Google Ads Transparency Scraper

See every ad a competitor runs on Google Search, YouTube and the Display network. Enter a website domain, an advertiser name or an advertiser ID; get back each ad's format, when it was first and last shown, how many days it has been running, the ad image or YouTube video, and a link to the ad — plus a report on each competitor's advertising.

Data comes from Google's own public Ads Transparency Center. No Google account, no API key.

What it's for

• Competitor research — see every ad a rival is running right now, and which ones they have kept running for months. An ad that runs for a year is an ad that works.
• Creative inspiration — collect the longest-running ads in your niche as a swipe file.
• YouTube ad intelligence — find the actual YouTube videos competitors pay to promote.
• Market sizing — how many ads does each player run, in which formats and countries?
• Agency pitches — show a prospect exactly what their competitors are doing on Google.

What you get for each ad

Advertiser	Name, advertiser ID, the domain the ad points to
Ad	Format (text, image, video), ad image, YouTube video link for video ads, link to the ad's page
Timing	First shown, last shown, number of days shown, still running or not
Variations	Optional: every version of the ad (different images, sizes, headlines)

Real rows from a test run:

Advertiser	Format	First shown	Days shown	Running
NIKE GLOBAL TRADING B.V.	video → youtube.com/watch?v=VA61AgGqI3I	2022-08-13	1,281	yes
Shopify Inc.	video	2026-05-26	141	yes
Booking.com	text	—	1,815	yes

The advertiser report

Every run writes an ADVERTISER_REPORT to the key-value store, one entry per competitor: Google's estimate of their total ads, ads collected, the format mix, how many are still running, the median days an ad runs, the 5 longest-running ads, the 5 newest ads, and — for a domain — every advertiser account that promotes it. From the test run:

Query	Google's estimate	Format mix (of 100)	Median days running
booking.com	15.5–15.6 million ads	100 text	1,422
temu.com	2.9–3.0 million ads	55 text, 23 video, 22 image	52
nike.com	90,000–100,000 ads (6 accounts)	85 text, 12 image, 3 video	764
Shopify	70,000–80,000 ads	60 text, 38 video, 2 image	471

Input

{
  "queries": ["nike.com", "Shopify", "AR16735076323512287233"],
  "region": "US",
  "adFormat": "video",
  "activeWithinDays": 7,
  "maxAdsPerQuery": 200
}

Field	Default	Notes
queries	—	Required. Website domains, advertiser names, advertiser IDs (AR...) or Transparency Center links. A name is matched to the advertiser with the most ads ("Nike" → "Nike, Inc.").
region	anywhere	Only ads shown in this country (60+ countries).
adFormat	all	text (Search), image (Display), video (YouTube).
activeWithinDays	—	Only ads shown in the last N days. 1 = running right now.
maxAdsPerQuery	100	Most recently shown first.
includeVideoIds	true	Find the YouTube video behind each video ad.
includeVariations	false	List every version of each ad (one extra request per ad).

Speed and cost

Measured: 500 ads for 5 competitors, with every variation, in 3 minutes. The actor talks to the Transparency Center directly and only uses a proxy if Google rate-limits a request, which keeps runs fast and cheap.

You only pay for ads you get

Queries with no ads, unknown names and mistyped domains are never written to the dataset, so they are never charged. They are listed with the reason in ADVERTISER_REPORT.failed.

Limitations

• Ad text is shown as an image. Google archives text ads as screenshots; the actor returns the screenshot, not the words.
• Responsive image ads have no single image (Google draws them from several assets), so imageUrl is empty for many image ads — open adUrl to see them.
• Impressions and spend are not published by Google for commercial ads (only for political ads in some countries).
• Google's total ad count is an estimate it shows as a range.

Legal

Reads only what Google publishes in its public Ads Transparency Center. You are responsible for how you use the data.