🔍 Google Ads Scraper (Transparency Center)

Uncover any advertiser's complete Google Ads playbook in seconds. Extract every active and historical creative — videos, images, and text — directly from the official Google Ads Transparency Center into a structured dataset.

High-Speed Extraction: 200 ads in 1.7 seconds. 100% official data. Zero scraping headaches.

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⚡ Why This Scraper?

While other tools struggle with Google's complex RPC calls, this Actor speaks Google's internal API directly, providing unmatched speed and data depth.

• 🚀 Blazing Fast: Up to 120 ads/sec for listings. Built with a fully concurrent architecture.
• 🎯 Total Creative Access: Every MP4 video, image URL, text ad, and regional rollout. Nothing is hidden.
• 🌍 Global Filtering: Supports 250+ countries. Filter by region, format, or date range directly in the input.
• 💰 Cost-Efficient: Use the Skip details mode to run 4x cheaper when you only need IDs and basic metadata.
• 🛡️ Stealth & Stability: Real Chrome TLS fingerprints via curl_cffi and fresh proxy sessions per request to bypass any rate limits.
• 📦 Asset Archiving: One-click download of all previews and source files (images/videos) into the Apify Key-Value store.

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🎯 What Data You Get

Each record is a fully decoded ad creative:

• Creative Info: Format (Video, Image, Text), IDs, and Ad Transparency URLs.
• Temporal Data: First and Last shown timestamps, total active duration.
• Geo-Targeting: List of regions/countries where the ad was served.
• Assets: Direct URLs to images, video files, and HTML5 previews.
• Raw Payload: Full original JSPB payloads for advanced analysis.

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🚀 Quick Start

1. By Advertiser URL

Monitor a specific competitor by pasting their Transparency Center link:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/AR08888592736429539329" }],
    "resultsLimit": 100
}

2. By Keyword (Search)

Find top advertisers for any niche automatically:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://adstransparency.google.com/?query=nike" }],
    "resultsLimit": 50
}

3. Advanced Filtering

Target specific formats and regions directly:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://google.com" }]
}

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⚙️ Input Reference

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	-	Advertiser links, direct ad links, or keyword searches.
resultsLimit	Number	50	Max ads per advertiser. Set to 0 for unlimited.
skipDetails	Boolean	false	Speed Mode: Skips deep lookup for 4x faster runs.
downloadAssets	Boolean	false	Saves MP4/Images directly to Apify storage.
maxConcurrency	Number	10	Number of parallel requests (5-20 is optimal).

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💡 Top Use Cases

• Competitive Intelligence: Reverse-engineer your competitors' creative testing playbook.
• Market Trends: Benchmark advertising intensity and messaging across entire industries.
• Creative Swipe File: Build a library of winning ad formats for your own design team.
• Brand Protection: Detect impersonators or unauthorized resellers running ads on your brand terms.
• AI Analysis: Feed structured ad copy and metadata into LLMs for sentiment and trend analysis.

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🏗️ Under the Hood

This Actor doesn't waste resources rendering HTML. It communicates directly with Google's internal anji RPC API.

• Network Layer: Uses curl_cffi with Chrome impersonation (JA3/ALPN) to stay indistinguishable from a real browser.
• Reliability: Three independent retry budgets (cookies, search, lookup) with exponential backoff ensure the crawl continues even if individual calls fail.
• Efficiency: Processes over 5,000 ads per minute in listing-only mode.

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⚠️ Honest Limitations

• Impression Buckets: Specific platform breakdowns (YouTube vs Search) are often hidden in undocumented numeric keys in the raw payload.
• Asset Expiry: Direct image/video URLs from Google may expire over time; use downloadAssets for permanent storage.

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