsShown and variantCount appear only with Include ad details.

Pricing

Pay per event:

• Ad — $0.0008 per ad saved.
• Ad details — $0.0004 extra per ad, only when Include ad details is on and the details were fetched.
• No start fee. Targets with no ads and failed targets are free.

Notes and limits

• Data is what Google publishes in the Transparency Center. Google does not publish spend or impressions for most ads outside political ads in some regions.
• estimatedTotalAds is Google's own range estimate for the whole query.
• Ad text comes from Google's ad preview and may contain template placeholders such as <Rating (Reviews)> for local ads.
• Region codes: 2-letter ISO country codes for ~65 major countries, or anywhere.

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