All notable changes to Google Ads Transparency are recorded here. The newest release is first.
- Docs: related Actors listed; input field descriptions clarified for AI agents.
- Fixed: the
region input now actually filters results. Verified against the live endpoint that Google's own region parameter has no effect on either SearchCreatives or GetCreativeById (the same advertiser/ad comes back identically for region=anywhere and for any specific country) — so setting region to e.g. US previously returned ads that never ran in the US. The Actor now checks each ad's real, confirmed regions list and drops (never charges for) any ad not confirmed for the requested region, automatically pulling in a replacement page when one is available. region: anywhere (the default) is unaffected.
- A search with no matches now finishes successfully (with a free
not_found row) instead of being marked failed; a run still fails when the source could not be read.
- Price lowered from $0.00299 to $0.00149 per result ($1.49 per 1,000). The start fee stays $0.005 and platform compute is still included.
Listing and settings update. The price list is unchanged.
- The free-plan note now states that the free Apify plan's $5 of monthly credit covers about 1,670 ads in a single run.
- Default run memory is now 1 GB, matching the pricing section, so a run started without a memory setting is charged one start event.
First public release.
- Search and extraction implemented against the source's own public endpoints, with no login and no third-party API key.
- Every row carries
status, so a missing record (not_found) and a failure (error) are told apart from real data. Only ok rows are charged.
- Records are validated against a schema before they are written, so an upstream change produces loud warnings instead of silently billing for empty rows.
- Callable with no arguments by an AI agent, which the input schema's defaults make safe.
- Golden tests run the extraction against saved real responses, and the Actor is verified on Apify's own infrastructure before each release.